(Sumner 1987, 28) This normative ability confers freedom in a different sense.
This is the normative ability to exercise authority in a certain way.
A normative power, on this understanding, is the capacity or ability to effect a change in the relevant normative landscape of rights, duties, privileges, and so on.
Normative power views grew out of the natural law tradition, and their patron is perhaps Aquinas, with his focus on the will and its ability to bind itself.
Analyses in the present study focused on the normative and ability subscales in particular.
In contrast to normative goals, ability goals did not exhibit a relationship with the effect of expectations on performance, r(18) = −.144, p =.544.
Participants exhibited a broad range of scores on both the normative and ability goal subscales of the Achievement Goal Inventory (normative M = 3.625, SD = 1.107, min = 1, max = 5; ability M = 4.367, SD = 1.048, min = 1.333, max = 6).
Achievement goals can be subdivided into performance versus learning/mastery goals (Elliott & Dweck, 1988), and performance goals can be further classified as either normative or ability goals (Grant & Dweck, 2003).
Several common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at apolipoprotein E (ApoE) have been linked with late onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease and declining normative cognitive ability in elder people, but we are unclear about their relationship with cognition in children.
When it comes to morality, the most basic issue concerns our capacity for normative guidance: our ability to be motivated by norms of behavior and feeling through judgments about how people ought to act and respond in various circumstances (Joyce 2006, Kitcher 2006a,b, 2011, and Machery and Mallon 2010).
