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self-serving adj. referring to a question asked of a party to a lawsuit or a statement by that person that serves no purpose and provides no evidence, but only argues or reinforces the legal position of that party. Example: Question asked by a lawyer of his own client: "Are you the sort of person who would never do anything dishonest?" Such a question may be objected to as "self-serving" by the opposing lawyer, and then will be disallowed by the judge, unless there is some evidentiary value. Some people add self-serving comments to their testimony, such as "I never tell lies," which can be stricken from the record as a self-serving declaration. (See: objection)



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In the article, "An empirical examination of the role of attributions in psychological entitlement and its outcomes," Harvey and coauthor Mark Martinko at Florida State University, write that people who feel entitled to preferential treatment more often than not exhibit self-serving attributional styles--the tendency to take credit for good outcomes and blame others when things go wrong.
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