Our inclination to take credit for the positive and blame others for the negative is called
A) self-serving bias.
B) fundamental attribution error.
C) implicit personality theory.
D) altercasting.

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The description best matches the concept of self-serving bias, which refers to the tendency to attribute our successes to internal factors (such as personal abilities) and our failures to external factors (such as bad luck or someone else's mistake).

Our Inclination to Take Credit for the Positive and Blame