People attribute successes internally but failures to external groups.

Evidence

Hitler’s attributional account of Germany’s failure is illustrative of the same self-serving bias (D. T. Miller & M. Ross, 1975) common among ordinary individuals—namely, the tendency for people to attribute their successes to their own or their in-group’s behaviors or characteristics (internal attributions) but to attribute their failures to factors located outside of themselves or their ingroup (external attributions). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1736

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scapegoating requires large shared frustrations plus a blaming ideology. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 794; Instigators rise by offering hope in crises that relies on scapegoating. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1704; In-group successes are credited to character while out-group successes get situational excuses — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 114 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• In-group successes are credited to character while out-group successes get situational excuses #expands (0.95) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 114
• Individual frustrations produce personal blame; group frustrations produce outgroup blame. #complicates (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1578