The tendency to explain our successes according to our personal abilities and attribute our failures to forces beyond our control is called ________.

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This is known as a defensive attribution or self-serving bias, where individuals protect their self-esteem by attributing successes to internal factors (such as their abilities) and failures to external factors (such as luck or circumstances).

The Tendency to Explain Our Successes According to Our Personal