The self-serving bias is the tendency to
a. credit our successes to internal, dispositional factors and our failures to external, situational influences.
b. describe our successes in greater detail than our failures.
c. repeat ourselves when we think we're right.
d. take care of our own needs first, and worry about others later.
A
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