The Self-Serving Bias: Taking Credit, Avoiding Blame
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Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Concepts
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 12 July 2026
Suggested change
(1) "Mervin Zuckerman's 1979 meta-analysis, published in the <em>Journal of Pe..." -> "Miron Zuckerman's 1979 meta-analysis, published in the <em>Journal of Per..." (2) "the most-cited single statistic in the self-serving bias literature: 93 perce..." -> "the most-cited single statistic in the self-serving bias literature: 94 perce..." (3) "In 1998, researchers Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, then at the University o..." -> "In 2000, researchers Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, then at the University o..."
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