TY - GEN A1 - Krahé, Barbara T1 - Zum Stand der Diskussion um den "self-serving bias" in der Attributionsforschung N2 - The 'fact or fiction1 controversy about self-serving attributional biases is discussed under two aspects: a) The lack of a clear conceptual definition of "bias" referring to cognitive models of causal attribution which specify unbiased, rational modes of causal inference; b) The empirical evidence with regard to the decision whether attributional distortions are due to self-protective and self-enhancing motives rather than errors and biases in information processing. It is concluded that progress in self-serving bias research is conditional upon a theoretical clarification and operational definition of self-serving biases explicitly derived from a rational standard of causal inference and based on a motivational analysis of the functions of causal attributions. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 183 Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4331 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-45286 ER -