The self-serving attributional bias: Beyond self-presentation

1982/01/01 by Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon · 119 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Applied psychology #Attribution #Attribution bias #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Causality (physics) #Cultural Differences and Values #Empirical research #Id, ego and super-ego #Outcome (game theory) #Perception #Presentational and representational acting #Psychology #Self evaluation #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social perception #Social psychology #Test (biology)

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-1031(82)90081-6

published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 18(1), 56-67 (Elsevier BV)

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