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Responsibility

The Many Faces of a Social Phenomenon

• Edited by Ann Elisabeth Auhagen, Hans-Werner Bierhoff

• Price: $170.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 208
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 21st December 2000
• Illustrations: 10 line figures, 9 tables
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23530-3

About the Book

This important new volume argues that responsibility is a characteristic of fundamental importance for the survival of modern democratic structures. It represents a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge psychological, philosophical, sociological and evolutionary approaches to the topic.

Reviews

'The examples of discrimination provided were motivating...the analysis of different models was both well informed and helpful.' - Psychological Medicine

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction
1. Responsibility as a fundamental human phenomenon Hans-Werner Bierhoff and Ann Elisabeth Auhagen
Part II. Basic Issues and Domains of Responsibility
2. Philosophical foundations of responsibility Dieter Birnbacher
3. Responsibility: a biological perspective Robert A. Hinde
4. Toward a broader psychological foundation for responsibility: who, what, how Kelly G. Shaver and Deborah A. Schutte
5. An attributional approach to perceived responsibility for transgressions: extensions to child abuse, punishment goals and political ideology Bernard Weiner
6. Responsibility in everyday life Ann Elisabeth Auhagen
7. Denial of responsibility Leo Montada
Part III. Applications of Responsibility
8. Responsibility and technology Hans Lenk and Matthias Maring
9. Responsibility and ecological behaviour - a meta-analysis of the strength and the extent of a causal link Florian G. Kaiser, Urs Fuhrer, Olaf Weber, Thomas Ofner and Evelina Bühler-Ilieva
10. Responsibility appraisals of health protection Elisabeth Kals
11. Responsibility in work organisations L. Alan Witt
12. Responsibility and altruism: the role of volunteerism Hans-Weber Bierhoff
13. Responsibility and reactions to the disadvantaged Manfred Schmitt, Barbara Reichle and Jürgen Maes
Part IV. Perspectives
14. Responsibility at the Beginning of the Third Millennium Ann Elisabeth Auhagen and Hans-Weber Bierhoff