A Psychological Analysis On Law Consciousness

This article consists of four chapters besides introduction and conclusion.The basic developing course of law consciousness elements are analyzed onthe psychological platform and on psychological view, individual lawconsciousness, group law consciousness and national law consciousness areanalyzed, too. Introduction introduces the source of law consciousness and its relationwith western scholar's standpoint and three forms of law .It is analyzed thatthe structure and elements of law consciousness on two viewpoints accordingto the being research. On horizontal viewpoint, law consciousness is integratedby six elements such as law knowledge, law ideal and law affect and law willand law evaluation and law belief. On vertical viewpoint, the lawconsciousness is integrated by three elements such as law mental state, lawidea and law systems of thought. These elements are the foundation on whichthe psychological analysis proceeds. The first chapter The psychological elements dissection of lawConsciousness introduces the basic standpoint of cognitive psychology, andthen dissects six psychological elements related with law consciousness. Fromthe self-law-consciousness to the law consciousness to others to the group lawconsciousness. The law perception and cognition are studied in three aspects.Self-consciousness of law is formed from all pieces of law perceptions whenthey are accumulated and integrated over a long time. The informationmolding self- consciousness of law comes from others' feedback, reflectingevaluation from others and conclusion according to himself activity andsociety comparison. It is forming impression when we are in perceiving toothers and its influence factors include the primary effect, the latter effect andaureole effect and negative evaluation. Stereotype effect to group is formedthrough individual experience and society learning. The social motivationrelated to law derives from personal needing about individual society 1吉林大学硕士学位论文 法律意识的心理学分析fulfillment and it will become the new force to new fulfillment. This kind ofmotivation includes achievement activation, intimate activation and invasionactivation and power activation. Affect is the experience of attitude to lawactuality and it includes emotion, feeling and sentiment. Attitude is the nearestconcept to the core of law consciousness. Law attitude can help personadjusting himself to fit society life through being systematized by lawperception and law cognition and to influence individual psychological course.Attention is a important role in selecting information. This article introducesearly selecting model, middle selecting model and later selecting model.Memory is a working system about news including coding, saving andwithdrawing. Coding is in scheme and group. Saving includes momentmemory, short time memory and long time memory and withdrawing includesrecall, recognizing again and forget. The second chapter Psychological analysis on law consciousnesselements expatiates six elements of the law consciousness based onpsychology. To obtain law knowledge is related to four steps including scheme,assimilation and adjusting and equilibrium, and meanwhile it is related tomature, law activity experience and social interaction and equilibrium, too.Law ideal is the great target that person wants to pursue and it derives frompursuing the justice, keeping order and realizing rule of law. Law ideal is anexpected design to fit higher needs when lower needs has been realized. Lawaffect is related closely to law needs and law cognition and its development islimited by the degree in which law rule has been understood. The occurrenceof the law will should be in the condition of law emotion being mutuallycongenial with the law conviction, and another condition is to overcomedifficulty and to refuse lure. The law will must be through t...