Describe how the self-serving bias can be both adaptive and maladaptive.

Describe how the self-serving bias can be both adaptive and maladaptive.



Adaptive: it allows us to savour the good things that happen in our lives.

Maladaptive: when bad things happen, we may have a tendency to blame others or feel cheated out of something we have "deserved"

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