2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Psychological bases of blame and judgment of responsibility among lay people: Empirical investigation and the development of methods for legal education.
| Project Area | Law and Human Behavior |
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| Project/Area Number |
23101002
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUMURA YOSHIYUKI 明治大学, 研究・知財戦略機構, 研究員 (80091502)
ZEMBA YURIKO 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 准教授 (00548886)
MURAKAMI FUMIO 奈良大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (30397088)
OKUDA TARO 南山大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (20367725)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 責任判断 / 法と心理学 / 素朴理解 / 原因推論 / 規範 / 文化 / 量刑 / 法教育 |
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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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| Free Research Field |
社会心理学
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