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Daniel Wegner

Psychology

#117

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#205

Historical Rank

#84

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Social Psychology

#51

World Rank

#60

Historical Rank

#38

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According to Wikipedia, Daniel Merton Wegner was an American social psychologist. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was known for applying experimental psychology to the topics of mental control and conscious will, and for originating the study of transactive memory and action identification. In The Illusion of Conscious Will and other works, he argued that the human sense of free will is an illusion.

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Transactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind (1987) (2646)
Ironic processes of mental control. (1994) (2370)
Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought (2007) (2364)
What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior. (1987) (1769)
Paradoxical effects of thought suppression. (1987) (1530)
Chronic thought suppression. (1994) (1338)
Dimensions of Mind Perception (2007) (1209)
Levels of personal agency: Individual variation in action identification. (1989) (1040)
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips (2011) (969)
Thought suppression. (2000) (893)
Apparent mental causation. Sources of the experience of will. (1999) (864)
Transactive memory in close relationships. (1991) (839)
A Computer Network Model of Human Transactive Memory (1995) (686)
Cognitive interdependence in close relationships (1985) (619)
Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression (1987) (556)
The hyperaccessibility of suppressed thoughts. (1992) (552)
The Handbook of Mental Control (1992) (541)
The Illusion of Conscious Will (2018) (513)
Control and automaticity in social life. (1998) (511)
Causes and consequences of mind perception (2010) (471)
Ironic processes in the mental control of mood and mood-related thought. (1993) (454)
The mind's best trick: how we experience conscious will (2003) (452)
Feeling robots and human zombies: Mind perception and the uncanny valley (2012) (440)
Depression and mental control: the resurgence of unwanted negative thoughts. (1988) (426)
White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control (1989) (413)
A Theory Of Action Identification (1985) (404)
Moral typecasting: divergent perceptions of moral agents and moral patients. (2009) (370)
The self in social psychology (1980) (350)
Covering up what can't be seen: concealable stigma and mental control. (1999) (349)
The cognitive consequences of secrecy. (1995) (343)
Vicarious agency: experiencing control over the movements of others. (2004) (322)
Modulating the sense of agency with external cues (2009) (314)
Response to Comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought" (2007) (307)
The suppression of exciting thoughts. (1990) (271)
On being cool and collected: mood regulation in anticipation of social interaction. (1996) (266)
Arousal-induced attention to self (1980) (258)
On the inference of personal authorship: Enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information (2005) (238)
Blaming God for Our Pain: Human Suffering and the Divine Mind (2010) (236)
What do I think you're doing? Action identification and mind attribution. (2006) (218)
You can't always think what you want: Problems in the suppression of unwanted thoughts (1992) (208)
The hidden costs of hidden stigma. (2000) (201)
The Putt and the Pendulum: Ironic Effects of the Mental Control of Action (1998) (201)
Précis of The illusion of conscious will (2004) (201)
Thought suppression and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. (2007) (196)
Time warp: Authorship shapes the perceived timing of actions and events (2010) (190)
Fanning old flames: emotional and cognitive effects of suppressing thoughts of a past relationship. (1995) (186)
Origins of Ruminative Thought: Trauma, Incompleteness, Nondisclosure, and Suppression (1995) (185)
The Role of Thought Suppression in the Bonding of Thought and Mood (1991) (179)
Timescale bias in the attribution of mind. (2007) (176)
Incrimination through innuendo: Can media questions become public answers? (1981) (175)
Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence. (2006) (168)
Automatic and controlled empathy (1997) (164)
Robots with Display Screens: A Robot with a More Humanlike Face Display Is Perceived To Have More Mind and a Better Personality (2013) (157)
When the Antidote is the Poison: Ironic Mental Control Processes (1997) (155)
Implicit Psychology: An Introduction to Social Cognition (1977) (151)
Distortions of mind perception in psychopathology (2010) (148)
Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events (2008) (145)
Does the Robot Have a Mind? Mind Perception and Attitudes Towards Robots Predict Use of an Eldercare Robot (2014) (143)
Apparent mental causation (1999) (138)
How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion (2009) (138)
Psychology (2nd ed.) (2011) (137)
Separating Sustained From Transient Aspects of Cognitive Control During Thought Suppression (2007) (132)
The emergence of action (1984) (130)
Deep cognitive activation: a new approach to the unconscious. (1997) (129)
The Sting of Intentional Pain (2008) (125)
Ironic effects of trying to relax under stress. (1997) (119)
Managing unwanted intrusive thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder: relative effectiveness of suppression, focused distraction, and acceptance. (2009) (119)
Who is the controller of controlled processes (2005) (112)
Polluting the stream of consciousness: The effect of thought suppression on the mind's environment (1991) (100)
The transparency of denial: Briefing in the debriefing paradigm. (1985) (97)
Ironic effects of sleep urgency. (1996) (95)
Clever hands: uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication. (2003) (93)
When moving without volition: Implied self-causation enhances binding strength between involuntary actions and effects (2012) (91)
Action identification in the emergence of social behavior. (1986) (89)
Dimensions of Moral Emotions (2011) (86)
That's easy for you to say: action identification and speech fluency. (1989) (84)
Action identification theory. (2012) (82)
Mind-blanking: when the mind goes away (2013) (80)
Memories out of order: thought suppression and the disturbance of sequence memory. (1996) (77)
More dead than dead: Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state (2011) (77)
Fanning old flames: emotional and cognitive effects of suppressing thoughts of a past relationship (1995) (74)
Why the mind wanders (1997) (72)
Dream Rebound (2004) (69)
From secrecy to psychopathology. (1995) (68)
Where Leading Questions Can Lead: The Power of Conjecture in Social Interaction (1982) (66)
Setting free the bears: escape from thought suppression. (2011) (66)
Psychology (2nd Edition) (2011) (66)
To escape blame, don't be a hero—Be a victim (2011) (65)
The allure of secret relationships (1994) (63)
The concentration of responsibility: An objective self awareness analysis of group size effects in helping situations (1978) (60)
How Google is changing your brain. (2013) (55)
Self is magic (2008) (55)
The feeling of doing. (1996) (55)
Morality takes two: Dyadic morality and mind perception. (2012) (53)
Changing our minds: An introduction to mental control. (1993) (53)
Unpriming: the deactivation of thoughts through expression. (2006) (50)
The Presentation of Self Through Action Identification (1987) (50)
The Forms of Social Awareness (1982) (50)
Voluntary involuntariness: Thought suppression and the regulation of the experience of will (2003) (50)
The White Bear Story (2003) (49)
The Transparency of Denial: Briefing in the Debriefing Paradigm (1985) (46)
The neural substrates of action identification. (2010) (45)
Mental control: The war of the ghosts in the machine. (1995) (42)
Manic Thinking (2006) (41)
On sending artifact in search of artifact: reply to Mcdonald, Harris, and Maher. (1983) (38)
The Harm-Made Mind (2013) (38)
Torture and judgments of guilt (2010) (38)
Social foundations of mental control (1993) (37)
The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters (2016) (36)
Do alcoholics know what they're doing? Identifications of the act of drinking (1989) (33)
Stress and mental control. (1988) (32)
Automaticity of Action, Psychology of (2001) (32)
Elbow grease: when action feels like work (2009) (32)
Ruminations on the rebound (1996) (31)
Thought suppression and psychopathology (2008) (31)
Automaticity in action (2001) (31)
Hidden Complications of Thought Suppression (2009) (31)
The gravity of unwanted thoughts: Asymmetric priming effects in thought suppression (2008) (30)
The eureka error: inadvertent plagiarism by misattributions of effort. (2007) (30)
Mistaking randomness for free will (2011) (30)
Psychological effects of thought acceleration. (2008) (30)
Observers' focus of attention in the simulation of self-perception. (1977) (29)
The Premature Demise of the Solo Experiment (1992) (28)
Six Guidelines for Interesting Research (2013) (28)
Social psychology–the science of human experience (2000) (28)
On the feeling of doing: dysphoria and the implicit modulation of authorship ascription. (2006) (28)
Moral Judgment and Distributive Justice. (1977) (26)
On winning friends and influencing people: Action identification and self-presentation success (1992) (25)
The Mind's Self‐Portrait (2003) (25)
The self in prosocial action (1980) (24)
The Return of Suppressed Thoughts in Dreams (2009) (22)
Racial Factors in Helping Behavior : An Unobtrusive Field Experiment (2002) (22)
Social Awareness in Story Comprehension (1983) (21)
Justice and the awareness of social entities (1982) (20)
2 The Puzzle of Coaction (2007) (19)
Elbow grease: The experience of effort in action (2009) (19)
Learning the Futility of the Thought Suppression Enterprise in Normal Experience and in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (2009) (18)
Racial factors in helping behavior: An unobtrusive field experiment (1975) (18)
The trouble with action. (1987) (16)
Common-Sense Psychology (1981) (15)
The role of thought suppression in building mental blocks (2008) (14)
Secret relationships: The back alley to love (1994) (14)
Attribute generality: The development and articulation of attributes in person perception☆ (1977) (13)
Frequently asked questions about conscious will (2004) (13)
The Godfather of soul (2006) (12)
Strength of Will (1996) (10)
The role of mental processes in the failure of inhibition (1998) (10)
Ideal agency: The perception of self as an origin of action (2005) (10)
Ideal agency: On perceiving the self as an origin of action (2005) (10)
Action embellishment: an intention bias in the perception of success. (2011) (9)
Sensation and perception (2016) (8)
Bending time to one's will (2010) (7)
Thought Suppression and Mental Control (2006) (7)
Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control (2010) (7)
Effects of Age of Actor and Observer on the Moral Judgments of Children (1982) (6)
Behavior Identification Form (2011) (4)
Pink elephant tramples white bear: The evasion of suppression (1994) (4)
The unabridged self. (1979) (4)
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Timescale Bias in the Attribution of Mind (2007) (2)
A postscript on application (1980) (2)
White Bear Suppression Inventory (2011) (2)
Does the Robot Have a Mind? Mind Perception and Attitudes Towards Robots Predict Use of an Eldercare Robot (2013) (2)
The United States of Repression (2006) (2)
Science talk: Discovery and debate (2003) (1)
Study guide to accompany Psychology (2008) (1)
Dangers of Brain-o-vision (2007) (1)
Psychology Study Guide (2007) (1)
Neuroscience and behaviour (2016) (1)
Emotion and motivation (2016) (1)
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression (2015) (1)
Dangers of brain-o-vision: Review of S. Pockett, W. P. Banks, & S. Gallagher (Eds.), Does consciousness cause behavior? (2007) (1)
WHETHER THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WHY: UNDERSTANDING ILLUSORY FEELINGS OF CONSCIOUS ACTION (2003) (1)
Supporting Online Material for Dimensions of Mind Perception (2007) (1)
The self option. (2001) (0)
When you put things out of mind, where do they go? (2010) (0)
Wegner (1984) The emergence of action (2002) (0)
Actions in Time (2014) (0)
C. Farrer, N. Franck, J. Paillard, and M. Jeannerod. The role of proprioception in action recognition (2003) (0)
Hidden Brain Damage Scale. (1979) (0)
The methods of psychology (2016) (0)
Corrigendum to “Modulating the sense of agency with external cues” [Consciousness and Cognition 18 (2009) 1056–1064] (2011) (0)
FlashReport Torture and judgments of guilt (2009) (0)
Cognition and action (1987) (0)
Psychology: the evolution of a science (2016) (0)
Harvard Psychology of Procrastination Virtual Reality as Niche for Support Groups 2 Nd Language Acquisition (2007) (0)
White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI) 1994 (2007) (0)
A phenomenal field day. (1980) (0)
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Are dendritic webs the functional architecture of consciousness ? (2007) (0)
Author ' s personal copy Causes and consequences of mind perception (2010) (0)
The Province of Social Cognition. (1982) (0)
The systematic self. (1982) (0)
Agency Inference Task (2018) (0)
DENTI FICATION (2002) (0)
Attribute Generality and the Inference Process in Impression Formation (1976) (0)
Mind-blanking: when the mind goes away The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2013) (0)
Phenomenal and metacognitive. Elbow grease: when action feels like work (2009) (0)
EMPATHIC ACCUUCY (2007) (0)
Moral development and distributive justice (1977) (0)

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