Responsibility judgments of wins and losses in the 2013 chess championship

Autor: Gro Hege Haraldsen Nordbye, Karl Halvor Teigen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Judgment and Decision Making, Vol 9, Pp 335-348 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 19302975
1930-2975
DOI: 10.1017/S1930297500006203
Popis: We report two studies on the perceived responsibility of opponents competing for a goal that can be attained by only one of them. Responsibility judgments were collected in seven samples of lay people and experts before, during, and after the World Chess Championship in 2013. Participants assessed the responsibility of the two players, their supporting teams, local conditions, and chance factors for four hypothetical outcomes (large and small loss/win for each player), along with probabilities for these outcomes, demonstrating subadditivity (sums exceeding 100%) in all samples, even among chess experts. The winner was consistently perceived to be more responsible than the loser, and more for outcomes with large than small margins. There was also an effect of focal player, as Carlsen was given more responsibility both for losses and wins than Anand, by the present (Norwegian) pro-Carlsen samples. However, this effect could be modified by describing the outcomes as Anand’s (rather than Carlsen’s) wins and losses. Thus the study adds to the valence framing literature by showing how responsibility judgments are affected by the way outcomes are framed.
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