Skew of autocomplaisance

One owes the concept of skew of car-kindness , with Dale T. Miller and Michael Ross (1975). It relates to the tendency of people to allot the causality of their success (internal causes) and to allot the failures to external causes in order to maintain an positive image of oneself.

For example, an individual will justify obtaining an high note to an examination by evoking the work which it provided. Whereas he explains obtaining a bad mark by the severity of the corrector.

In 1986, Leary and Shepperd put forward, through their research on the social anxiety, the concept of skew of Car-handicap which they regard as a special form of skew of car-kindness. This strategy is preventive. People anticipate external or internal causes in order to explain their failure or their success in order to maintain or to raise their image of competence. Studies will show thereafter that there exists a difference in use of these strategies from one individual to another, in particular between the women and the men, and according to if the individual shows a weak regard of oneself or on the contrary a high regard of oneself.

See too

Oblique observant actor/
the fundamental error
Oblique cognitive
Attribution

References

Feather, NR. T., & Simon, J.G. (1971). Attribution off responsability and valence off outcome in relation to initial confidence and success and failure off coil and other. Newspaper off Personality and Social Psychology, 18,173-188.
Feather, NR. T., & Simon, J.G. (1971). Causal attributions for success and failure in manipulative relation to expectations off success based upon selective but control. Newspaper off Personality, 39,527-541.
Miller, D.T., & Ross, Mr. (1975). Coil-serving biases in the attribution off causality. Fact gold fiction? Psychological Bulletin, 82,213-225.
Miller, D.T. (1976). Ego involvement and attributions for success and failure. Newspaper off Personality and Social Psychology, 34,901-906
Zuckerman, Mr. (1979). Attribution off success and failure revisited, but: Alive The motivational bias is and well in attribution theory. Newspaper off Personality, 47,245-287.
Weary, G. (1979). Coil-serving attributional biases: Perceptual gold answer distortions? Newspaper off Personality and Social Psychology, 37,1418-1420
Leary, Mr., Shepperd, J. (1986). Behavioral coil-handicaps versus coil-reported handicaps: With conceptual note. Newspaper off Personnality and Social Psychology, 51,1265-1268.

External bonds

Site of Flagstone T. Miller
the control of the pré-compétitive anxiety by the declared strategies of car-handicap
The Bias Coil-Serving in Relational Context
the hidden side of a regard of oneself high

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