Ann Elisabeth Auhagen / Hans-Werner Bierhoff (eds.)

Responsibility

The Many Faces of a Social Phenomenon
Herausgeber: Auhagen, Ann Elisabeth; Bierhoff, Hans-Werner

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Western society the importance of responsibility is increasing. This book reviews the phenomenon of responsibility on a scientific basis from different and interdisciplinary perspectives

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The importance of responsibility in the third millennium is increasing. The rise of new technologies and related environmental hazards, the problem of the neglect of the poor and old, and the increase in aggression indicate that responsibility is the characteristic which is critical for the survival of modern democratic structures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415235303
• ISBN-10: 0415235308
• Artikelnr.: 22155853

Autorenporträt

Ann Elisabeth Auhagen is a researcher and teacher at the Department of Psychology at the Free University of Berlin. Her main research interests are responsibility, personal relationships, friendship, social support, communication, the meaning of life and field research methods. Hans-Werner Bierhoff is Professor and Head of Social Psychology at Ruhr University, Bochum. His research interests include altruism and helping behaviour, fairness and responsibility in close relationships, and aggression and violence.

Inhaltsangabe

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