Respondent

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The respondent (from Latin resp. To answer ) is a person who reacts to something that is available in various areas.

psychology

Respondent is the name for an interviewee or respondent in a study. Respondent behavior describes automatic modes of reaction that happen independently of conscious control, in contrast to operant behavior .

Law

In a proceeding, respondent is a term for a defendant, especially in English-speaking countries.

university

In the Middle Ages and in modern times, the respondent was a person who answered a thesis in a disputation . This was faced by the opponent , who took a counter-thesis. In academic theses (dissertations) in the 17th and 18th centuries, a respondent often wrote an assessment that had been commissioned by the university to do so.

In logical disputes, there was dialog between a proponent who took a position and a respondent who answered it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Respondent Dorsch Lexikon der Psychologie
  2. ↑ Friedrich Jäger (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Modern Times . Volume 2. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, Sp. 1053f.
  3. ↑ For example in Thomas Duve: The meaning of age in early modern law. In: Arndt Brendecke, Klaus-Peter Fuchs, Edith Koller (ed.): The authority of time in the early modern period. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 109.
  4. ^ Douglas Walton: Informal Logic. A pragmatic approach. Second edition. Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 125.