Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "illusion of conscious will"

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    • Mistaking Randomness for Free Will 

      Ebert, Jeffrey Paul; Wegner, Daniel M. (Elsevier, 2011)
      Belief in free will is widespread. The present research considered one reason why people may believe that actions are freely chosen rather than determined: they attribute randomness in behavior to free will. Experiment 1 ...

    • Time Warp: Authorship Shapes the Perceived Timing of Actions and Events 

      Ebert, Jeffrey P.; Wegner, Daniel M. (Elsevier, 2010)
      It has been proposed that inferring personal authorship for an event gives rise to intentional binding, a perceptual illusion in which one's action and inferred effect seem closer in time than they otherwise would (Haggard, ...