Is there a universal positivity bias in attributions? A meta-analytic review of individual, developmental, and cultural differences in the self-serving attributional bias.

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Exploring Causes of the Self‐serving Bias (2008, background): “Instead, they show a weaker self-serving bias than do people with positive self-schema (Mezulis et al., 2004).”
Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self (2012, result): “Consistent with previous research (Campbell & Sedikides, 1999; Mezulis et al., 2004), participants in the failure condition attributed their performance less to their ability than those in the success condition.”