Self-serving bias occurs when you blame your failures on outside forces and you take the credit when you are successful. When you succeed in something, you want to believe it was your personal characteristics that made you accomplish it because that helps boost your self-esteem. There has been many instances of self-serving bias in softball involving myself and my teammates. When I get a ball hit to me and I miss it, there has been times where I will say it was a bad hop or the dirt wasn’t smooth enough and it hit a rock. Making these excuses is just to try and make myself feel better about missing the ball but in reality, I probably just didn’t follow the ball into my glove. Many people will blame not catching a ball because
