Mr. Carlson is a politician who credits his past election victories to his own effective communication and hard work; he attributes his past election losses to factors beyond his control. His assessments best illustrate

His assessment best illustrates SELF SERVING BIAS.

Explanation: Self serving bias  is any cognitive or perceptual process that makes an individual to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. Individuals exhibiting the self serving bias factor always perceive them self in an overly favorable manner.

Self-serving bias.

Explanation:

The tendency to perceive oneself favorably; appears as self-serving attributions, self-congratulatory comparisons, illusory optimism, and false consensus for one's failings; many people have the tendency to attribute their success to their own ability and failure to external factors "bad luck" "impossibility and see themselves better than average. This assessment is known as Self-serving bias.

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