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group-serving bias

group-serving bias

any one of a number of cognitive tendencies that contribute to an overvaluing of one’s group, particularly the tendency to credit the group for its successes but to blame external factors for its failures. Also called sociocentric bias. Compare self-serving bias. See also ultimate attribution error; ingroup bias.

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