Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal

By F. Brigard. 2010

238 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c6fc57a1b56fc57c1659e7766e8afb7b3f8c795b

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Gilad Feldman
2. Lauren Brewer
3. Roy F. Baumeister

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Lauren Brewer
2. Gilad Feldman
3. Roy F. Baumeister
4. Kathleen D. Vohs
5. Martin S. Hagger
6. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
7. Chris Stiff
8. Chantelle Wood

Citations in the corpus

• Making sense of agency: Belief in free will as a unique and important construct (2017, background): “Although most cultures operate on the basis of some degree of belief in freedom of choice (Sarkissian et al., 2010), people vary in the extent to which they regard human beings, including themselves, as having free will (Baumeister, 2008a).”
• Believing versus Disbelieving in Free Will: Correlates and Consequences (2012, background): “Sarkissian et al. (2010) showed that majorities in quite different cultures believe in free will and consider the world to be essentially indeterministic.”