Daniel M. Wegner
Social psychologist and professor
Daniel M. Wegner was a social psychologist who used experiments to study mental control and conscious will. His books include The Mind Club.
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American Born 1948 in Calgary, Canada Died 2013
About Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel Merton Wegner (1948 to 2013) was a social psychologist who taught psychology at Harvard University and Trinity University. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He applied experimental psychology to mental control, including ironic process theory, and to conscious will. He also originated the study of transactive memory and action identification. He argued in The Illusion of Conscious Will, among other works, that the feeling of free will is an illusion. The Mind Club is among his books in the BookBits catalog.