Changes of Causal Attribution by a Co-actor in Situations of Obvious Causality.

ABSTRACT: In social contexts, people are responsible for their actions and outcomes. Diffusion of responsibility is a well-known social phenomenon: people feel less responsible when performing an action with co-actors than when acting alone. In previous studies, co-actors reduced the participant's responsibility attribution by making the cause of the outcomes ambiguous. Meanwhile, it is unclear whether the presence of co-actors creates diffusion of responsibility even in situations where it is "obvious" that both oneself and the co-actor are the causes of an outcome. To investigate this potential diffusion of responsibility, we used a temporal binding (TB) task as a measure of causal attribution. Low TB effects indicate the enhancement of external attribution (i.e., diffusion of responsibility) in p

SUBMITTER: Hayashida K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815702 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature