On the Genesis of Inflated (and Deflated) Judgments of Responsibility: Egocentrism Revisited
Abstract
Prior research has found that people tend to overestimate their relative contributions to joint tasks (e.g., Ross & Sicoly, 1979). In the present research we investigate one of the causes of this bias, and in doing so, identify an important moderator of the effect. In three studies we demonstrate that when people estimate their relative contributions to collective endeavors they focus on their own contributions and give less consideration to the...
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Title
On the Genesis of Inflated (and Deflated) Judgments of Responsibility: Egocentrism Revisited
Published Date
Jan 1, 2006
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