Among friends? An examination of friendship and the self-serving bias

Do friends bound each other's self-enhancement tendencies? Do friends displ ay the self-serving bias (SSB; i.e. taking individual credit for success bu t blaming a partner for failure)? Dyads consisting of either friends or str angers engaged in an interdependent-outcomes creativity test, received bogu s success or failure feedback at the dyadic level, and made responsibility attributions for the joint test performance. Strangers displayed the SSB. F riends, in contrast, refrained from the SSB: they shared responsibility for both successful and unsuccessful test outcomes. Friendship does place boun daries on self-enhancement.