This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further
in psychology using it to better understand and explain psychological
processes and behavior. More importantly, this book seeks to put an
emphasis on the role of agency in four distinct settings: history of
psychology, neuroscience, psychology of religion, and sociocultural
theories of co-agency. In Volume 12 of the Annals of Theoretical
Psychology the contributors explore a number of new ways to look at
agency in psychology. This volume seeks to develop a systematic theory
of axioms for agency. It describes implications for research and
practice that are founded on an understanding of the person as an actor
in the world. This book also has implications for research and practice
across psychology's sub-fields uniting the discipline through an agentic
view of the person