Social Transmission of Experience of Agency: An Experimental Study.

ABSTRACT: The sense of controlling one's own actions is fundamental to normal human mental function, and also underlies concepts of social responsibility for action. However, it remains unclear how the wider social context of human action influences sense of agency. Using a simple experimental design, we investigated, for the first time, how observing the action of another person or a robot could potentially influence one's own sense of agency. We assessed how observing another's action might change the perceived temporal relationship between one's own voluntary actions and their outcomes, which has been proposed as an implicit measure of sense of agency. Working in pairs, participants chose between two action alternatives, one rewarded more frequently than the other, while watching a rotating clock

SUBMITTER: Khalighinejad N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003881 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature