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Reconceptualising the sense of agency: expanding Decision-level Agency as mental action in the era of generative AI

2025-12-15

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<p>The sense of agency (SoA) - the experience of controlling one’s actions and, through them, events in the external world - is a cornerstone of cognitive science, psychology, and philosophy, underpinning autonomy and responsibility. Yet research on SoA has overwhelmingly focused on Outcome-level Agency (control over external effects) and, to a lesser extent, Action-level Agency (control over bodily movements). A...

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Literature Corpus work: 5c39452a-2323-59e5-b094-c8419f69da9a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9nhs2_v1

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