AUTHOR=Moore James W. 

TITLE=What Is the Sense of Agency and Why Does it Matter?

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01272

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01272

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Sense of agency refers to the feeling of control over actions and their consequences. In this article I summarize what we currently know about sense of agency; looking at how it is measured and what theories there are to explain it. I then explore some of the potential applications of this research, something that the sense of agency research field has been slow to identify and implement. This is a pressing concern given the increasing importance of ‘research impact.’</p>