Jade has a tendency to take credit for her good actions and to rationalize her mistakes. This is called:
A) narcissism.
B) self-serving bias.
C) the fundamental attribution error.
D) the validity effect.

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Jade's tendency to take credit for her good actions and rationalize her mistakes is indicative of a self-serving bias. This bias refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal, dispositional factors (such as one's own abilities or efforts) and one's failures to external, situational factors (such as bad luck or other people's actions).

Jade Has a Tendency to Take Credit for Her Good