The Self-Serving Bias: Taking Credit, Avoiding Blame
In 1964, Johnson, Feigenbaum, and Weiby gave teachers feedback on a student's performance. When the student improved, teachers attributed it to...
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The three named corrections were correctly applied to their primary sentences, but a same-fact leftover mention of the stale 93% figure remained further down in the body text, the Barber & Odean citation was entirely missing from the bibliography despite being discussed twice in-text, and the FAQ field contained two separate fabrication clusters restating the same errors (Cross/Svenson conflation with wrong percentages, and an unverified Odean 1999 investor study). All were corrected and the FAQ field was re-verified to still decode to a valid 5-item array after the fix.
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