On Seeing Oneself as Less Self-Serving than Others: The Ultimate Self-Serving Bias?

A common form of self-serving bias in judgment is the tendency for people to see themselves as being better than average in terms of socially desirable qualities, particularly those that are defined subjectively and that have ethical or moral overtones. A logical implication of this tendency is that...

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