Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors. It's a common type of cognitive bias that has been extensively studied in social psychology.
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The tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics (personality) to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation rather than considering the situation's external factors.
Defensive Attribution: A psychological term referring to how people distance themselves from individuals who have experienced misfortune or crime, based on fears and insecurities about their own safety.
This refers to our tendency to attribute our own actions to external causes while attributing other people’s behaviors to their internal characteristics.