<h2><u>Self-serving bias</u> tends to be caused by a desire to protect an individual’s self-esteem.
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Explanation:
- Self-serving bias is a conceptual perception where a person attributes oneself for his/her own successes to his/her own efforts, hard work, intelligence etc., but blame others or other situations for any failures.
- It acts as a defensive mechanism to protect an individual’s self-esteem.
- This makes a person to favor oneself more, attribute only positive events to self, boost self confidence, feel proud about self; at the same time, blaming others or luck or other situations for failures is simply done to protect one’s self-esteem.
- This behavior will make a person to move away from one’s responsibilities or cannot accept mistakes or failures and detrimental to one’s personal behavior and relationships as well as any learning outcome.
- For eg., a student praising oneself for his/her success in an exam but blaming the teacher or the question paper for failure in another exam
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The following describes the cause of obesity as a lack of energy balance: more energy in than out=weight gain. Correct answer: A In most people obesity is caused by eating too much and moving too little. If high amounts of energy is consumed and you do not burn off the energy through exercise and physical activity, this will result in obesity.
