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The free will inventory: measuring beliefs about agency and responsibility.

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Several ways that it could be used in future research are discussed, some as yet unanswered questions that are ripe for interdisciplinary investigation are highlighted, and researchers are encouraged to join the efforts to answer these questions.
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This article is published in Consciousness and Cognition.The article was published on 2014-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Determinism & Free will.

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An Essay on Free Will

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This Isn’t the Free Will Worth Looking For General Free Will Beliefs Do Not Influence Moral Judgments, Agent-Specific Choice Ascriptions Do

TL;DR: This article used a Velten technique to threaten people's belief in free will, which may undermine moral judgments and behavior, and four studies tested this claim and found that threatening people with free will may undermine their moral judgments.
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Making sense of agency: Belief in free will as a unique and important construct

TL;DR: The belief in free will is the general belief that human behavior is free from internal and external constraints across situations for both self and others as mentioned in this paper. But it has not yet captured unique aspects of agency.
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Belief in free will affects causal attributions when judging others’ behavior

TL;DR: Overall, these studies show that believing in free will impacts fundamental social-cognitive processes that are involved in the understanding of others’ behavior, and psychological research demonstrates that questioning its existence impacts social behavior.
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