This document discusses self-serving bias and gender differences in attribution. It notes that self-serving bias is the tendency to take credit for success but blame failures on external factors. This stems from cognitive biases and the motivational need to protect self-esteem. There are also gender differences found in attribution, with females generally having lower expectations for success and attributing outcomes more externally, while males emphasize ability and internal causes more. Females also tend to have a more "pessimistic" attributional style compared to the more "optimistic" style of males.
This document discusses self-serving bias and gender differences in attribution. It notes that self-serving bias is the tendency to take credit for success but blame failures on external factors. This stems from cognitive biases and the motivational need to protect self-esteem. There are also gender differences found in attribution, with females generally having lower expectations for success and attributing outcomes more externally, while males emphasize ability and internal causes more. Females also tend to have a more "pessimistic" attributional style compared to the more "optimistic" style of males.
This document discusses self-serving bias and gender differences in attribution. It notes that self-serving bias is the tendency to take credit for success but blame failures on external factors. This stems from cognitive biases and the motivational need to protect self-esteem. There are also gender differences found in attribution, with females generally having lower expectations for success and attributing outcomes more externally, while males emphasize ability and internal causes more. Females also tend to have a more "pessimistic" attributional style compared to the more "optimistic" style of males.
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situation. Attribute our own positive outcome to internal cause but negative ones to external factors. Cognitive : stems mainly from certain tendencies in the way we process social information. Motivational : stems from our need to protect and enhance our self-esteem . Causes of the self-serving bias • Need to maintain and strengthen in self-esteem. • One’s perceptions of how ourself perceived by others. • To get praise from others about our achievement. Aspects of Differences Gender • Sex biological characteristics. • Gender the psychological experience of being male or female. • Gender identity One’s view of oneself as male or female. • Gender role the behaviors consistent with being male or female in a given culture. • Sexual orientation the tendency to prefer romantic and sexual partners of the same or different sex. Differences gender in attributions The highly consisten finding for females of all ages to have lower initial expectancies for success than males . Girls and young women consistently demonstrate lower expectations for success than boys and young men. Relevant data indicate that females of all ages are more likely than males to attribute their success to unstable and external factors such as luck and task ease. Gender differences in causal attribution and emotions for imagined success and failure. Women display a less self-enchancing pattern of casual attributions than men. Women been found to attribute successful outcomes more externally. For failures, males see internal causes as less important than do female. Males made stronger ability attributions for success. Females emphasized the importance of studying and paying attention. Males more than females attributed failure to a lack of studying and low interest, but females were more likely than males to blame an F on a lack of ability. • Theorized that individuals possess a traitlike characteristic known as an attributional style. Females more likely to possess a “ pessimistic” Males more likely to possess an “ optimistic” • Some of the research suggests that women display a less self- enhancing pattern of causal attribution than men.