Finding fault: Causality and counterfactuals in group attributions

By Ro’i Zultan, Tobias Gerstenberg, David A. Lagnado. 2012

63 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Graphical abstract Highlights ► We develop a general framework of responsibility attributions in groups. ► Three experiments show that blame varies with the relationships between agents. ► Agents are blamed more if their complement succeeds rather than their substitute. ► Blame attributions are sensitive to ways in which an agent can make a difference. ► The importance of understanding responsibility attributions in groups is discussed.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Safety Research

1. David A. Lagnado
2. Tobias Gerstenberg
3. Ro’i Zultan

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ro’i Zultan
2. Tobias Gerstenberg
3. David A. Lagnado
4. Tim Miller

Citations in the corpus

• Causal Responsibility and Counterfactuals (2013, methodology): “The results from Gerstenberg and Lagnado (2010) and Zultan et al. (2012) confirm that the structural approach to responsibility successfully explains attributions to players who, in retrospect, would not have altered the team outcome.”