Whenever Jane is successful she takes full credit for her success, but whenever she is unsuccessful she attributes her failure to bad luck or blames one of her fellow employees. She is guilty of the ________.

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Jane is exhibiting self-serving bias, which is the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors (such as one's own abilities) and one's failures to external factors (such as bad luck or other people's actions). Option A, fundamental attribution error, refers to the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for others' behavior while overlooking situational (external) factors. Option B, attribution bias, is a general term referring to any type of bias in the attribution process. Option C, confirmation bias, refers to the tendency to seek out information that confirms one's existing beliefs or hypotheses. Option D, distinction bias, is not a recognized term in psychology.

Whenever Jane Is Successful She Takes Full Credit for Her