Sentence examples for perceived agency from inspiring English sources

Two such qualities are perceived agency (e.g., ability to think and form intentions) and moral agency (e.g., capacity to engage in moral or immoral actions).

When attention-related action slips occur during the task, participants reported substantially decreased self control as well as a high degree of perceived agency attributed to the errant hand.

As compared to models wearing plain clothing, models wearing provocative clothing were attributed less perceived agency (e.g., ability to reason, ability to choose) and less moral agency [e.g., "how intentional do you believe the woman's behavior is?" (p. 463)].

These effects are mediated by a mechanism that involves impact appraisal, response appraisal, perceived agency and interpersonal factors.

The lack of perceived agency to reflexively 'choose' to (dis trust public hospitals questions, in a Luhmannian sense, whether public patients are indeed 'trusting' at all [ 64].

PBRN-QI districts also had increases in perceived agency-wide multidisciplinary collaboration.

If we perceive agency as "… the network of institutions and actors that through their actions and interactions 'produce' development" (Kothari and Minogue 2002), then the focus becomes even more obvious.

"In my more than two decades on the other side," Mr. Pitt said in an interview this week, "I perceived an agency that had become somewhat insular, an agency that did not always take criticism well, and an agency that needed to constantly find new ways to do old things".

GPs distrusted input from children's social care when they perceived this agency to be underestimating the seriousness of the problem ('on the edge' families) or to be responding in an unnecessarily aggressive and punitive manner ('was it, wasn't it' families; see table 1).

Unless, of course, Howard's perceived free-agency solution is really a strategy to avoid missing out on the playoffs — which Williams will do unhappily for a second straight season.

The S.E.C. wrung an apology out of the bank, which the agency perceived as scoring a victory, but which critics called inadequate.