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  • Social Psychology
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • Sense of Agency (SoA) is fundamental to human experience, referring to the feeling of causing one's actions and their effects.
  • Social Agency extends SoA to interactions with conspecifics, encompassing reactions to actions, joint actions, and social presence.
  • Current conceptualizations of Social Agency are oversimplified and underresearched, lacking clear links to nonsocial SoA.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conceptualize Social Agency and its relationship with nonsocial Sense of Agency.
  • To review empirical evidence and identify commonalities and differences across Social Agency instantiations.
  • To propose a new framework for understanding Social Agency.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of empirical evidence on Social Agency.
  • Analysis of commonalities and differences in Social Agency paradigms.
  • Conceptual analysis integrating Social Agency with nonsocial SoA.

Main Results:

  • Social Agency can be conceptualized as a continuum, with the degree of cooperation as the critical dimension.
  • This continuum framework clarifies the relationship between Social Agency and nonsocial Sense of Agency.
  • Identified factors influencing SoA also affect Social Agency, with outstanding empirical questions highlighted.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed continuum model offers a unified perspective on Social Agency.
  • Highlights the importance of cooperation in modulating the Sense of Agency in social contexts.
  • Recommends future research directions and methodological improvements for ecological validity in Social Agency studies.