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International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2017 Let us suppose that we accept that humans can be correctly characterized as agents (and hence held responsible for their actions). Let us further presume that this capacity contrasts with most non-human animals. Thus, since agency is what uniquely constitutes what it is to be human, it must be of supreme importance.
Raymond Paternoster, Ronet Bachman
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Sense of agency in the human brain
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017In adult life, people normally know what they are doing. This experience of controlling one's own actions and, through them, the course of events in the outside world is called 'sense of agency'. It forms a central feature of human experience; however, the brain mechanisms that produce the sense of agency have only recently begun to be investigated ...
Patrick Haggard, Haggard Patrick
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Culture, Narrative, and Human Agency
, 2008 Neo-diffusionism is a class of theories that take the transmission of cultural information as central to a theory of culture. This chapter highlights that culture is part of human nature. The main objective is to outline broad contours of the neodiffusionist thinking and to conceptualize cultural variability in human agency within this framework. In so
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Climate and DevelopmentThe scholarship on climate mobilities has evolved to pay attention to human agency and cultural adaptation. In this viewpoint, we argue that the international organizations (IOs) with formal mandates related to migration governance, refugee protection ...
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2023
Human agency encompasses intentionality, forethought, ownership, purpose, and self-efficacy. This chapter explores these elements at various stages of Dr. Taisha Johnson's life. Dr. Johnson shares her humble beginnings. Dr. Johnson's journey was profoundly shaped by an absentee father, and her supportive mother, Barbara Blackwell.
Jordan P. Everall, Ilona M. Otto
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Human agency encompasses intentionality, forethought, ownership, purpose, and self-efficacy. This chapter explores these elements at various stages of Dr. Taisha Johnson's life. Dr. Johnson shares her humble beginnings. Dr. Johnson's journey was profoundly shaped by an absentee father, and her supportive mother, Barbara Blackwell.
Jordan P. Everall, Ilona M. Otto
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Human agency in the Anthropocene
Ecological Economics, 2020 The human species has been recognized as a new force that has pushed the Earth's system into a new geological epoch referred to as the Anthropocene. This human influence was not conscious, however, but an unintended effect of the consumption of fossil ...
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, 2011 This chapter argues that human agency is free agency. It is freedom, or dominium over one's own actions, which makes a human being different from all other animals; and it is the foundation of the world of the moral, the juridical, and the political, which are all continuous with one another ...
Annabel S. Brett
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Restoring Agency to the Human Actor
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2017A cursory read of the social psychological literature suggests that when people find themselves in strong situations, they fail to display agency. The early classic studies of conformity, obedience, and bystander intervention, for example, are renowned for showing that when challenged by strong situational pressures, participants acquiesced—even if it ...
Swann, William B., Jr., Jetten, Jolanda
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Human agency and human geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1981This commentary discusses the prospectus for a humanistic geography provided by the contributors to D. Ley, M. Samuels (eds) Humanistic geography: prospects and problems. The resurgence of a humanist tradition in geography has drawn its impetus in part from la giographie humaine of Vidal de la Blache, and an examination of the connections between the ...
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Toward a Psychology of Human Agency
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2006This article presents an agentic theory of human development, adaptation, and change. The evolutionary emergence of advanced symbolizing capacity enabled humans to transcend the dictates of their immediate environment and made them unique in their power to shape their life circumstances and the courses their lives take.
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