In which of the following instances might you have committed the self-serving bias?
A) You are quick to attribute your friend's behaviors to internal, stable causes.
B) You say that your co-worker's successes are due only to blind luck.
C) You say that most everything your roommate does is the result of his being an only child.
D) You attribute all your failures to external, unstable causes.

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The self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute our successes to internal, stable causes and failures to external, unstable causes. Option D fits this definition as the individual is attributing all their failures to external, unstable causes.

In Which of the Following Instances Might You Have Committed