Abstract:Sense of Agency (SoA) is the responsibility felt over our actions and their effects. Social Agency is when SoA occurs in a social context. Whether and how SoA and Social Agency differ remains largely unknown. As non-social interaction is fundamentally governed by the laws of physics and material properties, action-effect contiguity is expected. This is not so when interacting with conspecifics, who we know act under their own volition, at a time of their choosing. Therefore, temporal contingency is a character… Show more
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