Augmented Humanity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Modeling Augmented Humanity

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 1-38Open Access

3. Historical Metamodels of Agency

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 39-74Open Access

4. Agentic Modality

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 75-102Open Access

5. Problem-Solving

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 103-137Open Access

6. Cognitive Empathy

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 139-167Open Access

7. Self-Regulation

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 169-197Open Access

8. Evaluation of Performance

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 199-223Open Access

9. Learning

   • Peter T. Bryant

   Pages 225-246Open Access

10. Self-Generation

    • Peter T. Bryant

    Pages 247-268Open Access

11. Toward a Science of Augmented Agency

    • Peter T. Bryant

    Pages 269-294Open Access

12. Back Matter

    Pages 295-308

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This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and their social behavioral effects. Across the book, the author highlights the expansion of intelligent processing capability brought about by digitalization and the challenges this exposes for integrating artificial and human capabilities. It includes the altered effects of bounded rationality in problem solving and decision making; related changes in the perception of rationality, plus novel myopias and biases. It also seeks to address cognitive intersubjectivity, learning from performance and agentic self-generation; and the novel methods and patterns of reasoned thought which emerge in a digitalized world; and how these mechanisms will combine in making and remaking the world of human experience and understanding.

This book examines the problematics and prospects for digitally augmented humanity. In doing so, it maps the terrain for a future science of augmented agency. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal to students and scholars of applied psychology, cognitive and behavioral science, organizational psychology and management, business, finance, and digital cultures and humanities.

• behavioral science
• applied psychology
• social cognitive psychology
• organizational design and management
• microeconomics and preferential choice
• artificial intelligence
• cognitive bias
• rationality
• digitization
• bounded rationality
• agency
• problem solving
• trust
• collaboration
• metacognition
• freedom of thought
• cognitive empathy
• cognitive plasticity
• Open Access

“This book provides an insightful introduction to the social and behavioral implications of human-computer integration, aimed at a wide audience from both human and computer sciences. The proposed conceptualization of augmented agency can provide a structural basis for exploring intelligence augmentation and promote further research in the field.” (Evangelia Kavakli, Computing Reviews, October 5, 2022)

• IE Business School, IE University, Madrid, Spain

  Peter T. Bryant

Peter T. Bryant is Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. His research focuses on the behavioral aspects of decision making and innovative capability, and especially their cognitive psychological origins.