Blaming Luck, Claiming Skill: Self-Attribution Bias in Error Assignment
Naoyuki Okamoto, Michael Taylor, Takatomi Kubo, Shin Ishii, Benedetto De Martino, Aurelio Cortese
The paper investigates self-attribution bias in error assignment using a visuomotor task, finding that participants credit successes to skill and blame failures on luck, influenced by distorted self-perception and positivity bias.
PLoS Computational Biology · Dec 16, 2025Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition