ArticleNature communications2020
The effect of military training on the sense of agency and outcome processing.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The impact of facial expression and communicative gaze of a humanoid robot on individual Sense of Agency.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- On the cognitive mechanisms supporting prosocial disobedience in a post-genocidal context.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Neuromodulation of the right temporoparietal junction alters amygdala functional connectivity to authority pressure.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Sense of agency predicts severity of moral judgments.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The anti-anxiety drug lorazepam changes implicit behaviors but not explicit evaluations of sense of agency under authoritative pressure: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A novel experimental approach to study disobedience to authority.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Social Agency as a continuum.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Review
- The obedient mind and the volitional brain: A neural basis for preserved sense of agency and sense of responsibility under coercion.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Armed forces often rely on strict hierarchical organization, where people are required to follow orders. In two cross-sectional studies, we investigate whether or not working in a military context influences the sense of agency and outcome processing, and how different durations (junior cadets vs senior cadets) and types (cadets vs privates) of military experience may modulate these effects. Participants could administer painful electrical shocks to a 'victim' in exchange for money, either by their own free choice, or following orders of the experimenter. Results indicate that working in a strictly hierarchical structure may have a generalized negative impact on one's own sense of agency and outcome processing by reducing it, even when participants could freely decide their action. However, trained officers showed an enhanced sense of agency and outcome processing. This study offers insights on the potential for training the sense of agency and outcome processing.
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