agentic

That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.

From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).

The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention.

That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).

Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.

Milgram (1974) suggested that one factor contributing to the maintenance of obedience was that the individual in the obedience situation entered into an agentic state, which involves a person's giving up his or her normal moral and ethical standards in favor of those of the authority figure.

Having to do with performance, or achieving status.

If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences.

Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.

Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.

In agentic cognition the ego is a cognitive agent with tasks to accomplish.