If you do poorly on this exam and conclude that it is really the professor's fault for making the exam too hard, you are basing your explanation on
A)a primacy effect
B)the fundamental attribution error
C)a self-serving bias
D)a recency effect
E)the just world hypothesis

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This is an example of a self-serving bias, where individuals attribute their successes to internal factors (like their own abilities or effort) and their failures to external factors (such as the difficulty of the task or others' actions) to maintain a positive self-image.

If You Do Poorly on This Exam and Conclude That