Research participants who relied on an adviser for help on a general-knowledge quiz about Brazil perceived the adviser to be more responsible for the outcome if the quiz score ended up being high and less responsible if it turned out to be low (60.07 versus 33.83 on a 100-point scale of perceived responsibility for the outcome), says a team led by Mauricio Palmeira of Monash University in Australia. It's often assumed that people will always blame others for bad outcomes and credit themselves for success, but this and other experiments show that advisers are more likely to be held responsible for success than for failure. Moreover, past studies have shown that people tend to credit teammates for success while blaming themselves for failure, and that teachers tend to credit students for success while taking personal responsibility for student shortcomings.
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