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Social Biases

Impact level

2 / 5

Category Social Biases

Impact 2 / 5

SOCIAL BIASES

Self-Serving
Bias

The tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

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Cognitive processing

System 1 (fast, intuitive). Biases often lean on quick judgments (System 1) unless you slow down and analyze (System 2).

Evidence & time

Evidence strength: experimental. Typical read: about 4 min.

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Practical steps for Self-Serving Bias

1
Practice self-compassion and objective analysis
medium effectivenesshard difficulty

Tape this to your desk.

02

Common triggers

Receiving feedback

Experiencing failure

03

Typical contexts

Sports

Academic performance

Workplace

04

Mitigation strategies

Practice self-compassion and objective analysis

Effectiveness: medium

Difficulty: hard

05

Potential decision harms

Failure to learn from mistakes

major Severity

Interpersonal conflict

moderate Severity