People minimize discrimination attributions for themselves while readily applying them to others

Evidence

However, when it came to an in-group other, participants were more willing to acknowledge discrimination in the 60% condition, thus apparently lowering the definitive standard of discrimination. In other words, the female participants minimized the possibility of discrimination, particularly when the potential discrimination pertained to their own fate. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the classic actor-observer asymmetry and self-serving bias findings in attribution research. — connects to: Condemning one’s own practiced wrongs in others enables easy self-exculpation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2033; Giving others the benefit of the doubt extends vigilance against one’s own blind spots — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 333; Members of disadvantaged groups deny their own discrimination implicitly — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 154 (+1 more)
• SEED: Article angle: the asymmetry between how we read discrimination against ourselves versus our own group.