Le Besnerais, Alexis; Moore, James W.; Berberian, Bruno and Grynszpan, Ouriel. 2024. Sense of agency in joint action: a critical review of we-agency. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1331084. ISSN 1664-1078 [Article]

Preview	Text fpsyg-15-1331084.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (548kB) | Preview
	Text we-agency_Frontiers_2nd_submission.pdf - Accepted Version Permissions: Administrator Access Only Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (408kB)

Abstract or Description

The sense of agency refers to the experience of control over voluntary actions and their effects. There is growing interest in the notion of we-agency, whereby individual sense of agency is supplanted by a collective agentic experience. The existence of this unique agentic state would have profound implications for human responsibility, and, as such, warrants further scrutiny. In this paper, we review the concept of we-agency and examine whether evidence supports it. We argue that this concept entails multiplying hypothetical agentic states associated with joint action, thus ending up with an entangled phenomenology that appears somewhat speculative when weighted against the available evidence. In light of this, we suggest that the concept of we-agency should be abandoned in favour of a more parsimonious framework for the sense of agency in joint action.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1331084
Additional Information:	Funding: The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) grants ANR-20-CE33-0012 (ANR PRC). The funding source was not involved in conducting the research study.
Data Access Statement:	The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
Keywords:	sense of agency, collective identity, joint action, intentional binding, responsibility, human-machine interaction
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 16 January 2024 Accepted 31 January 2024 Published
Item ID:	34896
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2024 09:47
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2024 09:52
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34896

View statistics for this item...

Edit Record (login required)