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Believing in free will makes you feel more like your true self

  • Written by Elizabeth Seto, Ph.D. Candidate in Social and Personality Psychology, Texas A&M University
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Do we have free will? This is a question that scholars have debated for centuries and will probably continue to debate for centuries to come.

This isn’t a question I can answer, but what I am interested in is “what happens if we do (or do not)...

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