The present research studies the attribution of credit for success and attribution of blame for failure in a human–robot group. In the experiment, two participants of the same gender and a robot composed of a group that cooperated to solve the desert survival problem. Each group completed two tasks whose outcomes were manipulated: one task succeeded, and the other task failed. The participants were asked to attribute the credit of success and blame of failure to the group members, including the robot member, the human member, and the participants themselves. The results are as follows. First, participants attributed more credit and less blame to the robot member than to themselves. Second, participants attributed less blame to the human member than to themselves, and no significant difference was observed in the attribution of credit between them. Third, the robot member was more blamed than the human member, whereas they received similar levels of credit. Finally, compared with male participants, female participants assigned more credit and less blame to the robot member. The findings in this paper shed some light on the allocation of responsibility based on outcomes in human–robot groups.

本研究研究了人类-机器人群体的成功归功归因和失败归咎于归因。在实验中，两个相同性别的参与者和一个由一群人组成的机器人合作解决了沙漠生存问题。每个小组完成两项任务，其结果受到操纵：一项任务成功，另一项任务失败。要求参与者将成功和失败的归功归功于小组成员，包括机器人成员，人类成员和参与者本身。结果如下。首先，参与者对机器人成员的归功要归功于他们自己，而不是他们自己。其次，参与者对人类成员的指责要少于对他们自己的指责，并且在他们之间的信用归属上也没有观察到显着差异。第三，机器人成员比人类成员更受指责，而他们获得了相似的信用等级。最后，与男性参与者相比，女性参与者为机器人成员分配了更多的荣誉和更少的责备。本文的研究结果揭示了基于人机群体成果的责任分配。