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Sense of Agency in Social Hierarchies.

Authors :
Schwarz, Katharina A.
Tonn, Solveig
Büttner, Johannes
Kunde, Wilfried
Pfister, Roland
Source :
Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. Oct203, Vol. 152 Issue 10, p2957-2976. 20p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Distributing complex actions across agents is commonplace in human society. The objective efficiency of joint actions comes with critical challenges for the sense of agency of individual agents, complicating an accurate formation of these agents' perceived control over actions and action outcomes. Here we report a new experimental paradigm to investigate sense of agency for supervisors and subordinates in hierarchical settings. Results indicate profound differences in the sense of agency between both roles, while also indicating additional contributions of such situational factors as degrees of freedom, action decision versus action execution, outcome valence, and veto options. We further observed a tight coupling of sense of agency and sense of responsibility, with only weak links to affective responses to the action outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00963445
Volume :
152
Issue :
10
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
172798146
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001426