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Michael, John and Szigeti, András (2018) “The Group Knobe Effect” : evidence that people intuitively attribute agency and responsibility to groups. Philosophical Explorations . doi:10.1080/13869795.2018.1492007 (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2018.1492007
Abstract
In the current paper, we present and discuss a series of experiments in which we investigated people’s willingness to ascribe intentions, as well as blame and praise, to groups. The experiments draw upon the so-called “Knobe Effect”. Knobe (2003) found that the positiveness or negativeness of side-effects of actions influences people’s assessment of whether those side-effects were brought about intentionally, and also that people are more willing to assign blame for negative side-effects of actions than they are to assign praise for positive side-effect of actions. Building upon this research, we found evidence that the positiveness or negativeness of side-effects of group actions influences people’s willingness to attribute intentions to groups, (experiment 1a), and that people are more willing to assign blame to groups for negative side-effects of actions than they are to assign praise to groups for positive side-effects of actions (experiment 1b). We also found evidence (experiments 2a, 2b, 3 and 4) that the “Group Knobe Effect” persists even when intentions and blame/praise are attributed to groups non-distributively, indicating that people tend not to think of group intentions and group blame/praise in distributive terms. We conclude that the folk are collectivist about group intentions, and also about the blameworthiness and praiseworthiness of groups.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Praise, Blame, Social groups, Collective behavior | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophical Explorations | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1386-9795 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 4 July 2018 | |||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 March 2018 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13869795.2018.1492007 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
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