Abstract This article explores the question of human agency in military targeting. Targeting is one key drivers war. When studied by academic disciplines, much interest has been devoted to ethics and effects Less debated, but focused here, conditions within In literature that does exist on this topic, there a questioning traditional conception at same time lack closer conceptualisation differen...

The sense of agency refers to the subjective feeling controlling one’s own actions, and through them, external events. is a byproduct human movements also greatly shapes perception behaviour. Furthermore, research on human–machine interaction has highlighted importance in joint control between humans automated systems. In this Review, we first provide an overview how influences perceptual effec...

In this paper, I use Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration to examine the issue of human agency in the economic reform in China. As part of my preliminary dissertation research, interviews and archival research are conducted in order to explore the roles played by human agency of laobaixing (common people) in the historic era of structural change in China since 1978. I conclude that the agen...

Amartya Sen’s ideas constitute the core principles of a development approach that has evolved in the Human Development Reports. This approach is a ‘‘paradigm’’ based on the concept of well-being that can help define public policy, but does not embody a set of prescriptions. The current movement from an age of development planning to an age of globalization has meant an increasing attention to a...

Beginning in 1988, the Merced County Human Services Agency in California realized it needed to find a solution to the rising costs of providing human services to a growing population and to the 35-percent turnover rate among its caseworkers. After selecting Andersen Consulting to provide assistance in solving its problems, the agency was helped with a little MAGIC (Merced automated global infor...

Disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability. We must acknowledge the human-made components of both vulnerability and hazard emphasize human agency in order to proactively reduce disaster impacts.

Recent fMRI studies have investigated brain activity involved in the feeling of regret and disappointment by manipulating the feedback participants saw after making a decision to play certain gambles: full-feedback (regret: participant sees the outcomes from both the chosen and unchosen gamble) vs. partial-feedback (disappointment: participant only sees the outcome from chosen gamble). However,...

The well-documented human bias toward agency as a cause and therefore an explanation of observed events is typically attributed to evolutionary selection for a "social brain". Based on a review of developmental and adult behavioral and neurocognitive data, it is argued that the bias toward agency is a result of the default human solution, developed during infancy, to the computational requireme...