{
  "id": "morale.collective",
  "term": "morale",
  "sense": "collective",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The reach a collective self reads itself as having, kept across its members at one time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "reach.action",
      "read.information",
      "member.social",
      "time.dimension",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "across.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "Each member's reading of what the group can do feeds the others'; the shared reading is morale, and it sets how much each member will try, so it can make itself true in either direction.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a group-wide self-read of reach",
      "self-fulfilling in both directions"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "self-efficacy.calibrated",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "self-efficacy is one self reading its reach; morale is a group doing it at once"
    },
    {
      "id": "self-fulfilling-prophecy.stacked-dependency",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "morale is a standing case of the prophecy"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "animal-spirits.urge",
    "consumer-confidence.measured",
    "crisis-of-confidence.collapse",
    "feel-good-factor.rising",
    "investor-sentiment.read"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "morale"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-morale.collective"
}