Reducing self-control by weakening belief in free will
Believing in free will may arise from a biological need for control.
People induced to disbelieve in free will show impulsive and antisocial tendencies, suggesting a reduction of the willingness to exert self-control. (…) findings show that undermining free will can degrade self-control and provide insights into how disbelieving in free will leads to antisocial tendencies.
I do what I whant. sorta.
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Prime Time Forensic Neuropsychology
Apparently there’s gonna be a new show about a neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia, off his meds, whose sexy former student becomes an FBI agent that keeps calling up the professor up to help solve crimes.
…the extensive research done with doctors at UCLA and resident expert David Eagleman, Ph.D., author of “Incognito: the Hidden Life of the Brain,” will inform the show’s narrative. [via]
A trufax mentally-unstable-brain-expert-solves-crimes-committed-by-questionables-by-using-science day in the life exposé you guys. ‘course I’m gonna watch.
Brought to you by grad school.
