Sense of agency in joint action: a critical review of we-agency
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.The study questions collective agency, or we-agency, suggesting it’s an entangled concept. Researchers propose abandoning we-agency for a simpler framework explaining the sense of agency in joint actions.
Area Of Science
- Cognitive Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Philosophy of Mind
Background
- The sense of agency (SoA) is the feeling of controlling one's actions and their outcomes.
- We-agency proposes a collective experience of agency, supplanting individual SoA.
- The implications of we-agency for responsibility and joint action warrant scientific investigation.
Purpose Of The Study
- To review the concept of we-agency.
- To examine the empirical evidence supporting we-agency.
- To propose an alternative framework for understanding agency in joint action.
Main Methods
- Literature review of existing research on agency and joint action.
- Conceptual analysis of the we-agency construct.
- Theoretical argumentation regarding the parsimony of proposed frameworks.
Main Results
- The concept of we-agency appears to multiply hypothetical agentic states within joint actions.
- The phenomenology associated with we-agency is currently speculative and lacks robust empirical support.
- Existing evidence does not strongly support the existence of a distinct we-agency state.
Conclusions
- The concept of we-agency should be abandoned.
- A more parsimonious framework is needed to explain the sense of agency in joint action.
- Future research should focus on refining models of individual and shared agency in collective tasks.
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