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A friend does something to shatter our trust. An airliner crashes, killing dozens of passengers. A period of international tensions erupts into a shooting war. What is the cause of each of these events? Who is responsible? Who is to blame? In the preceding chapters I have tried to show how the first two of these questions might be answered, and in the next chapter I shall consider the last question. At this point it is important to emphasize that there have been two parallel kinds of answers to the questions about causality and responsibility.
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Shaver, K.G. (1985). Attributions of Causality and Responsibility: Discovered or Imposed?. In: The Attribution of Blame. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5094-4_7
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