Title: A Review on the Mental Process and Framework of Responsibility
Abstract: In recent 20 years,the issue of responsibility has been paid great attention since different social matters emerged in west world.In this situation,a number of west psychologists begin to research the responsibility with different approaches.Regarding as a mental phenomenon,the issues of responsibility,such as study on taxonomy of responsibility,attributional approach to perceived responsibility,judgments of responsibility,mental process and framework of responsibility,and so on,are gotten study and have gained a lot of achievements.In the field of study on taxonomy of responsibility,dichotomy is the familiar way to distinguish the responsibility,such as exante responsibility vs.ex post responsibility,positive responsibility vs.negative responsibility,individual responsibility vs.social responsibility.Usually,using different classification standard implies researchers' different approaches or interests in responsibility.In the field of its mental process and framework,responsibility is regarded as self-discipline to one's mental and behavioral activities.In west world,the researches on the mental process of responsibility are focused on the responsibility situation,the cognition and judgment of responsibility,responsibility undertaking condition,and so on.Furthermore,the psychological foundations for responsibility are paid great attention too.In the issue of the framework of responsibility,the influential researches are those achievements of Weiner and Auhagen.The former has advanced a hypothesis of mental framework of responsibility in the direction on ex post responsibility Attribution and Judgment.The latter has studied the generic mental mechanism of responsibility experience.She claimed the mental framework of responsibility is a complicated configuration including an inner motive,striving for a goal,performing activity,experiencing control and self-efficacy.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: review
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