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Abstract
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 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.

About the speaker
Bahador Bahrami is from Tehran, Iran. He got his MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2003 and then moved to London to do a PhD in cognitive neuroscience of consciousness in the human brain which he finished in 2008. After his PhD, Bahador came to Aarhus (2008-10) to work with Andreas Roepstorff and Chris Frith. This period had a very profound impact on his research and has shaped his work ever since. He went back to London in 2010 where he founded the Crowd Cognition research lab. In 2018 he moved his lab to Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich Germany where he is now. Bahador's research focuses on the cognitive and neurobiological basis of interactive decision making between human-human and more recently, human-AI agents.

IMC Tuesday Seminar held November 7th, 2023.

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