Culturally Conferred Conceptions of Agency: A Key to Social Perception of Persons, Groups, and Other Actors

By Michael W. Morris, Tanya Menon, D. Ames. 2001

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Blaming leaders for organizational accidents: Proxy logic in collective- versus individual-agency cultures (2006, background): “Morris et al. (2001) have argued that the Western conception of personal agency is a legacy of the Western religious and philosophical tradition that emphasizes individual soul, individual rights, and individual freedom, whereas the East Asian conception of collective agency is legacy of the…”
Artificial Intelligence in Utilitarian vs. Hedonic Contexts: The “Word-of-Machine” Effect (2020, background): “Lay beliefs are developed either directly through personal experience (Ross and Nisbett 1991) or indirectly from the environment (Morris, Menon, and Ames 2001).”
The debate over understanding in AI’s large language models (2022, background): “Researchers disagree on the extent to which concepts are domain-specific and innate versus more general-purpose and learned [14, 30, 31, 53, 75, 85], the degree to which concepts are grounded via embodied metaphors [28, 46, 61], are represented in the brain via dynamic, situation-based simulations [”
Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? (2005, methodology): “In general accord with this notion, Morris, Menon, and Ames (2001) argued that people hold implicit theories of agency (ITA), according to which an entity such as an individual, a group, or a supernatural being can be seen to possess intentionality and autonomy.”
Intuitions about consciousness: Experimental studies (2008, background): “When research in this tradition has turned its attention to the topic of groups, it has invariably concluded that people truly do classify some groups as agents (Bloom & Veres 1999; Kashima et al. 2005; Morris et al. 2001; O'Laughlin & Malle 2002).”