| Budget Amount *help |
¥20,150,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,650,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
As an interdisciplinary attempt across the areas of psychology, law, and ethics, the present study aimed to reveal the structure of "naive legal theory" (i.e., a mental model prevalent among lay people without formal training) with respect to legal concepts such as responsibility, and the underlying psychological processes. In a series of empirical studies employing social psychological experiments, we examined how judgments of responsibility are constructed concerning acts of an individual (natural person) as well as those of an organization (legal person). We also analyzed the contents of different kinds of norm-conscious behavior as well as the effect of their activated states through priming methods. A theoretical model was proposed so that motivational cognitive processes contributing to the construction of responsibility can be accounted for on the integral basis on traditional theoretical perspectives of legal philosophy and ethics.
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