'The Group Knobe Effect': evidence that people intuitively attribute agency and responsibility to groups
| Autor: | John Michael, András Szigeti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Group (mathematics) media_common.quotation_subject collective intentions 05 social sciences BF 06 humanities and the arts HM 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology praise Collective agency Blame Collective responsibility Philosophy 060302 philosophy Agency (sociology) collective responsibility 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Praise Knobe Effect Psychology Social psychology collective agency media_common |
| Zdroj: | Philosophical Explorations |
| ISSN: | 1386-9795 1741-5918 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13869795.2018.1492007 |
| Popis: | 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. “Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language.” Analysis 63: 190–194] 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. |
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