PSY325H5 Lecture 3: Lecture 3- Self-Evaluation Motivations 2: Self-Verification, Self-Improvement, & Self-Assessment]
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Self serving bias: to attribute positive outcomes to one"s internal disposition but negative outcomes to others or factors beyond one"s control, claim credit for success but deny responsibility for failure, occurs in public and private, moral transgression can also follow, breaking up. Integrity and quality of an outcome is compromised in order that the meaning of that outcome appears more agreeable: though maintaining positive self views, has the cost of impairing objective performance, underperformance relative to aptitude, ultimately preparation is the key, not in tuned with reality, effect of self enhancement. Ironically, when informed of the existence of such illusions, people generally consider themselves to be less prone to them than others: above average effect, highly robust effect, even when the criteria on which the self and others are judged are identical the self is still perceived more favourably, ex.
