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	Self-serving bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Self-serving bias may result in bargaining impasse if each side interprets the facts of the dispute in their own favor.
		Group-serving bias is a similar bias on the group level.
		A bias is a statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others (see Bias (statistics)).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Self-serving_bias (457 words)

	Group-serving bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Group-serving bias is identical to self-serving bias except that it takes place between groups rather than individuals, under which group members make dispositional attributions for their group's successes and situational attributions for group failures, and vice versa for outsider groups.
		For instance, the fundamental attribution error is a self-serving bias, while the group attribution error is a group-serving bias.
		Perhaps the most basic form of group-serving bias is ingroup bias.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Group-serving_bias (116 words)

	Bias blind spot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pronin and her co-authors explained to subjects the better-than-average effect, the halo effect, self-serving bias and many other cognitive biases.
		According to that better-than-average bias, specifically, people are likely to see themselves as inaccurately "better than average" for possible positive traits and "less than average" for negative traits.
		The bias blind spot is a cognitive bias about not compensating for one's own cognitive biases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bias_blind_spot (205 words)

	List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality (see also cognitive distortion).
		Some of these have been verified empirically in the field of
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases (205 words)

	Group attribution error - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Group members are more likely to attribute a fellow group member's actions to their arbitrary circumstances, while attributing a non-group member's actions to something in that group's inherent disposition.
		The group attribution error was first reported by
		This page was last modified 17:33, 30 Oct 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Group_attribution_error (205 words)

	Group-serving bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Group-serving bias is identical to self-serving bias except that it takes place between groups rather than individuals, under which group members make dispositional attributions for their group's successes and situational attributions for group failures, and vice versa for outsider groups.
		For instance, the fundamental attribution error is a self-serving bias, while the group attribution error is a group-serving bias.
		Perhaps the most basic form of group-serving bias is
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Group-serving_bias (205 words)

	Social Psychology Portfolio - Self-Serving Bias
		I chose this particular comic not only because it demonstrates the self-serving bias well, but also for the way it incorporates the mirror and Bongo's self-awareness.
	home.rochester.rr.com /boggess/allyson/social/social5.htm (49 words)

	Self-Serving Attributional Bias
		In this Calvin and Hobbes excerpt, Calvin illustrates the self-serving attributional bias.
		In this comic strip, Calvin illustrates the self-serving attributional bias that pertains to the latter situation.
		In general, the self-serving attributional bias indicates that people tend to take credit for their successes and deny responsibility for their failures.
	cbest.web.wesleyan.edu /pia3_spring2000_006.htm (175 words)

	Definition of Groupthink
		This results in a situation in which the group ultimately agrees on an action which each member might normally consider to be unwise.
		One mechanism which management consultants recommend to avoid groupthink is to place responsibility and authority for a decision in the hands of a single person who can turn to others for advice.
		Janis' original definition of the term was "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action." The word groupthink was intended to be reminiscent of
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Groupthink (175 words)

	Outgroup homogeneity bias - LEX-24
		Interestingly, this bias was found to be unrelated to the number of group and non-group members individuals knew.
		The outgroup homogeneity bias was found between groups such as "men" and "women" who obviously interact frequently.
		According to the outgroup homogeneity bias, individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.
	www.lex-24.de /en/Top/Outgroup_homogeneity_bias (175 words)

	Social Behavior and Personality: Does self-serving bias cancel the Barnum effect
		It appears that the self-serving bias is powerful enough to cancel the usual Barnum effect, in which subjects typically show marked gullibility for statements about themselves.
		However, in relative terms the data also directly support the self-serving bias theory, since significantly higher ratings were given to the positive (or neutral) than to the negative traits.
		In the present study, a high level of acceptance for positive traits only would indicate that self-serving bias is more powerful than the Barnum effect and - in effect - can replace it.
	newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_qa3852/is_200201/ai_n9028989 (1448 words)

	Learning Module
		This perception, called a self-serving bias, is common to Western culture and has been deemed a healthy one, given the evidence obtained in numerous experiments testing the phenomenon.
		A self-serving bias is when an individual thinks overly positively about him/herself (overly positive self-assessment) and believes that the most positive outcomes will happen to him/her, and is truly surprised by any negative outcome.
		Given the fact that these studies show that those subjects with the most self-serving biases (defensive optimism, so to speak) are generally the healthiest (emotionally), I submit that Adler has a very valid point in considering the avoiding lifestyle mistaken and defensive pessimism to be a truly negative perspective.
	www.psych.upenn.edu /~drw/Contribs/c40.html (430 words)

	RESEARCH ON SELF-SERVING BIASES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: THE IMPACT OF DECEPTION
		A self-serving bias is a tendency to attribute success to oneself and failures to external factors--even when this causal asymmetry is not warranted.
		Controversy, then, centres on why a self-serving bias appears in some studies and a counterdefensive bias in other studies, and whether these attributional biases are genuine biases or realistic attributional processing in the artificial experimental context.
		Most studies reporting self serving or counterdefensive biases have been deceptive experiments in which participants have been given false success or false failure feedback as a basis for making attributions.
	www.aare.edu.au /99pap/law99455.htm (4465 words)

	Attributional bias - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The most well-known and representative example of an attributional bias is the fundamental attribution error.
		Attributional biases are cognitive biases which affect attribution -- the way we determine who or what was responsible for an event or action.
		Attributional bias, References, External links, Cognitive biases and Attitude attribution.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Attributional_bias (286 words)

	Research: Self-Deception: "Talk About the Pot Calling the Kettle Defensive": Interpersonal Attributions of Defensiveness
		The present study consisted of two experiments: Experiment 1 investigated the possibility that systematic differences exist in self- and other-attributions of defensiveness (e.g., self-serving bias); Experiment 2 examined whether self-attributions of defensiveness are influenced by interpersonal context.
		In Experiment 1, 22 pairs of undergraduate participants interviewed one another regarding their "worst failure." The self- and other-attributions of defensiveness of the participants following the interview did not differ significantly, indicating the absence of a self-serving bias.
		Pairs of participants were told that they were participating in a study on interviewing style, in which they would interview one another about their "worst failure." Each participant served as interviewer for half the session and was interviewed during the other half.
	www.faculty.sfasu.edu /gford/apssdatt.htm (1327 words)

	Research: Self-Serving Attributions
		Whereas isolated individuals tend to attribute positive outcomes to themselves and deny responsibility for negative outcomes (the self- serving bias), group members often display a group-serving bias: they attribute success to the group and blame failures on external factors.
		First, a number of researchers feel that these attributional asymmetries are self- serving: when people succeed they can increase their confidence and sense of personal worth by attributing their performance to internal, personal, or dispositional factors.
		Fourth, if externalization after failure insulates the self, then we should be able to find evidence of some benefit to the self among individuals who do display this tendency.
	www.has.vcu.edu /psy/faculty/fors/ratt2.html (2258 words)

	ieb2.doc
		If neither self-serving bias nor ideological bias explain their disagreements, it is natural to return to the default hypothesis: Economic training helps eliminate the systematic misconceptions almost everyone has prior to their exposure to economics.
		This is not to say that self-serving bias produces radical belief differences within the population, only that the control variables sometimes have a detectable impact.
		Self-Serving Bias and Economists' Beliefs Even though people who are rich, getting richer, and/or male think more like economists than others, controlling for self-serving bias does not come close to eliminating the apparent impact of economic training.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/ieb2.doc (7923 words)

	UNESCO Conference on INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
		Through this study, it is possible to enlighten and make the trainees aware of how they (trough their intra-group favouritism and the correlative self-serving bias) favoured their own group, as well as themselves, and in what way they disfavoured other groups, their members and their behaviours.
		After this activity, self- and group-reflexion about the experience, and about the way those issues are seen then, and how they were faced before the training, take place.
		The next session is completely dedicated, in first place, to a brief theoretical explanation of issues on minorities, discrimination, stereotypes and prejudices and, secondly, to an exercise of group-dynamic, in which those issues are dealt with.
	www.jyu.fi /ktl/unesco2003/tiivistelma/1A-85.htm (396 words)

	Fundamental Attribution Bias
		Motitvation: The self-serving bias is a motivational bias.
		Purpose: As it applies to the self-serving bias, the experimenters judged the descrepancy between actual and reported SAT scores, as well as the reactions of those who had low SAT scores.
		When low scoring students were asked about the SAT they cited that the test was invalid as a predictor of college performance (even though it is) and that the score in general were inaccurate.
	www.southwestern.edu /~waldenl/selfserving.html (498 words)

	Form Feedback Inbox for /~dmyers/testfor/formtestsp1.html
		He is justifying his grades with the: a) focus of attention bias b) self serving bias c) linguistic intergroup bias d) confirmatory bias 2) Joe is both a tutor and a college football player.
		The perceptions of one's self as a son or daughter at home and a student while at college are completely different.
		When a component of the actual self is the opposite of a component of the ideal self, there existss a _____________.
	www.nd.edu /cgi-bin/inbox.cgi/~dmyers/testfor/formtestsp1.html (15277 words)

	Self-Esteem
		A person’s stable sense of self is often referred to as baseline self-esteem, while the fluctuating sense of self is called barometric self-esteem.
		The more attributes and activities one ascribes to the self, the more resistant to degradation the self is. For example, if one’s self-esteem is made up of 7 main elements, and any one of those takes a solid hit, self-esteem will be significantly impacted.
		However, if one has 30 elements to the self, then a hit on any one of them is going to have a wider buffer.
	www.campaugusta.org /html/self-esteem.html (3058 words)

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		At the end of the class period prior to the one in which you'll introduce the self-serving bias, tell students that during the next class you will be talking about the self-concept and that you want to collect some data to use in that discussion.
		Dunn (1989) notes that students often have trouble recognizing the self-serving attributional bias in their own behavior, especially when it extends beyond the internal-external dimension related to success and failure on a particular task.
		You can then use these results to generate a discussion of the self-serving bias, including the processes that might contribute to its occurrence and its potential positive and/or negative effects on behavior.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/morris2/chapter15/medialib/demo/2.html (301 words)

	Social Behavior and Personality: Culture moderates the self-serving bias: Etic and Emic features of causal attributions in India and in Canada
		The cross-cultural studies addressing the self-serving bias are quite varied in the measures used to assess the bias, and thus in the operational definitions of the bias.
		Another problem in cross-cultural studies of the self-serving bias has been the issue of the "rival hypothesis." For example, Lee and Seligman (1997) asserted that the contextual causes invoked more often in collectivist than individual cultures are an indication of the antithesis or the non-universality of the self-serving bias.
		In reviewing the literature, a number of possible "moderator" variables that potentially influence the self-serving bias were identified, not all of which are accounted for in cross-cultural studies.
	newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_qa3852/is_200101/ai_n8948656 (1266 words)

	SFB504 Working papers
		These effects were interpreted in terms of self-serving or in-group serving functions of the hindsight bias: Participants deny the foreseeability of a self-threatening outcome as a means of self-protection even if they are not personally affected by the negative information, but a member of their group.
		Two experiments will be presented that show a reduction or even reversal of the hindsight bias when the outcome information is self-threatening for the participants.
		Female participants, who did not accept rape myths and perceived themselves highly similar to the victim, showed a strong reversed hindsight bias, when threatened by the rape outcome, whereas female participants, who did believe in rape myth and were not similar to the victim, showed a classical hindsight bias.
	www.sfb504.uni-mannheim.de /wp/abstract.php3?id=332 (1266 words)

	Crisp Volume 5 No. 7
		The research presented in the current investigation was conducted in order to assess the relationship between group serving attributional biases and self-evaluation.
		Attributions of this type may be group serving to the extent that participants make (a) more internal, stable, global and personally controllable attributions for ingroup success than ingroup failure and/or (b) more internal, stable, global and personally controllable attributions for outgroup failure than outgroup success.
		Often, however, the attributions made by social category members are group serving in so far as they tend to favor members of the ingroup over the outgroup (see Hewstone, 1990; Hunter, Stringer, Miller and Watson, 1994 for reviews).
	www.uiowa.edu /~grpproc/crisp/crisp.5.7.htm (1266 words)

	Crisp Volume 4 No. 9
		Although, group serving attributional biases tend to occur on some dimensions and not others in a particular study, as Hewstone demonstrates, its effects are clearly evident in three spheres: positive and negative outcomes, successes and failures, and group differences.
		In terms of the three spheres of group serving attributional biases outlined by Hewstone (1990), however, only that pertaining to positive and negative outcomes will be used in the present study.
		Nevertheless, the lack of any meaningful relationship between attributional bias and evaluation of group identity indicates that, in this real world context, the strategy of enhanced discrimination exhibited by the members of the lower status Catholic category is an ineffective way of achieving a positive group identity.
	www.uiowa.edu /~grpproc/crisp/crisp.4.9.htm (1266 words)

	Serving Platter
		Self-serving bias may simply be a form of wishful thinking 5: Self-serving bias may result in bargaining impasse if each 9: Group-serving bias is a similar bias on the group level.
		Self-serving bias 1: '''Self-serving bias''' occurs when people are more likely to cla 3: ce, it may be labeled self-handicapping.
		Basic serving arrangement 1: In telecommunication, the term '''basic serving arrangement''' (BSA) has the following meanings: 5: the connection from the ESP to the central office serving its customers or to capabilities associated with
	www.witchware.com /File/48254-Serving.Platter.Html (415 words)

	The Self-Serving Bias in Children - Psi Chi
		In this study of self-serving bias, 20 male and 16 female second graders completed an academic task with a same-sex partner.
		Nonfriends in the failure group were more likely to exhibit the self-serving bias.
		Results showed a significant interaction between the type of relationship between the partners and the type of feedback they received.
	www.psichi.org /pubs/articles/article_417.asp (119 words)

	Psychological Science : Chapter 13: Home
		At least some of the developing sense of self appears to be related to the maturation of the frontal lobes.
		The beginning of this sense of self appears to begin at around 18 months with the recognition of self as distinct from others.
		Our symbolic self seems to be the uniquely human capacity to form an abstract mental representation of oneself through language.
	www.wwnorton.com /psychsci/ch13_overview.htm (947 words)

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