Editing Self-serving bias (section)

===Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)===
The self-serving bias has been investigated by the [[Functional magnetic resonance imaging|fMRI method]] in normal populations. Attributions using the bias show activation in the [[dorsal striatum]], which plays a role in motivated behavior, as well as in the dorsal anterior cingulate.<ref name="Blackwood-2003">{{cite journal|last=Blackwood|first=NJ|author2=Bentall RP |author3=Fytche DH |author4=Simmons A |author5=Murray RM |author6=Howard RJ. |title=Self-responsibility and the self-serving bias: an fMRI investigation of causal attributions|journal=NeuroImage|year=2003|volume=20|issue=2|pages=1076–85|doi=10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00331-8|pmid=14568477|s2cid=37340596}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Seidel|first=Eva-Maria|author2=Eickhoff, Simon B. |author3=Kellermann, Thilo |author4=Schneider, Frank |author5=Gur, Ruben C. |author6=Habel, Ute |author7=Derntl, Birgit |title=Who is to blame? Neural correlates of causal attribution in social situations|journal=Social Neuroscience|year=2010|volume=5|issue=4|pages=335–350|doi=10.1080/17470911003615997|pmid=20162490|s2cid=36860601|pmc=8019091}}</ref> In [[major depressive disorder|clinically depressed]] patients, there appear to be weaker connections between the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and limbic areas of the brain, so this connection may play a role in self-serving attributions.<ref name="Seidel-2011" />