Responsibility Attribution for Collective Decision Makers

We implemented two experiments that are designed to recover the responsibility attribution reasoning of individuals. The first endeavor is a lab experiment designed to identify what decision maker attributes, of the actors in a collective decision making group, affect responsibility attribution. Here we simply have individuals identify the decision makers who they want to punish. The collective decision-makers individuals chose to punish are not necessarily those decision makers individuals considered to have had the most influence on the decision making outcome. Our intuition is that this is the case but we designed a second, internet, experiment, with a more representative sample of the UK population, that helps answer this question. In this second experiment individuals are expected to anticipate the relative impact of different decision makers on collection decision outcomes