Garret has a tendency to take credit for his good actions, but he attributes his mistakes to "an off day." This would be an example of:
A) the just-world hypothesis.
B) the validity effect.
C) the fundamental attribution error.
D) the self-serving bias.

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This scenario is an example of the self-serving bias, which is the tendency for individuals to take credit for their successes but attribute their failures to external factors. The just-world hypothesis is the belief that people get what they deserve, the validity effect refers to the belief that information that is repeated often is more likely to be true, and the fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for someone's behavior and underemphasize situational (external) explanations.

Garret Has a Tendency to Take Credit for His Good