Which of the following statements is most closely associated with the self-serving bias?
A) "Everything good that happens to me is because of my friends and family."
B) "The universe has a plan for me, so I just go with the flow."
C) "I am much more likely to fail than to succeed."
D) "My successes are deserved, but my failures are not my fault."
E) "Teamwork makes the world go around."

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The self-serving bias is our tendency to attribute our successes to stable, internal causes and our failures to unstable, external causes. Such attributions are self-serving because they suggest that our successes are deserved but our failures are not our fault.

Which of the Following Statements Is Most Closely Associated with the Self-Serving