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Participants were key decision makers behind the idea to trial the 100:80:100 model, and their responses are potentially open to attribution bias and self-serving bias.
“participants in this study were also key decision makers behind the idea to trial the 100:80:100 model, and their responses are potentially open to attribution bias and self-serving bias (Miller, 1976)”
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Individuals who experience success assign greater responsibility to internal factors and less to external factors than do individuals who experience failure.
“The one highly consistent finding has been that individuals who experience success assign greater responsibility to factors within themselves (e.g., internal factors, such as ability) and less responsibility to factors outside themselves (e.g., external factors, such as luck) than do individuals who experience failure”
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“…decision makers behind the idea to trial the 100:80:100 model, and their responses are potentially open to attribution bias and self-serving bias (Miller, 1976), in particular, meaning they may attribute positive outcomes to their own work and ideas while blaming any negative outcomes on…”
- Authors
- Miller, D. T.
- Affiliations
- Western University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Miller, Dale T.
- ORCID
- Miller, Dale T.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1976-11
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 901-906
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2070561752
- Cited by
- 337
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 19.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- ego-involvement, self-attribution, success, failure, attribution theory, self-concept
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