The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of communicative intention on action. In Experiment 1 participants were requested to reach towards an object, grasp it, and either simply lift it (individual condition) or lift it with the intent to communicate a meaning to a partner (communicative condition). Movement kinematics were recorded using a three-dimensional motion analysis ...

In the philosophical theory of communicative action, rationality refers to interpersonal communication rather than to a knowing subject. Thus, a social view of rationality is suggested. The theory differentiates between two kinds of rationality, the emancipative communicative and the strategic or instrumental reasoning. Using experimental designs in an fMRI setting, recent studies explored simi...

AIM To argue that creating communicative spaces in an action research study gave voice to young mothers who may otherwise have remained voiceless. BACKGROUND Underpinning the concept of the communicative space in action research is the critical social theory of Jürgen Habermas, in particular, his theory of communicative action and the ideal speech situation. The author argues that in collabor...

Implementation of the Young Citizens Program (YCP), a health promotion intervention, is reported. In this paper we highlight the YCP in a study designed to address HIV/AIDS community competence in northern Tanzania. Adolescents, ages 10-14, participated in a 28 week scripted, modular curriculum in which they acquired skills as health agents to educate and mobilize their communities in coordinat...

The communicative action perspective of business processes and information systems has attracted much attention recently. A viable approach in this area is: Action Workflow. This paper investigates the use of Action Workflow as a generic business framework, relating it to the alternative Business as Action game Theory. The latter provides a more exhaustive description of various business action...