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    "pk": 25514,
    "title": "Responsibility judgments in voting scenarios",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "How do people assign responsibility for the outcome of an\nelection? In previous work, we have shown that responsibility\njudgments in achievement contexts are affected by the probability\nthat a person’s contribution is necessary, and by how\nclose it was to being pivotal (Lagnado, Gerstenberg, & Zultan,\n2013). Here we focus on responsibility judgments in voting\nscenarios. We varied the number of people in different voting\ncommittees, their political affiliations, the number of votes\nrequired for a policy to pass, which party supports the policy,\nand the pattern of votes (creating 170 different situations). As\nexpected, we found that participants’ responsibility judgments\nincreased the closer the voter was to being pivotal. Further,\njudgments increased the more unexpected a vote was. Voters\nwere assigned more responsibility when they voted against the\nmajority in the committee, and when they voted against their\nparty affiliation.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "responsibility"
        },
        {
            "word": "causality"
        },
        {
            "word": "counterfactuals"
        },
        {
            "word": "pivotality"
        },
        {
            "word": "criticality"
        },
        {
            "word": "normality"
        },
        {
            "word": "voting"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gk6m214",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Tobias",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gerstenberg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joseph",
            "middle_name": "Y",
            "last_name": "Halpern",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Computer Science Department, Cornell University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "B",
            "last_name": "Tenenbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}