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What does agency afford the self?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2018

Bradley Franks  and
Benjamin G. Voyer
Bradley Franks
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS), London School of Economics & Political Science, Queens House, 55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ, UK. b.franks@lse.ac.uk http://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/People/Dr-Bradley-Franks
Benjamin G. Voyer
Affiliation:
ESCP Europe, UK. bvoyer@escpeurope.eu www.benvoyer.com
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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