What does agency afford the self?. (27th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Franks, Bradley; Voyer, Benjamin G.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 41(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-03-27
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17000681
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: We welcome Doris's dual systems, social account of agency and self. However, we suggest that a level of affordances regarding agency is interpolated between those dual systems. We also suggest a need to consider joint ("we") agency in addition to individual ("I") agency, and we suggest a more fundamental role for culture in configuring both the values entering the dialogue that generates the sense of agency and self, and the nature of the dialogue itself.