Is the Human Psychology Passive? An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Into Agency, Responsibility, and Neuroscience in the Legal Domain

The social psychological movements to understand the social construction of agency, free will, and dignity of mind while reforming justice have gained new meaning through the rise of brain studies. There is also a long debate about human passivity and psychological approaches to theorize human nature. The extant brain research is emerging as an essential interdisciplinary domain engaging with psychological knowledge and the law. The conceptual errors and further debates ventured by sociocultural psychologists, neuroscientists, and social scientists tinkered new debates in the understanding of human nature and majoritarian definition of passivity of human mind. The practical and ethical implications related to the social psychological understanding of passivity, moral responsibility and the brain will be highlighted.