The Westlake Hills Little League team just lost a game.According to research on attribution biases, right after the game, the Westlake Hills coach is likely to say,

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The coach is exhibiting a self-serving bias by attributing the loss to the opponents playing better rather than the team's own mistakes or shortcomings. Option A is an example of a self-effacing bias, option B is an example of an attribution to internal factors, and option D is an example of a negative outcome that is not necessarily related to attribution biases.

The Westlake Hills Little League Team Just Lost a Game