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Self-Serving Attribution

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Category: Cognition

• Foundational Lexicontaking credit
• Executive Parlancesuccess internalization
• Scholarly Discourseasymmetric causal attribution
• Babel ZenithFundamental Attribution Error

  Origin: Social Psychology

Etymology & Meaning

Attributing others' behavior to character while explaining your own by situation.

In the Boardroom

'They failed due to incompetence; we failed due to market conditions.'

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