According to group-agent realism, treating groups as agents with their own intentional states, irreducible to those of the group members, helps us explain and predict the groups’ behavior. This paper challenges this view. When groups judge logically interconnected propositions, group members often have incentives to misrepresent their beliefs concerning propositions they care less about in order to increase the probability of their groups adopting their view of propositions they consider more important. Aggregating such untruthful judgments may lead to the group forming false beliefs. Treating groups as agents will then not help us explain or predict their behavior.

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冗余组代理

根据群体-代理现实主义，将群体视为具有其自己的意向状态的行为者，这是群体成员无法还原的，这有助于我们解释和预测群体的行为。本文对这一观点提出了挑战。当小组判断逻辑上相互联系的命题时，小组成员常常会诱使他们歪曲他们对自己不太关心的命题的信念，以增加其小组采纳他们认为更重要的命题观点的可能性。聚集这种不真实的判断可能会导致该群体形成错误的信念。这样，将团体视为代理人将无助于我们解释或预测其行为。