Several law systems punish nonactions such as failures to render assistance, although it is unknown if people spontaneously experience a sense of authorship for the consequences of their not acting. Here we provide evidence that events caused by deliberate choices not to act can indeed give rise to a vivid sense of agency. In three experiments, participants reported a sense of agency for events following nonactions and, crucially, temporal binding between nonactions and subsequent consequences suggested a sense of agency for nonactions even at an implicit level. These findings indicate that a sense of agency is not confined to overt body movements. At the same time, agency was more pronounced when the same event resulted from an action rather than being the consequence of a nonaction, highlighting the importance of ascribing different degrees of responsibility for the consequences of acting and not acting.

中文翻译：

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一无所有：代理故意不作为。

尽管尚不清楚人们是否会因不采取行动而自发地感受到一种作者身份，但有几种法律制度会惩罚诸如不提供援助之类的不作为。在这里，我们提供证据表明，由于故意选择不采取行动而导致的事件确实可以引起生动的代理感。在三个实验中，参与者报告了对不采取行动后的事件有一种代理意识，而且至关重要的是，即使不进行隐含的干预，不采取行动与后续后果之间的时间联系也暗示了一种对不采取行动的代理意识。这些发现表明，一种机构意识不仅仅局限于明显的身体运动。同时，当同一事件是由某行为而不是无为的结果导致的，代理则更为明显。