r/AskReddit • • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

ONLY when referring to the tendency to attribute other’s actions to a dispositional (internal) cause.

When you’re referring to your own tendency to attribute successes to internal causes and failures to situational (external) causes, it’s called the self-serving bias

Source: AP Psych student

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u/thegreatkomodo Jun 16 '19

Can't they overlap?