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Social psychology

the feeling of willing an act arises when a thought comes just before the act, fits it and has no rival cause, whether or not it caused the act.

In social psychology, apparent mental causation refers to the feeling of willing an act arises when a thought comes just before the act, fits it and has no rival cause, whether or not it caused the act. This meaning comes from Wegner (1999) in American Psychologist.[1]

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Wegner, D. M., & Wheatley, T. (1999). Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will. American Psychologist, 54(7), 480-492. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.54.7.480

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