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ArticleRoyal Society open science2020

Cultural pressure and biased responding in free will attitudes.

Emiel Cracco, Carlos González-García, Ian Hussey, Senne Braem, David Wisniewski

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Relating free will beliefs and attitudes.Royal Society open science · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Emiel CraccoDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4043-5992
Carlos González-GarcíaDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6627-5777
Ian HusseyDepartment of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-8906-7559
Senne BraemDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2619-8225
David WisniewskiDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4793-1171

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whether you believe free will exists has profound effects on your behaviour, across different levels of processing, from simple motor action to social cognition. It is therefore important to understand which specific lay theories are held in the general public and why. Past research largely focused on investigating free will beliefs (FWB, 'Do you think free will exists?'), but largely ignored a second key aspect: free will attitudes (FWA, 'Do you like/value will?'). Attitudes are often independently predictive of behaviour, relative to beliefs, yet we currently know very little about FWAs in the general public. One key issue is whether such attitudes are subject to biased, socially desirable responding. The vast majority of the general public strongly believes in the existence of free will, which might create cultural pressure to value free will positively as well. In this registered report, we used a very large (

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attitudesbeliefsdeterminismexperimental philosophyfree willopen science

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PMID32968494
PMCPMC7481697

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