Blame

There are two main ways that have been proposed to [blank] blame. The first method comes from political science and law. A recent paper with seven studies and agent-based modeling suggested that the best thing to do to reduce blame is to focus on [blank] as many people as possible for success and blame as narrowly as possible after failure. In the [blank] of COVID-19, this would mean focusing as much as possible on the people who have done the right thing and the successes along the way, and blame should be used extremely rarely to meet judgment on very narrow targets (e.g., a failed health minister who violated social norms for [blank] own gain). This method, in the Path-Based Model of blame, would work by changing when blame is used.