Constraints of Agency: Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life

Introduction.- Part 1. Historical backgrounds on agency.- Chapter 1: Agency: a historical perspective.- Chapter 2: The providence of associated minds: Agency in the thought of Giambattista Vico and the origins of social and cultural psychology.- Chapter 3: Editorial synthesis: Historical leads for theory construction in psychology.- Part 2: Neurosciences look at Agency.- Chapter 4: Neurobiological perspectives on agency: Ten axioms and ten propositions.-Chapter 5: Agency in life.- Chapter 6: A grand synthesis-aided by considering Systems 1 and 2 and incentive motivation.- Chapter 7: The neuroscience of agency and free will.- Chapter 8: Strategies for agency research.- Chapter 9: Editorial synthesis: Neurobiology of Agency: "Conatograms" and the Ghost in the Machine?.- Part 3: Looking at agency from the top.- Chapter 10: The Relational Basis of Agency: An Integrated Psychological/Theological Approach.- Chapter 11: Agency and Self Experience: The Religious Function of the Psyche.- Chapter 12: Editorial synthesis: Psychology's Purgatory: Situating the theoretical construction of agency.- Part 4: Socio-ecological perspectives on agency.- Chapter 13: Agency of the Psyche: A transdisciplinary philosophy-of-science paradigm.- Chapter 14: Agency and creativity in the midst of social change.- Chapter 15: From individual agency to co-agency.- Chapter 16: Editorial synthesis: The explanatory power of agency.