Question

Whenever Jane is successful she takes full credit for her success, but whenever she is unsuccessful she attributes her failure to bad luck or blames one of her fellow employees. She is guilty of the ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Self-serving Bias.

Explanation:

Whenever Jane is successful she takes full credit for her success, but whenever she is unsuccessful she attributes her failure to bad luck or blames one of her fellow employees. She is guilty of the self-serving bias. Self-serving bias is basically perceptual or cognitive mechanism where actual information is distorted in order to maintain and increase self esteem and the capacity to see oneself as competitive and capable. People assign themselves only the positive attributes, where all the negative attributes are being assigned to others. For example, when you pass your school exams, you assign this success to your handwork, whereas, if you got failed, then you say that study was very hard and the notes were not sufficient to get passed in the exam.