The significance of epistemic blame
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-021-00382-0
Abstract: One challenge in developing an account of the nature of epistemic blame is to explain what differentiates epistemic blame from mere negative epistemic evaluation. The challenge is to explain the difference, without invoking practices or… read more here.
Keywords: blame; account; nature epistemic; significance epistemic ... See more keywords
Standing to epistemically blame
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03293-3
Abstract: A plausible condition on having the standing to blame someone is that the target of blame's wrongdoing must in some sense be your “business”—the wrong must in some sense harm or affect you, or others… read more here.
Keywords: blame; condition; epistemically blame; standing epistemically ... See more keywords
How much blame does he truly deserve? Historicist narratives engender uncertainty about blameworthiness, facilitating motivated cognition in moral judgment
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.008
Abstract: Abstract When reprehensible conduct is explicable in terms of the offender's life history or underlying biology, blame is mitigated. Despite their shared capacity for blame mitigation, here we focus on differences between historical and biological… read more here.
Keywords: blame; uncertainty blameworthiness; motivated cognition; uncertainty ... See more keywords
Pass the buck or the buck stops here? The public costs of claiming and deflecting blame in managing crises
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DOI: 10.1017/s0143814x21000039
Abstract: Abstract When things go wrong, and the government may be to blame, the public support enjoyed by elected executives is vulnerable. Because attribution of responsibility is often not straightforward, elected executives can influence citizens’ evaluations… read more here.
Keywords: deflecting blame; blame; elected executives; buck buck ... See more keywords
People Systematically Update Moral Judgments of Blame
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DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000137
Abstract: Six experiments examine people’s updating of blame judgments and test predictions developed from a socially regulated blame perspective. According to this perspective, blame emerged in human history as a socially costly tool for regulating other’s… read more here.
Keywords: blame; people systematically; blame judgments; information ... See more keywords
Hypocritical Blame as Dishonest Signalling
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DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2025.2515857
Abstract: This paper proposes a new theory of the nature of hypocritical blame and why it is objectionable, arguing that hypocritical blame is a form of dishonest signaling. Blaming provides very important benefits: through its ability… read more here.
Keywords: dishonest signalling; hypocritical blame; blame dishonest; blame ... See more keywords
Willingness to Falsely Take Blame among Friends: Closeness, Reporting Wrongdoing, and Identity
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DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2017.1343039
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study examined people’s willingness to falsely take the blame for a friend’s offense. We sought to identify whether friendship closeness and individual differences would predict false blame-taking. Participants were randomly assigned to think… read more here.
Keywords: take blame; blame; reporting wrongdoing; willingness falsely ... See more keywords
Predictors of Trauma-Related Self-Blame in Male Survivors of Sexual Violence
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DOI: 10.1080/10538712.2024.2416103
Abstract: ABSTRACT Survivors of adult sexual assault and child sexual abuse – together encompassing sexual violence (SV) – experience a number of adverse consequences. High rates of self-blame can lead to increased symptomatology and treatment resistance.… read more here.
Keywords: sexual violence; self blame; blame; male survivors ... See more keywords
Blame: What is it good for?
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DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2024.2405523
Abstract: ABSTRACT An emerging strand of research claims that blame is justified on the basis of its instrumental role in serving to ‘cultivate’ or ‘scaffold’ moral agency in those to whom it is directed. On these… read more here.
Keywords: role; blame good; role blame; blame ... See more keywords
Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment
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DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2024.2356071
Abstract: Abstract Research assessing blame attribution in third-party governance views public service performance as a function of efficiency and effectiveness but overlooks equity. We address this gap in the literature by asking two questions: (1) Does… read more here.
Keywords: inequitable service; service provision; service; blame ... See more keywords
From Mobsters to Magnates: Shifting Blame for Modern Slavery in Australian Parliamentary Inquiries
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DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsaa070
Abstract: Policy problems are typically framed through a representation of those who have been harmed, and those who are to blame, with parliamentary inquiries playing a key role in setting the agenda by mediating between competing… read more here.
Keywords: modern slavery; mobsters magnates; blame; policy ... See more keywords