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SUBMITTER: Beyer F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390744 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20170101 1
Diffusion of responsibility across agents has been proposed to underlie decreased helping and increased aggression in group behaviour. However, few studies have directly investigated effects of the presence of other people on how we experience the consequences of our actions. This EEG study investigated whether diffusion of responsibility simply reflects a post-hoc self-serving bias, or rather has direct effects on how we process the outcomes of our actions, and our experience of agency over the ...[more]