• DOI:10.1177/1948550616667616
Corpus ID: 152011660

This Isn’t the Free Will Worth Looking For

@article{Monroe2017ThisIT,
  title={This Isn’t the Free Will Worth Looking For},
  author={A. Monroe and Garrett L. Brady and B. Malle},
  journal={Social Psychological and Personality Science},
  year={2017},
  volume={8},
  pages={191 - 199}
}

A. Monroe, Garrett L. Brady, B. Malle

Published 2017

Psychology

Social Psychological and Personality Science

According to previous research, threatening people’s belief in free will may undermine moral judgments and behavior. Four studies tested this claim. Study 1 used a Velten technique to threaten people’s belief in free will and found no effects on moral behavior, judgments of blame, and punishment decisions. Study 2 used six different threats to free will and failed to find effects on judgments of blame and wrongness. Study 3 found no effects on moral judgment when manipulating general free will… CONTINUE READING

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