The Self‐serving Bias and Beliefs about Rationality
通过排除策略行为的实验设计,测量人们对他人理性程度的信念是否存在自利偏差,发现支持该偏差的证据非常有限,并讨论了自利偏差与自我挫败偏差的区别。
Most previous experiments attempting to establish the existence of the self‐serving bias have confounded it with strategic behavior. We design an experiment that controls for strategic behavior (Haman effects) and isolates the bias itself. The self‐serving bias that we measure concerns beliefs about the rationality of others. We find very limited support for the existence of the bias. To help understand why the bias seems to hold in some settings but not in others, we discuss a distinction between biases that are self‐serving and those that are actually self‐defeating.