Attributions of Responsibility: Blamings

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Anita Pomerantz
Keyword(s):  
Attributions Of Responsibility ◽  
Initial Action

In reporting an “unhappy event,” a speaker identifies an unwanted outcome without indicating what or who is responsible for the outcome. While this type of report appears to be an informing, it is used to elicit the recipient’s account if offered to a recipient who is implicated in, and possibly responsible for, the unwanted outcome. The report provides the recipient with the opportunity to volunteer an account that relates to their responsibility for the unwanted outcome. It functions as an alternative to directly accusing the recipient. The practice relies on the participants’ orientation to a sequence of actions. The report of the unwanted outcome is a sequence initial action. A relevant next action is for the recipient to offer a version of their actions and motives that speak to their responsibility for the outcome.

Interactive Experience and Identification as Predictors of Attributing Responsibility in Video Games

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Nathan Walter ◽  
Yariv Tsfati
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Theoretical Expectation ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Attributions Of Responsibility ◽  
Violent Video Game ◽  
Grand Theft Auto Iv ◽  
Interactive Experience

Abstract. This study examines the effect of interactivity on the attribution of responsibility for the character’s actions in a violent video game. Through an experiment, we tested the hypothesis that identification with the main character in Grand Theft Auto IV mediates the effect of interactivity on attributions of responsibility for the main character’s antisocial behavior. Using the framework of the fundamental attribution error, we demonstrated that those who actually played the game, as opposed to those who simply watched someone else playing it, identified with the main character. In accordance with the theoretical expectation, those who played the game and came to identify with the main character attributed the responsibility for his actions to external factors such as “living in a violent society.” By contrast, those who did not interact with the game attributed responsibility for the character’s actions to his personality traits. These findings could be viewed as contrasting with psychological research suggesting that respondents should have distanced themselves from the violent protagonist rather than identifying with him, and with Iyengar’s (1991) expectation that more personalized episodic framing would be associated with attributing responsibility to the protagonist.

Irrational Attributions of Responsibility: Who, What, When, and Why

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sadow
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Attributions Of Responsibility

“Irrational” attributions of responsibility (attributing more responsibility to a victim when his misfortune is greater and attributing more responsibility to a weaker rather than a stronger victim) were more common when decisions were hurried and among people who characteristically assign causes of actions to persons. People whose moral judgments are more sophisticated in Kohlberg's schema made fewer irrational attributions generally.

scholarly journals ‘God helps those who help themselves’… religion and Assisted Reproductive Technology usage amongst urban Ghanaians

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0260346
Author(s):  
Rosemond Akpene Hiadzi ◽  
Isaac Mensah Boafo ◽  
Peace Mamle Tetteh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technology ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Attributions Of Responsibility ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Treatment Processes ◽  
Desire To Have Children ◽  
Cultural Implications

Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is increasingly becoming a viable option for infertile couples in Ghana. There exists significant literature that explores the gender, legal, religious and socio-cultural implications of ART usage. In this paper, we expand the discourse on the nexus between religion and ART usage by looking at how the former is used as a frame of reference in the decision-making process, as well as how it is employed to explain treatment successes and failures. Irrespective of religious orientation, there was a general acceptance of ART by participants in the study-with exceptions only when it came to some aspects of the procedure. Even here, participants’ desperate desire to have children, tended to engender some accommodation of procedures they were uncomfortable with because of their religious beliefs. Thus, in contrast to some studies that suggest religion as interfering with ART use, we posit that religion is not an inhibiting factor to ART usage. On the contrary, it is an enabling factor, engendering the agentic attitude of participants to find a solution to their infertility in ART; as well as providing the strength to endure the physical and emotional discomfort associated with the biomedical process of conception and childbirth. In this context, religion thus provides participants with a frame of reference to navigate the spaces between decision-making, treatment processes and outcomes, and attributions of responsibility for the outcomes whatever they may be.

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