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“The Group Knobe Effect” : evidence that people intuitively attribute agency and responsibility to groups

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Michael, John and Szigeti, András (2019) “The Group Knobe Effect” : evidence that people intuitively attribute agency and responsibility to groups. Philosophical Explorations, 22 (1). pp. 44-61. doi:10.1080/13869795.2018.1492007

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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
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
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: 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
2019Published
4 July 2018Available
4 May 2018Updated
7 February 2018Accepted
Volume: 22
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 44-61
DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2018.1492007
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
679092European Research Councilhttp://viaf.org/viaf/130022607
26167Aarhus Universitethttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007605
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