During performance, the actions executed by the reactive module are tracked by a high level intention module (also a fusion ART network) that learns to associate sequences of actions with context and goals.
Over three-quarters of participants were assessed as having high perceived threat, only half of the participants had high perceived efficacy on the RBD Scale, and 66% had a high-level intention to quit smoking in the next 3 months.
An important feature of we-intentions in their role as creators of social institutions is that they can be iterated: given a we-intention of the form "X counts as Y in C," the "Y" in the intention may become the "X" in a higher-level intention.
h is the set of high-level intentions. 2.
l is the set of low-level intentions; m is the set of mid-level intentions; h is the set of high-level intentions.
Mid-level intentions are related to high-level intentions in that they are used to achieve the goals defined by high-level intentions, and low-level intentions provide a means to achieve goals defined by intentions at either of the higher levels.
High-level intentions are the behaviors, as well as the beliefs and emotions that drive them, that one actor will use to influence another actor.
For instance, we already know that the development of higher-level intentions gives rise to low- and middle-level intentions, and that high-level intentions can only be expressed through some combination of these.
Interactions between any of these types of intentions are necessarily isomorphic, similar to those between high-level intentions, because they all exist within the same set of physical parameters.
This feature of their model allowed them to account for the observation that switch costs increase if the current stimulus was last seen in the context of a competing task (Waszak et al. 2003), a finding which suggests that stimuli can activate associated high-level intentions to perform competing tasks.
We found a significant effect of intention at baseline on intention at T1 towards using a cholesterol self-test, indicating that participants who had a high level of intention at baseline have a higher level of intention at T1 as compared to participants with a lower level of intention at baseline (Table 3).
