9780262047005-0262047004-The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

ISBN-13: 9780262047005
ISBN-10: 0262047004
Author: Michael Tomasello
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover 176 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780262047005
ISBN-10: 0262047004
Author: Michael Tomasello
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover 176 pages

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The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans (ISBN-13: 9780262047005 and ISBN-10: 0262047004), written by authors Michael Tomasello, was published by The MIT Press in 2022. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Evolutionary Psychology (Psychology & Counseling, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Evolution) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Evolutionary Psychology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $8.54.

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A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human psychological agency.
Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every contingency they might possibly encounter. Instead, Nature builds some organisms to function as feedback control systems that pursue goals, make informed behavioral decisions about how best to pursue those goals in the current situation, and then monitor behavioral execution for effectiveness. Nature builds psychological agents. In a bold new theoretical proposal, Michael Tomasello advances a typology of the main forms of psychological agency that emerged on the evolutionary pathway to human beings.
Tomasello outlines four main types of psychological agency and describes them in evolutionary order of emergence. First was the goal-directed agency of ancient vertebrates, then came the intentional agency of ancient mammals, followed by the rational agency of ancient great apes, ending finally in the socially normative agency of ancient humans. Each new form of psychological organization represented increased complexity in the planning, decision-making, and executive control of behavior. Each also led to new types of experience of the environment and, in some cases, of the organism’s own psychological functioning, leading ultimately to humans’ experience of an objective and normative world that governs all of their thoughts and actions. Together, these proposals constitute a new theoretical framework that both broadens and deepens current approaches in evolutionary psychology.

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