{
  "term": "Behavioral Law of Agency",
  "slug": "behavioral-law-of-agency",
  "concept_id": "TBD",
  "tile_type": "mechanism",
  "version": "5.8",
  "updated": "2026-07-01",
  "url": "https://agencyscience.org/lexicon/behavioral-law-of-agency/",
  "in_brief": "The Behavioral Law of Agency is a decision-node model: at a moment of choice, what a person does is read through three channels they can actually reach, not through who they are.",
  "glossary_definition": "The Behavioral Law of Agency is a functional decision-node model that treats what a person or organization does at a moment of choice as the output of three engineerable channels, State, Story, and Friction, rather than as evidence of fixed character.",
  "license": "CC BY-ND 4.0",
  "definedTermSet": "The Lexicon of Agency Science",
  "publisher": "The Institute of Agency Science",
  "author": "Steven J. Martel",
  "copyrightHolder": "Martel IP Holdings, Inc.",
  "related": [
    "power-protocol"
  ]
}