Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility
通过实验研究委托决策权如何影响责任归因，发现委托能有效转移责任，且这种动机是委托决策权的重要原因；还提出了一种责任度量方法，比基于结果或意图的度量更能预测惩罚行为。
To fully understand the motives for delegating a decision right, it is important to study responsibility attributions for outcomes of delegated decisions. We conducted an experiment in which subjects were able to delegate the choice between a fair or unfair allocation, and used a punishment option to elicit responsibility attributions. Our results show that, first, responsibility attribution can be effectively shifted and, second, this constitutes a powerful motive for the delegation of a decision right. Furthermore, we propose a formal measure of responsibility and show that this measure outperforms measures based on outcome or intention in predicting punishment behavior.