Self-serving biases and public justifications in trust games

An Experimental Investigation of Self-Serving Biases in an Auditing Trust Game: The Effect of Group Affiliation: Discussion

Clarifying The Self-Serving Bias

In their article “Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases”, (JEP, Winter 1997), Babcock and Loewenstein (hereafter BL) invoke the notion of selfserving biases to account for behavior in a rich variety of settings, for instance, the failure to reach an agreement in laboratory bargaining games, the behavior of job searchers, and the discrepancy between plaintiffs’ and defen...

Analysis of the Structural Relationship between the Organizational Trust with the Self-Efficiency and Professional Ethics among Nurses

Introduction: Improvement of the organizational trust has a special importance at workplace which can affect the attitude of the employees. Thus, the present study was conducted to examine the effect of organizational trust on the self-efficacy and professional ethics levels among nurses in public hospitals of Tehran, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was carried out on 372 ...

UvA - DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Honesty requires time ( and lack of justifications )

Recent research suggests refraining from cheating in tempting situations requires self-control, indicating serving self-interest is an automatic tendency. However, evidence also suggests people cheat to the extent that they can justify their unethical behavior to themselves. To merge these different lines of research, we adopt a dual-system approach that distinguishes between the intuitive and ...

The narcissistic teammate: effects of narcissistic subtypes on self-serving attributional biases

The self-serving attributional bias in collaborative group efforts is the tendency for individuals to take more personal responsibility for the group’s success and less personal responsibility for the group’s failure. Much previous research has linked narcissism with self-serving behavior. Narcissism can be broken down into the grandiose subtype, characterized by superiority and entitlement, an...