The weirdness of belief in free will
| Autor: | Vilius Dranseika, Audrius Beinorius, Paulius Rimkevičius, Renatas Berniūnas, Vytis Silius |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cognitive anthropology
media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Free will Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Language Hindi Psychological research 05 social sciences Lithuanian Cross-cultural studies language.human_language Epistemology Personal Autonomy language Psychology Experimental philosophy 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Consciousness and cognition. 87 |
| ISSN: | 1090-2376 |
| Popis: | It has been argued that belief in free will is socially consequential and psychologically universal. In this paper we look at the folk concept of free will and its critical assessment in the context of recent psychological research. Is there a widespread consensus about the conceptual content of free will? We compared English "free will" with its lexical equivalents in Lithuanian, Hindi, Chinese and Mongolian languages and found that unlike Lithuanian, Chinese, Hindi and Mongolian lexical expressions of "free will" do not refer to the same concept free will. What kind people have been studied so far? A review of papers indicate that, overall, 91% of participants in studies on belief in free will were WEIRD. Thus, given that free will has no cross-culturally universal conceptual content and that most of the reviewed studies were based on WEIRD samples, belief in free will is not a psychological universal. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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