Review and reflect upon past decisions: Regularly assess your decision-making processes and outcomes to identify patterns of attribution bias and make adjustments accordingly.Develop a growth mindset: Embrace the idea that failure and setbacks can be opportunities for learning and growth, rather than solely attributing them to external factors.Empathy: Practice putting yourself in other people’s shoes to better understand their motivations, circumstances, and perspectives.Seek feedback from others: Ask for input from others, especially from experts in a particular field, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of events or actions, and to challenge your own assumptions. Individuals tend to credit their successes to internal factors, such as skills or abilities, while blaming external or situational factors.Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like fundamental attribution error, actor-observer effect, Self-Serving Bias (Self-Serving Attributional Bias) and more. Avoid jumping to conclusions based on limited information. A theory of attribution asserting that people rely on consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness of information when assigning causes for events. Analyze situations objectively, and weigh various factors that may have contributed to an outcome.

Consider alternative explanations: Be willing to consider alternative explanations for events or actions, some of which may be quite nuanced or complex, rather than defaulting to simplistic or self-serving attributions.

Understand that luck and external forces may also be at play.

Increase self-awareness: The first step in overcoming attribution bias is being self-aware of one’s own actual skills, knowledge, and abilities.

Actor observer versus self serving bias