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Clever hands: uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communicationDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:5-19. 2003..In this paradigm, the answers were often attributed to the other...- How to think, say, or do precisely the worst thing for any occasionDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 325:48-50. 2009..Such ironies can be overcome when effective control strategies are deployed and mental load is minimized... - Précis of the illusion of conscious willDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Behav Brain Sci 27:649-59; discussion 659-92. 2004..Conscious will, in this view, is an indication that we think we have caused an action, not a revelation of the causal sequence by which the action was produced... - Vicarious agency: experiencing control over the movements of othersDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:838-48. 2004..Such vicarious agency was not felt when the instructions followed the movements, and participants' own covet movement mimicry was not essential to the influence of previews on reported control... - Dream rebound: the return of suppressed thoughts in dreamsDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 15:232-6. 2004..This effect was observed regardless of emotional attraction to the person... - Voluntary involuntariness: thought suppression and the regulation of the experience of willDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Conscious Cogn 12:684-94. 2003..There was a weak trend for suppression to enhance reported intentionality for a repetition of the action carried out after suppression instructions had been discontinued... - The mind's self-portraitDaniel M Wegner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1001:212-25. 2003..Evidence from several sources suggests that this self-portrait may often be a humble and misleading caricature of the mind's operation-but one that underlies the feeling of authorship and the acceptance of responsibility for action... - Separating sustained from transient aspects of cognitive control during thought suppressionJason P Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 18:292-7. 2007..These data support proposals regarding the different contributions made by the PFC and ACC to executive control and provide initial neuroimaging support for dual-process models of how individuals regulate their thoughts... - The role of thought suppression in building mental blocksMegan Kozak
Department of Psychology, Roosevelt University, 430 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Conscious Cogn 17:1123-30. 2008..Participants performed most poorly on the items for which they had initially suppressed negative primes... - Timescale bias in the attribution of mindCarey K Morewedge
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:1-11. 2007.... - Psychological effects of thought accelerationEmily Pronin
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Emotion 8:597-612. 2008..This work is inspired by observations of a link between "racing thoughts" and euphoria in cases of clinical mania, and potential implications of that observed link are discussed... - Moral typecasting: divergent perceptions of moral agents and moral patientsKurt Gray
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, MA, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:505-20. 2009..Moral typecasting stems from the dyadic nature of morality and explains curious effects such as people's willingness to inflict greater pain on those who do good than those who do nothing... - Time warp: authorship shapes the perceived timing of actions and eventsJeffrey P Ebert
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02143, USA
Conscious Cogn 19:481-9. 2010..Taken together, these results suggest that binding and self-reports reveal different aspects of the sense of authorship... - Blaming god for our pain: human suffering and the divine mindKurt Gray
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 14:7-16. 2010..Support for this proposition comes from research on mind perception, morality, and moral typecasting. Interestingly, although people perceive God as the author of salvation, suffering seems to evoke even more attributions to the divine... - The gravity of unwanted thoughts: Asymmetric priming effects in thought suppressionSadia Najmi
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, WJH 1244, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Conscious Cogn 17:114-24. 2008.... - Dimensions of mind perceptionHeather M Gray
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 315:619. 2007..The dimensions predicted different moral judgments but were both related to valuing of mind... - What do I think you're doing? Action identification and mind attributionMegan N Kozak
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:543-55. 2006..In Study 5, the authors found that instructing participants to adopt the target's perspective did not affect mind attribution but did lead to higher level identifications of the target's actions... - Causes and consequences of mind perceptionAdam Waytz
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Northwest Science Building Ste 290, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 14:383-8. 2010..Ascribing mind confers an entity moral rights and also makes its actions meaningful. Understanding the causes and consequences of mind perception can explain when this most social of cognitive skills will be used, and why it matters... - Unpriming: the deactivation of thoughts through expressionBetsy Sparrow
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:1009-19. 2006..Experiment 5 found that each item of activated knowledge needs to be unprimed specifically, in that correctly answering 1 question does not reduce the knowledge bias in randomly answering another... - Wandering minds: the default network and stimulus-independent thoughtMalia F Mason
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Science 315:393-5. 2007..quot; In addition, individuals' reports of the tendency of their minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network... - Thought suppression and self-injurious thoughts and behaviorsSadia Najmi
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Behav Res Ther 45:1957-65. 2007..Results are discussed within the framework of the negative reinforcement function of SITB... - Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influenceEmily Pronin
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:218-31. 2006.... - Manic thinking: independent effects of thought speed and thought content on moodEmily Pronin
Princeton University, NJ 08544 1010, USA
Psychol Sci 17:807-13. 2006..This effect of thought speed extended beyond mood to other experiences often associated with mania (i.e., feelings of power, feelings of creativity, a heightened sense of energy, and inflated self-esteem or grandiosity)... - On the feeling of doing: dysphoria and the implicit modulation of authorship ascriptionHenk Aarts
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80140, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Behav Res Ther 44:1621-7. 2006.... - On the inference of personal authorship: enhancing experienced agency by priming effect informationHenk Aarts
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, P O Box 80140, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Conscious Cogn 14:439-58. 2005..Additional experimentation demonstrated that this priming of agency was not mediated by the goal or intention to produce the effect...
Research Grants
- AUTOMATION OF MENTAL CONTROLDaniel Wegner; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- Experience of Mental ControlDaniel Wegner; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..