title: Moral responsibility and free will: A meta-analysis.
abstract: Fundamental beliefs about free will and moral responsibility are often thought to shape our ability to have healthy relationships with others and ourselves. Emotional reactions have also been shown to have an important and pervasive impact on judgments and behaviors. Recent research suggests that emotional reactions play a prominent role in judgments about free will, influencing judgments about determinism's relation to free will and moral responsibility. However, the extent to which affect influences these judgments is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the impact of affect. Our meta-analysis indicates that beliefs in free will are largely robust to emotional reactions.
authors.affiliation: Michigan Technological University, United States. Electronic address: adfeltz@mtu.edu.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feltz
authors.affiliation: Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cova
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D026684:Personal Autonomy
keywords: Affect; Determinism; Free will; Intuitions; Meta-analysis; Moral responsibility