Replication data for: Responsibility Attribution for Collective Decision Makers

We argue that individuals have general responsibility attribution heuristics that apply to collective decisions made, for example, by families, teams within firms, boards in international organisations or coalition governments. We conduct laboratory and online survey experiments designed to tease out the heuristics subjects use in their responsibility attribution for collective decision makers. The lab experiments comprise a collective dictator game in which decision makers have weighted votes and recipients can punish individual decision makers. Our results show that recipients punish unfair allocations and mainly target the decision maker with proposal power and with the largest vote share. We find weak evidence that decision makers with veto power are targeted or that recipients punish proportional to weighted voting power. The online survey experiment demonstrates that subjects indeed believe that the decision maker with proposal power has the most influence on the collective decision outcome. We discuss the implications of our findings for theories of vote choice.我们主张，个体普遍拥有适用于集体决策的责任归因启发式策略，此类集体决策的制定主体涵盖家庭、企业内部团队、国际组织董事会以及联合政府等场景。我们开展了实验室实验与线上调查实验，旨在厘清被试在对集体决策者进行责任归因时所采用的启发式策略。实验室实验包含一项集体独裁者博弈实验，在该实验中，决策者拥有加权投票权，而接受分配者可对个体决策者实施惩罚。实验结果表明，接受分配者会对不公平的分配方案实施惩罚，且主要将惩罚目标指向拥有提案权且投票份额最高的决策者。我们仅发现微弱的证据支持，即拥有否决权的决策者会成为惩罚目标，或是接受分配者会按照与加权投票权成比例的方式实施惩罚。线上调查实验显示，被试确实认为拥有提案权的决策者对集体决策结果拥有最大影响力。我们还讨论了本研究发现对投票选择理论的启示意义。