Distributed cognition, docility, and social responsibility

From now on and for about four weeks, this blog will host posts and comments on social responsibility of individuals and businesses. Why? I explain what led me to this decision shortly.
It is in my book and in an earlier article (Secchi, 2009, JBE) that I try and make a connection between 'docility'---i.e., the attitude to exchange recommendations, advice, information from others to make a decision---and the cognitive backbone of individual social responsibility. Here is how I characterize this relationship in that paper:

Most of our cognitive processes are social, and responsibility is the way individuals preserve the use of the same social channel again and again. […] It is information sharing and advice giving and taking that rests at the basis of processes such as altruism, cooperation, and SR. So that we can re-define these tendencies as byproducts of docility (pp. 578-579).

For further clarifications, you can always read the article. However, I will write more on these relationships between distributed cognition (and docility as its behavioral aspect) and social responsibility. Whenever the topics covered will map on extendable rationality more directly, it will be made clear. Enjoy!