Explain how self-serving biases can be either beneficial or harmful to individuals
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
Answers should include:
1) Self-serving biases serve to enhance our self-esteem and protect us from negative aspects of the self; this is one beneficial aspect of self-serving biases.
2) One effect of self-serving biases is the above-average effect – we tend to believe that we are somewhat above average in most respects.
3) People tend to readily accept favorable information and discount negative information about themselves in order to protect or enhance self-esteem.
4) Women tend to have lower levels of self-esteem than do men – possibly due to social biases and prejudice. This effect is stronger in lower-class and middle-class women than it is in professional-class women.
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