Science & the Big Questions

How Much Control Do You Really Have Over Your Actions? These Brain Regions Provide Clues

Neuroscientists are beginning to pinpoint the regions of the brain involved in the perception of free will.

Science

Believing Addiction Reduces Free Will May Hamper Efforts To Quit

Telling people they cannot control addictive behaviors may discourage them from trying to control addictive behaviors, thereby needlessly prolonging addiction.

Science Trends

Topics: Agency Free Will

The Believing Brain

The human brain has a compulsion to attribute meaning to what happens in our lives through a belief system.

All In The Mind, ABC Radio National

Topics: Agency Belief Brian Greene Cognition Meaning Spirituality

What Makes Deceit Such a Hard Habit to Break?

New research gets at the psychology behind serial misconduct.

Kellogg Insight

Topics: Adam Waytz Agency Deception Ethics Honesty Morality

Self-Evident

Contrary to recent opinion, there is such a thing as the self, and it is empirically amenable to scientific investigation.

Aeon

Topics: Agency

Science Progressively Modifies Our Understanding of Agency

Domains in which we find agent-explanations compelling have steadily declined.

Psychology Today

Topics: Agency