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​manny coaches a team of 10-year-old boys in baseball. when they lost to their archrivals by a score of 7-2, the boys complained that the umpire was not fair and that they would have won if they had played on their home field. this is an example of ____.

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Based on the scenario above, this is an example of group serving bias. A group serving bias is where an individual has a tendency to attribute the success of his or her group based on the efforts that they exerted and that the failures are likely to from the interference of the outside.

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