magazine issue 10 2009 / Issue 10

The Ghost in the System: Where Free Will Lurks in Human Minds

• written by Jay Michaels & Robin Vallacher
• edited by Hans IJzerman

Gilbert, D. T., Wilson, T. D., Pinel, E. C., Blumberg, S. J., & Wheatley, T. P. (1998). Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 617-638.

Harvey, J. H. (1976). Attribution of freedom. In J. H. Harvey, W. J. Ickes, & R. F. Kidd (Eds.), New directions in attribution research: Vol 1. (pp. 73-96). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Harvey, J. H. & Jellison, J. M. (1974). Determinants of perceived choice, number of options, and perceived time in making a selection. Memory and Cognition, 2, 539-544.

Heider, F. (1944). Social perception and phenomenal causality. Psychological Review, 51, 358-374.

Mandler, G. (1975). Mind and emotion. New York: Wiley.

Nisbett, R. E. & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84, 231-259.

Shoda, Y., LeeTiernan, S., & Mischel, W. (2002). Personality as a dynamical system: Emergenceof stability and distinctiveness from intra- and interpersonal interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 316-325.

Skinner, B. F. (1971). Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf.

Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (2007). Dynamical social psychology: Finding order in the flow of human experience. In A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed., pp. 734-758). New York: Guilford Publications.

Vallacher, R. R. & Wegner, D. M. (1987). What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior.Psychological Review, 94, 3 15.

Wegner, D. M. (2002). The illusion of conscious will. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.