%0 Journal Article
%T Shared responsibility in collective decisions
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%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0596-4
%X Research investigating collective decision-making has focused primarily on the improvement of accuracy in collective decisions and less on the motives that drive individuals to make these decisions. We argue that a strong but neglected motive for making collective decisions is minimizing the material and psychological burden of an individual¡¯s responsibility. Making difficult decisions with others shields individuals from the consequences of negative outcomes by reducing regret, punishment and stress. Considering shared responsibility as a another key motivation to join groups helps understand behaviours with societal implications such as political voting, committing norm violations, predicting natural disasters and making health-related decisions
%U https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0596-4