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Daniel Wegner
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Daniel Merton Wegner(June 28, 1948 – July 5, 2013) was an Americansocial psychologist.
He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He was known for applying e xperimental psychology to the
topics of mental control (for exampleironic process theory) and conscious will,[1][2] and for
originating the study oftransactive memory and action identification. In The Illusion of Conscious
Willand other works, he argued controversially that the human sense offree will is an illusion.
Contents
● 1 Career
● 2 Research
○ 2.1 Ironic process theory
○ 2.2 Free will
○ 2.3 Apparent mental causation
○ 2.4 Transactive memory
● 3 Death
● 4 Books
● 5 Notes and references
● 6 External links
Career
Wegner was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [1] He enrolled in a physics degree at M ichigan
State University but changed to psychology, going on to an M .A. and thena PhD .After gaining
his doctorate in 1974, he spent sixteen years teaching at Trinity University ,becoming a full
Professor in 1985. From 1990 to 2000, he researched and taught at the University of Virginia ,
after which he joined the faculty at Harvard University.[3]
Research
Ironic process theory
Wegner and colleagues performed a series of experiments in which people tried tosuppress
thoughts,for example by attempting not to think of a white bear. That work revealed that