Free Will / Willpower - academic

Reviews:

• Overview by Schooler - What Science Tells Us about Free Will
• Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will (Nature reviews, Haggard, 2008)
• Free will debates: Simple experiments are not so simple (Klemm, Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 2010)
• Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates
• Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past, Seligman etal, 2013 PPS

Empirical articles - the belief in free will:

• How Thoughts Give Rise to Action - Conscious Motor Intention Increases the Excitability of Target-Specific Motor Circuits (PLOSOne, 2014) | Reviewed here
• Predicting free choices for abstract intentions, PNAS 2013
• Vohs, K. D., & Schooler, J. W. (2008). The value of believing in free will: Encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating. Psychological Science, 19, 49-54.
• Whatever Is Willed Will Be A Temporal Asymmetry in Attributions to Will (Helzer & Gilovich, 2012, PSPB)
• Inducing Disbelief in Free Will Alters Brain Correlates of Preconscious Motor Preparation: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not (Rigoni, Kühn, Sartori, and Brass, PsycSci, 2011)
• On the Foundations of Beliefs in Free Will : Intentional Binding and Unconscious Priming in Self-Agency (Aarts and van den Bos, PsycSci, 2011)
• More dead than dead: Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state (Gray, Knickman and Wegner, 2011 ; Cognition).
• It Was Meant to Happen: Explaining Cultural Variations in Fate Attributions (Norenzayan & Lee, 2010, JPSP)
• Predictable or Not? Individuals’ Risk Decisions Do Not Necessarily Predict Their Next Ones (Ellick Wong and Cheung, 2013, PLOSone)
• Loss of Control Increases Belief in Precognition and Belief in Precognition Increases Control (PLOSOne, 2013)
• Unconscious decisions and free will (Alfred Mele, 2013, PhiloPsyc)
• Staying the Course The Option of Doing Nothing and Its Impact on Postchoice Persistence (Pyscsci, 2014)
• Free Will and Punishment : A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution (Shariff et al. 2014, PyscSci)
• Free to punish: A motivated account of free will belief (JPSP, 2014)[Covered on The Surprising Link Between Homicide Rates and…Belief in Free Will (Mother Jones)]

Link to responsibility:

• The Triangle Model of Responsibility (PsycReview, 1994)

Links to performance:

• Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women's Math Performance (Science, 2006)

Fate:

• Do Difficult Decisions Motivate Belief in Fate? A Test in the Context of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election (PsycSci, 2014)

Self control:

• Creeping Moralism There is no one-to-one relationship between self-control and morality.(Psychology Today , 2016) about this paper - Role of self-control failure in immoral and unethical actions (Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015)