We may not have control over what we will, but we are free to act or not to act upon it. So perhaps it is okay if free will ...

And this would mean that what we think of as free will is, in a sense, an illusion. But I think part of the challenge there is coming to terms of what free will means. I think in reality from a ...

The illusion of control was first described by psychologist Ellen Langer in 1975. Originally, it was thought that the illusion of control is a mechanism for preserving or enhancing self-esteem ...