Free will beliefs predict attitudes toward unethical behavior and criminal punishment

ND Martin, D Rigoni, KD Vohs - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
… item and added confidence to our conclusions that the relationship between free will
beliefs and attitudes toward unethical behavior varies across countries and political contexts. …

Free will and punishment: A mechanistic view of human nature reduces retribution

AF Shariff, JD Greene, JC Karremans… - Psychological …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
attitudes toward criminality. We predicted that reduced belief in free will would predict
showed that diminished beliefs in free will encourage antisocial, immoral behavior, the current …

Free to punish: a motivated account of free will belief.

CJ Clark, JB Luguri, PH Ditto, J Knobe… - Journal of personality …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
… illuminate why immoral behavior motivates free will belief. As … to participants’ desire to punish
immoral actors. Accordingly, … levels of immoral behavior predict greater free will beliefs on …

Worldview implications of believing in free will and/or determinism: Politics, morality, and punitiveness

JM Carey, DL Paulhus - Journal of personality, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… key issues regarding lay beliefs about free will and the … belief factors would predict assignment
of punishment when consequentialist reasons are removed. If free will beliefs are about

The value of believing in free will: Encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating

KD Vohs, JW Schooler - Psychological science, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
… analysis to test our prediction that degree of belief in free will would determine degree of …
essay may have induced passivity generally, rather than immoral behavior specifically. …

Belief in free will: implications for practice and policy

Y Zheng, SMJ Van Osselaer… - Journal of Marketing …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… combined perfect prediction, physical causation, and belief in free will within the risk-factor
paradigm. To attain a clean manipulation of physical causation, unethical consumer behavior (…

Belief in free will affects causal attributions when judging others' behavior

O Genschow, D Rigoni, M Brass - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
… of the belief in free will predicts intolerance for unethical behavior in others as … the belief in
free will predicts levels of prescribed punishment and reward for unethical and ethical behavior

Prosocial benefits of feeling free: Disbelief in free will increases aggression and reduces helpfulness

RF Baumeister, EJ Masicampo… - Personality and social …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
… In Experiment 3, participants induced disbelief in free will … of free will, the current results
suggest that disbelief in free willFree will beliefs predict attitudes toward unethical behavior

Professional judges' disbelief in free will does not decrease punishment

O Genschow, H Hawickhorst, D Rigoni… - Social …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Free will beliefs predict attitudes toward unethical behavior and criminal punishment: A
global analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 7325–7330. …

Belief in free will relates to attributions of intentionality and judgments of responsibility

O Genschow, M Brass - … in experimental philosophy of free will and …, 2022 - torrossa.com
behavior, a straightforward prediction is that higher endorsements in free will beliefs relate to
harsher punishment of criminalFree will beliefs predict attitudes toward unethical behavior