This is what she means by "magical thinking": the primitive belief that if you take a certain course of action, the desired consequence will inevitably follow.
("I've just never experienced anything like this," Captain William Hocter, a Navy psychiatrist testified. "It was clear to me that they had made up their mind on a certain course of actions and my recommendations didn't really matter").
Capability is usually defined as the ability to execute a certain course of action (Scheffran et al. 2012).
In choosing "resolutely"—that is, in commiting myself to a certain course of action, a certain way of being in the world—I have given myself the rule that belongs to the role I come to adopt.
If she chooses in one fashion, then a certain course of action will come to fruition; if she chooses in another, then another course of action will come to fruition (1998, p. 120).
Situations in which a member of a population P is willing to engage in a certain course of action provided that a large enough portion of P engages in some appropriate behavior are typical problems of collective action.
The manipulation scenario also sounds plausible because we've seen other companies use their massive data repositories and the users' profiles they generated to subtly encourage a certain course of action.
Feelings like fear or anxiety are designed to get you to adopt a certain course of action.
But I also remember when people listened to the generals in 1967, and we heard a certain course of action in Southeast Asia didn't serve our interests very well".
We also actually enjoy these kinds of gestalts: denominating through some kind of written or spoken self-assertion, that one notion of ourselves, played out in a certain course of behavior, can be initiated or brought to an end.
For example, adoption of a certain course of treatment for malaria could be included in the medical products, service delivery, or even the governance realm.
