Wegner, Daniel

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth date 28 July 1948
3. Death date 05 July 2013
4. Birth place Calgary, Canada
5. Death place Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
6. Gender Name Male
7. Biographical Data

   1. Daniel Wegner was a professor of social psychology at the Harvard University. He was fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was known for applying experimental psychology to the topics of mental control and conscious will. He argued that free will is an illusion and focused on the role of thought in self-control and in social life. He was investigating how people come to experience their actions as consciously willed. He published research on thought suppression (ironic process theory) -- for example, on how people become preoccupied with a white bear when they are merely asked not to think about it -- and on mental control of other kinds as well. He was also known for originating the study of transactive memory (how people in groups and relationships remember) and examined how people identify their actions.

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