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When Madison was hired in her dream job, she told her friends that her hard work had paid off, but when she was skipped over for a promotion, she tells her friends that her colleagues are preventing her from getting her work done. Madison is displaying: the self-serving bias. social comparison. self-evaluative maintenance. the better-than-average effect.?

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When Madison was hired in her dream job, she told her friends that her hard work had paidoff, but when she was skipped over for a promotion, she tells her friends that her colleagues are preventing her from getting her work done. Madison is displaying: the self-serving bias.

The self-serving bias is people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. It's a common type of cognitive bias that has been extensively studied in social psychology

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