Athletes often privately attribute their losses to bad officiating.This best illustrates
A) secure self-esteem.
B) the spotlight effect.
C) self-serving bias.
D) free association.

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This refers to the self-serving bias, which is the tendency to attribute successes to internal factors (such as one's own skill or effort) while attributing failures to external factors (such as bad luck or unfairness from others). In this case, the athlete is blaming bad officiating rather than acknowledging that they themselves may have played poorly.

Athletes Often Privately Attribute Their Losses to Bad Officiating