Intentionality is a characteristic of an individual’s acts that requires the individual to have goals, desires, and standards, to select behaviors that are in the service of attaining the goal, and to call into conscious awareness a desired future state. It is the power of minds to be about something, to represent or to stand for things, properties and states of affairs. Mental states like thoughts, beliefs, desires, and hopes exhibit intentionality in the sense that they are always directed on, or at, something. ^{apa.org 1 2 3}