Distance runners' causal attributions for most successful and least successful races

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the causal attributions that athletes make for successful and unsuccessful performances in sports competitions. In a research on distance runners' causal attributions for most successful and least successful races, subjects gave more internal attributions for their successful races than for their least successful races. This indicates that self-serving bias influenced the runners in making their attributions.
Research in attribution theory explores the intricate process that we go through in order to identify the causes for our behaviors, the behaviors of others, and for various life events. [...]