The Value of Believing in Free Will
@article{Vohs2008TheVO, title={The Value of Believing in Free Will}, author={K. Vohs and J. Schooler}, journal={Psychological Science}, year={2008}, volume={19}, pages={49 - 54} }
Does moral behavior draw on a belief in free will? Two experiments examined whether inducing participants to believe that human behavior is predetermined would encourage cheating. In Experiment 1, participants read either text that encouraged a belief in determinism (i.e., that portrayed behavior as the consequence of environmental and genetic factors) or neutral text. Exposure to the deterministic message increased cheating on a task in which participants could passively allow a flawed… CONTINUE READING
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