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How might belief in free will or determinism affect one’s behaviour? -…

- - - - priority
      - consistency
      - exclusivity
    - - arises endogenously
      - no externally imposed restrictions
      - subjects feel they are performing an act on their own initiative
- - - - more likely to cheat on a study- Vohs and schooler 2008
        
        and it was discovered that the original sample used mormons, who may have a disposition to believe texts and believe in a limited form of determinism- gods plan. this might not be generalisable to the rest of the population
        
        also found that participants reading deterministic texts were more likely to overpay themselves.
      - Baumeister et al (2009) found that people induced into a disbelief in free will acted more aggressively than others.
        
        Stillman & Baumeister (2010) found that people induced to disbelieve in free will were less likely to volunteer to recycle, suggesting there may be a number of prosocial acts people will be less likely to participate in with a belief in determinism
        
        Its specific determinism though, because some people can believe in both (daniel dennet and compatibilism)
        
        compatibilist- agents are morally responsible for their actions as long as those actions do not arise from external coercion
        
        Aquest and Baumeister (2010) found that belief in free will reduces conformity
        
        Protzko et al, 2016 found that people were more likely to also act less co-operatively and more selfishly after reading a passage dismissing free will.
      - people believing in free will are more likily to report feelings of gratitude (MacKenzie, Vohn and Baumeister 2014)
  - - - Shariff et al (2014) used the same manipulation as vohs to make people less likely to accept free will, and found that those who had read the passage rejecting free will recommended significantly lighter prison sentences, indicating people with a belief in determinism assign less responsibility to the actions of others, and therefore treat them differently by suggesting lighter punishment