A Theory of Blame

By Kelly G. Shaver. 1985

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Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning (2019, background): “People construct counterfactuals that imagine how a decision could have been different, but they also evaluate whether it should have been different [Malle et al., 2014].”
Responsibility for implicit bias (2012, background): “Instead, preliminary empirical work by Malle et al. (2014) suggests that individuals are more likely to see responses as forms of blaming when they are thoughtful, calm, and delivered without high emotion (in contrast, see the conception of blame outlined and critiqued by Pickard, 2013, which…”
Deconstructing intent to reconstruct morality (2015, background): “And, as several generations of careful research attest, it plays a foundational role in processes of moral judgment [16,18,19 ,20,21 ,22].”
Consequences of attributing discrimination to implicit vs. explicit bias (2019, background): “Similarly, both classic and more recent models of behavioral attribution (Heider, 1958; Malle, 1999; Malle, Guglielmo, & Monroe, 2014; Monroe & Malle, 2017; Weiner, 1995) assert the critical role of perceived intent in shaping these jud-gements.”
Sacrifice One For the Good of Many? People Apply Different Moral Norms to Human and Robot Agents (2015, background): “In fact, Malle and colleagues [36] suggested that wrongness (and permissibility) judgments are simply stating a deviation from a norm and are much harder to justify, whereas blame judgments are based on systematic processing of information such as causal contributions, intentionality, reasons, and…”
Social Chemistry 101: Learning to Reason about Social and Moral Norms (2020, background): “…that govern our society, social norms perform the role of providing guidelines on socially appropriate behaviors (Elster, 2006; Bow-dery, 1941; Kohlberg, 1976) and are responsible for setting implicit expectations of what is socially right or wrong (Malle et al., 2014; Haidt, 2012; Hare, 1981).”