Question

When Jamie's business was doing well he attributed the success to his leadership skills, creativity, and dedication. When the business started experiencing a fall in revenue, he blamed it on the declining economy and political instability. In this scenario, Jamie's behavior best illustrates:

a. stereotyping tendency.
b. fundamental attribution error.
c. self-serving bias.
d. primacy error.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C

Step-by-step explanation:

Self serving bias is the term which is described as the tendency of the people in order to attribute the positive events to their own character but also attribute the negative events to the external factors.

Therefore, the business of the Jamie was doing well, he attributed the success to his creativity, dedication and leadership skills but when the business experience the fall in the revenue then he blamed the economy, this behavior is illustrates with the self serving bias.