The Conversation: Free will. Why people believe in it even when they’re being manipulated

 

Magda Osman, Principal Research Associate in Basic and Applied Decision Making at Cambridge Judge Business School, writes about a series of recent studies investigating people’s belief in free will.

“What the findings from our work tells us is that on a fundamental level we want to preserve a belief that we are free to choose. But how much we maintain the belief seems to depend on what is at stake.” Magda says.

Read the full article [theconversation.com]