self-serving bias
/ˌself ˌsɜːrvɪŋ ˈbaɪəs/
attributing success to oneself and failure to external factors
self-serving bias in a sentence
“Self-serving bias: 'I aced it because I'm smart; I failed because the test was unfair.'”
Origin of self-serving bias
Old English self + Latin servire to serve
Related Words
optimism bias
believing oneself less likely to experience negative events
illusory superiority
overestimating one's qualities relative to others
spotlight effect
overestimating how much others notice your appearance or behavior
egocentric bias
overweighting one's own perspective
self-enhancement
the tendency to describe oneself more positively than warranted
naive realism
believing one sees the world objectively while others are biased