Responsibility is divisible by two, but not by three or four: Judgments of responsibility in dyads and groups

Social Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-42

  Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a   Brun, Wibecke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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EID: 79751500882     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2011.29.1.15     Document Type: Article

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