The Influence Of Intention On Sense Of Agency

The sense of agency is the experience of controlling action to influence events in the environment.The sense of agency needs intention-action-outcome interaction.Intention is an important premise of the sense of agency.Previous studies hold that the sense of agency is stronger when intention is stronger.Searle divides intention into prior intention and action intention.Prior intention emphasizes whether the action satisfies its intention.Action intention points to an intended action.Synofzik divided the sense of agency into three levels: feeling of agency(Fo A),judgment of agency(Jo A)and the agency representation.Feeling of agency is implicate,which belongs to perceptual representation.It susceptible to perceptual feedback.Judgment of agency dependent on the matching of predicted and actual outcomes,and emphasize the consistency of outcomes and goals.When the action intention is high,it will not be the result of my action,that it will think the result is produced by my action,thus enhancing the feeling of agency.Judgment of agency is externality,which obtained through action-result causal judgment.When the prior intention is higher,the “I” will be considered directly,and when the action intention is higher,the “not me” behavior will be judged as the“me” behavior,both of them will strengthen the judgment of agency.The agency representation is social in the conventional system,it can judge whether the behavior result is acceptable or not,and it is easy to be influenced by the emotion,which affects the process of the feeling of agency,the orientation pattern produces relaxed-angry emotion when it pays attention to the action-outcome,and plays a moderating role in the influence of intention on the sense of agency.Therefore,we will explore the influence of prior intention(Research 1)and action intention(Research 2)on the sense of agency,and supplement the multi-level model.The action-result link also has an important influence on the sense of action,and the individual’s orientation pattern affects its attention.Therefore,in the process of the influence of intention on the sense of agency,it will be adjusted by the orientation pattern(Research 3).Based on this,three studies were designed to explore the above questions.In the first study,it is found that prior intention has no influence on the action judgment of the action experience.In the second study,the influence of high or low behavioral intention on feeling of agency and judgment of agency was explored,and the results showed that when the behavioral intention was high,the behavior was more dynamic than when the behavioral intention was low.But the regulatory focus can not adjust the two.In the third study,we explored the orientation mode on intention and sense of agency in the random situation.In general,prior intention has no influence on feeling of agency and judgment of agency,while behavioral intention has a direct influence on feeling of agency and judgment of agency.In the random situation,when the intention is low,the preventive of the orientation mode plays a weaking role.And the promotion of the orientation mode plays a weaking role.