Constraints of Agency Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gruber, Craig W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Clark, Matthew G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Klempe, Sven Hroar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Valsiner, Jaan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Annals of Theoretical Psychology ; 12
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Neurosciences.; Cognitive psychology.; General Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further in psychology, using it to better understand and explain psychological processes and behavior. More importantly, this book seeks to put an emphasis on the role of agency in four distinct settings: history of psychology, neuroscie...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Part 1.  Historical backgrounds on agency
• Chapter 1: Agency: a historical perspective
• Chapter 2: The providence of associated minds: Agency in the thought of Giambattista Vico and the origins of social and cultural psychology
• Chapter 3: Editorial synthesis: Historical leads for theory construction in psychology
• Part 2:  Neurosciences look at Agency
• Chapter 4: Neurobiological perspectives on agency: Ten axioms and ten propositions.-Chapter 5: Agency in life
• Chapter 6: A grand synthesis—aided by considering Systems 1 and 2 and incentive motivation
• Chapter 7: The neuroscience of agency and free will
• Chapter 8: Strategies for agency research
• Chapter 9: Editorial synthesis: Neurobiology of Agency:  “Conatograms” and the Ghost in the Machine?
• Part 3: Looking at agency from the top
• Chapter 10: The Relational Basis of Agency: An Integrated Psychological/Theological Approach
• Chapter 11: Agency and Self Experience: The Religious Function of the Psyche
• Chapter 12: Editorial synthesis: Psychology’s Purgatory: Situating the theoretical construction of agency
• Part 4: Socio-ecological perspectives on agency
• Chapter 13: Agency of the Psyche:  A transdisciplinary philosophy-of-science paradigm
• Chapter 14:  Agency and creativity in the midst of social change
• Chapter 15: From individual agency to co-agency
• Chapter 16: Editorial synthesis: The explanatory power of agency.                        .