Spreading the blame: The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents |
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| Authors: | Tobias Gerstenberg David A. Lagnado |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, United States;2. School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom;3. Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, United States;1. Institute of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, China;2. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, United States;1. Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK;2. Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK;3. Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK;4. Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK;5. Centre for Health Policy and Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, St. Mary’s Campus, London W2 1NY, UK |
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| Abstract: | How do people assign responsibility to individuals in a group context? Participants played a repeated trial experimental game with three computer players, in which they counted triangles presented in complex diagrams. Three between-subject conditions differed in how the group outcome was computed from the individual players’ answers. After each round, participants assigned responsibility for the outcome to each player. The results showed that participants’ assignments varied between conditions, and were sensitive to the function that translated individual contributions into the group outcome. The predictions of different cognitive models of attribution were tested, and the Structural Model (Chockler & Halpern, 2004) predicted the data best. |
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