The self-serving bias is the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors on another person's behavior and to overestimate the influence of internal factors.

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The self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute one's own successes to internal factors and one's failures to external factors, not the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors on another person's behavior and overestimate the influence of internal factors. The description given matches the fundamental attribution error.

The Self-Serving Bias Is the Tendency to Underestimate the Influence