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[QUOTE="LombardiStix, post: 1461552, member: 23031"]
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]The following is an excerpt about a psychological bias which is a common human attribute. Whenever I hear people talk about their poker confidence and whine about how they never win because of “bad luck” this is what I think about. It is rare to see people say I lost because I made a bad move... always “bad luck” or an “outside factor beyond their control”.

A [B]self-serving bias[/B] occurs when people attribute their successes to internal or personal factors but attribute their failures to situational factors beyond their control. The self-serving bias can be seen in the common human tendency to take credit for success but to deny responsibility for failure.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias#cite_note-millerross-0"][1][/URL] It may also manifest itself as a tendency for people to evaluate ambiguous information in a way that is beneficial to their interests. Self-serving bias may be associated with the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority"]better-than-average effect[/URL], in which the individual is biased to believe that he or she typically performs better than the average person in areas important to their self esteem.
  
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