CCU Psychology Department

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05/02/2026

When something harmful spreads through a social network, how do we decide who is responsible? New research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin sheds some light on how people think about blame in these situations.

Peter Kardos and Brian Lickel ran four experiments with nearly 1,800 participants and found that people naturally trace harmful outcomes back to whoever started the chain of events — not just the person who passed something along most recently. Participants attributed blame up to two degrees back along the causal chain, and they assigned even more blame to initiators when the cascading effects were more severe or reached more people.

In an era when a single post or action can ripple across networks at remarkable speed, this research raises important questions about moral responsibility in our interconnected world.

Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/i4VB50YRfj0

05/02/2026

A new study reveals that the long-standing belief connecting mathematical and musical abilities is largely explained by general intelligence. When researchers controlled for cognitive reasoning, the apparent link between being good at math and music practically disappeared.