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Among friends? An examination of friendship and the self‐serving bias
Author(s) -
Campbell W. Keith,
Sedikides Constantine,
Reeder Glenn D.,
Elliot Andrew J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1348/014466600164444
Subject(s) - friendship , psychology , social psychology , test (biology) , attribution , interdependence , creativity , developmental psychology , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Do friends bound each other's self‐enhancement tendencies? Do friends display the self‐serving bias (SSB; i.e. taking individual credit for success but blaming a partner for failure)? Dyads consisting of either friends or strangers engaged in an interdependent‐outcomes creativity test, received bogus success or failure feedback at the dyadic level, and made responsibility attributions for the joint test performance. Strangers displayed the SSB. Friends, in contrast, refrained from the SSB: they shared responsibility for both successful and unsuccessful test outcomes. Friendship does place boundaries on self‐enhancement.