Advik,a 15-year-old,believes that the winning team in the intra-school quiz competition won because the members knew the answers to the quiz questions beforehand.He convinces himself that they performed better than his team because they cheated.In the context of the cognitive sources of prejudice,Advik's belief illustrates ________.

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Advik's belief that the winning team cheated and his own team's loss was due to unfair means demonstrates a group-serving bias, which is a cognitive source of prejudice. Group-serving bias is the tendency to view one's own group (in this case, Advik's team) as superior and attribute failures to external factors like cheating by the other team.

Advik,a 15-Year-Old,believes That the Winning Team in the Intra-School Quiz