The growth of social networking platforms has drawn a lot of attentions to the need for social computing. Social computing utilises human insights for computational tasks as well as design of systems that support social behaviours and interactions. One of the key aspects of social computing is the ability to attribute responsibility such as blame or praise to social events. This ability helps a...

Lack of student interest is responsible for suspended operation of the 1987 Spring semester of Notre Dame’s foreign study program in Jerusalem, according to Isabel Charles, director of foreign study programs. “ Only three students signed up. We need at least ten or more students to par­ ticipate in order to run the program,” she said. Charles said the program will be reopened next Fall if the m...

Abstract This paper develops a novel account of the nature blame: on this account, blame is species performance with constitutive aim. The argument for claim that an action speech-act theoretic: it relies performatives and parallelism between mental spoken blame. I argue view scores well prior plausibility theoretical fruitfulness, in that: rests claims are widely accepted across sub-discipline...

This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral s...

Simplifying to the point of blaming limits learning and the ability to prevent similar occurrences in the future. Often, the characteristics of the blame culture are very subtle and what appears to be valuable work is actually a subtle sign of the blame game. Leaders must change the language to a proactive, future preventative state rather than focusing on the past and looking for single causes...

This study examines the defensive attribution hypothesis in the context of a product-harm crisis. A high severity product-harm crisis results in more blame to the company and less blame to the consumer than does a low severity crisis, although this attributional pattern is more evident when the crisis is associated with an unfamiliar brand. A model then reveals personal vulnerability to be an a...

This paper examines the hypothesis of modular judgment in the context of attribution of blame to rape victims. Modular judgment was operationalized using blame schemata suited to judgment of everyday aggression. Subjects were 72 individuals, 36 therapists and 36 non-therapists; half were men and half women. Each subject was presented with written descriptions of four rapes, which included infor...