Question

Is the self serving bias adaptive or maladaptive?

Answer 1

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Our tendency to attribute positive outcomes of our behavior to internal, dispositional
factors and negative outcomes to external, situational forces.

Examples of Self-Serving Bias

- Businesspeople rate themselves as more ethical than the average businessperson.
- Drivers rate themselves to be safer than the average driver.
- People rate themselves as more intelligent than the average person.
- Divorced people blamed the other for the marital discord.


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Answer 2

 Self-serving bias is a by- product of how we process and Adaptive Protects people from depression.