Free Will Is Costly: Action Control, Making Choices, Mental Time Travel, and Impression Management Use Precious Volitional Resources

Kathleen D. Vohs

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389760.003.0005

Free Will Is Costly: Action Control, Making Choices, Mental Time Travel, and Impression Management Use Precious Volitional Resources

Kathleen D. Vohs

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Abstract

This chapter conceptualizes free will as executive functioning. Free will is for goaldirected and therefore future-oriented behaviors, which are governed by a limited stock of energy. Planning, decision making, future orientation, and theory of mind behaviors are reviewed.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Free Will and Consciousness
Subtitle of host publication	How Might They Work?
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199863341
ISBN (Print)	019538976X, 9780195389760
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389760.003.0005
State	Published - Jun 10 2010

Keywords

Choice
Free will
Interpersonal behaviors
Mental time travel
Planning
Rationality
Theory of mind

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