agentic
English
Etymology
agent + -ic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɪ.ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/, /ə.ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/
Adjective
agentic (comparative more agentic, superlative most agentic)
- That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
- 1994, Larry Cochran, Joan Laub, Becoming an Agent: Patterns and Dynamics for Shaping Your Life, page 31:
- From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).
- 1998, Arie Halachmi, Peter B. Boorsma, Inter and Intra Government Arrangements for Productivity, page 39:
- The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention.
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- (psychology, by extension, of a psychological state of a person) that obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
- Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.
- 2013, Kenneth S. Bordens, Irwin A. Horowitz, Social Psychology:
- Milgram (1974) suggested that one factor contributing to the maintenance of obedience was that the individual in the obedience situation entered into an agentic state, which involves a person's giving up his or her normal moral and ethical standards in favor of those of the authority figure.
- (psychology) Having to do with performance, or achieving status.
- 1985, Steve Duck, Daniel Perlman, Understanding Personal Relationships, page 98:
- If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences.
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- (psychology) Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.
- Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.
- 2000, Tobin Hart, Peter L. Nelson, Kaisa Puhakka, Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness, page 186:
- In agentic cognition the ego is a cognitive agent with tasks to accomplish.
- 2006, Rodney A. Reynolds, Robert Woods, Jason D. Baker, Handbook of Research on Electronic Surveys and Measurements, page 367:
- Within this framework, with gender role self-perception conceptualized as independent of biological sex, the agentic construct includes characteristics such as goal-orientation, assertiveness, protectiveness, self-activation, and having the urge to master.
- 2011, Patrick McNamara, The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease, page 57:
- We have seen that the agentic self identifies values to be striven after, then makes decisions about which values/goals to pursue and then controls pursuit of those goals.
Related terms
- agency
- agent
Translations
that behaves like an agent
concept in Milgram's theory
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See also
Milgram experiment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia