Pref. signed (p. [3]): "Ray Potter. Pawtucket, April, 1823." Includes bibliographical references. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin backfiles 2011
Oliver Genschow, Emiel Cracco, Jana Schneider, John Protzko, David Wisniewski, Marcel Braß, Jonathan W. Schooler,
... and popular media put forward the idea that free will is an illusion, the question has risen what would happen if people stopped believing in free will. Psychological research has investigated this question by testing the consequences of experimentally weakening people's free will beliefs. The results of these investigations have been ... unsuccessful replications. This raises two fundamental questions: Can free will beliefs be manipulated, and do such manipulations have ... unpublished), we show that exposing individuals to anti-free will manipulations decreases belief in free will and increases ...
Tópico(s): Psychology of Social Influence
2022 - SAGE Publishing | Personality and Social Psychology Review
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Xin Zhao, Adrienne Wente, María Fernández Flecha, Denise Segovia Galvan, Alison Gopnik, Tamar Kushnir,
... in relation to children's changing belief in "free will" - the possibility of acting against and inhibiting strong ... 441) answered questions to gauge their belief in free will and completed a series of self-control and ... self-control, as well as changes in their free will beliefs. Cultural context played a role in the timing of these emerging free will beliefs: Singaporean and Peruvian children's beliefs changed ... moderated the link between self-control abilities and free will beliefs: Individual differences in self-control behaviors were ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Differences and Values
2021 - Elsevier BV | Cognition
National Library of Medicine (NCBI)
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Aaron Schurger, Pengbo Hu, Joanna Pak, Adina L. Roskies,
... a fulcrum for discussion about the neuroscience of free will.Recent computational models provide an alternative framework for ... the relevance of the RP for discussions of free will. The readiness potential (RP), a slow buildup of ... intention to move to argue that we lack free will. The RP's informativeness about self-generated action and derivatively about free will has prompted continued research on this neural phenomenon. ... for understanding volition and the philosophical problem of free will. The readiness potential (RP), a slow buildup of ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
2021 - Elsevier BV | Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Oliver Genschow, Heinz Hawickhorst, Davide Rigoni, Ellen Aschermann, Marcel Braß,
... consequences of casting doubts about individuals’ belief in free will. Research suggests that experimentally reducing free will beliefs might affect how individuals evaluate others’ behavior. Past research has demonstrated that reduced free will beliefs decrease laypersons’ tendency toward retributive punishment. This ... an argument for the idea that promoting anti-free will viewpoints in the public media might have severe ... judges ( N = 87) are affected by reading anti-free will messages. The results demonstrate that although reading anti- ...
Tópico(s): Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Social Psychological and Personality Science
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Nicholas R. Buttrick, Balázs Aczél, Lena Fanya Aeschbach, Bence E. Bakos, Florian Brühlmann, Heather M. Claypool, Joachim Hüffmeier, Márton Kovács, Kurt Schuepfer, Péter Szécsi, Attila Szuts, Orsolya Szöke, Manuela Thomae, Ann-Kathrin Torka, Ryan J. Walker, Michael Wood,
Does convincing people that free will is an illusion reduce their sense of personal responsibility? Vohs and Schooler (2008) found that participants reading from a passage “debunking” free will cheated more on experimental tasks than did those ... passage, an effect mediated by decreased belief in free will. However, this finding was not replicated by Embley, ... Sorolla (2015), who found that reading arguments against free will had no effect on cheating in their sample. ... study investigated whether hard-to-understand arguments against free will and a low-reliability measure of free-will ...
Tópico(s): Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Charlotte Eben, Zhang Chen, Emiel Cracco, Marcel Braß, Joël Billieux, Frederick Verbruggen,
... study, the authors manipulated the participants’ belief in free will in a between-subject design and subsequently measured ... slowing in the group with reduced belief in free will (anti-free will group) compared with a control group in which belief in free will was not manipulated. In the present study, we used the same task procedure and the same free will manipulation (Crick text) in an attempt to replicate ... also used a questionnaire to measure beliefs in free will as an independent manipulation check. We found a ...
Tópico(s): Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
2020 - Royal Society | Royal Society Open Science
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Andrew E. Monroe, Dominic W. Ysidron,
Free will is often appraised as a necessary input to for holding others morally or legally responsible for ... desire to punish motivate people's belief in free will. Three replication experiments (Studies 1-2b) attempt to ... suggests that immoral behaviors do not uniquely influence free will judgments. Instead, our nonviolation model argues that norm ... bad, or strange-cause people to attribute more free will to agents. Across replication experiments we found no ... causes people to increase their general belief in free will. By contrast, we replicated the finding that people ...
Tópico(s): Psychology of Social Influence
2020 - American Psychological Association | Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Renatas Berniûnas, Audrius Beinorius, Vilius Dranseika, Vytis Silius, Paulius Rimkevičius,
It has been argued that belief in free will is socially consequential and psychologically universal. In this paper we look at the folk concept of free will and its critical assessment in the context of ... a widespread consensus about the conceptual content of free will? We compared English "free will" with its lexical equivalents in Lithuanian, Hindi, Chinese ... Lithuanian, Chinese, Hindi and Mongolian lexical expressions of "free will" do not refer to the same concept free will. What kind people have been studied so far? ...
Tópico(s): Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
2020 - Elsevier BV | Consciousness and Cognition
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 19 (1851). Published in various locations in the United States. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Jim A. C. Everett, Connie J. Clark, Peter Meindl, Jamie B. Luguri, Brian D. Earp, Jesse Graham, Peter H. Ditto, Azim Shariff,
... fourteen studies, we tested whether political conservatives' stronger free will beliefs were linked to stronger and broader tendencies ... Study 2, we show that conservatives report higher free will belief, and this is statistically mediated by the ... political conservatism is associated with higher attributions of free will for specific events.Turning to experimental manipulations to ... as equally wrong there is no difference in free will attributions (Study 4); when conservatives see an action as less wrong than liberals, they attribute less free will (Study 5); and specific perceptions of wrongness account ...
Tópico(s): Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
2020 - American Psychological Association | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 5 (1837). Imprint varies. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
Connie J. Clark, Bo Winegard, Roy F. Baumeister,
... philosophers have attempted to discern whether laypeople find free will compatible with a scientifically deterministic understanding of the ... discrepant findings: People are strongly motivated to preserve free will and moral responsibility, and thus do not have stable, logically rigorous notions of free will. Seven studies support this hypothesis by demonstrating that ... considered concrete instances of moral behavior found compatibilist free will more sufficient for moral responsibility than participants who ...
Tópico(s): Political Philosophy and Ethics
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Psychology
Description based on: vol. 2, no. 5 (1837). Imprint varies. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin 2013 02
... freely is captured under the umbrella concept of "free will," which designates an ability that plays a crucial ... claim that neuroscience research challenges the existence of free will/voluntary action while some who adopt stronger eliminativist stances have gone as far as describing free will as an illusion. Contrary to that, those relying ... of folk psychological concepts of voluntary action and free will in, for example, the domains of ethics and ... that the phenomena captured by the concepts describing free will and voluntary action are dynamic and responsive to ...
Tópico(s): Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
2017 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Psychology