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Daniel Wegner

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Daniel Merton Wegner (June 28, 1948 – July 5, 2013) was an American social psychologist. [1]

38 relations: Alberta, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Association for Psychological Science, Benjamin Libet, Calgary, Canada, Collective intelligence, Critical précis, Depression (mood), Doctor of Philosophy, Experimental psychology, Family, Free will, Harvard University, Illusion of control, Information, Information retrieval, Ironic process theory, Knowledge, Master of Arts, Metamemory, Michigan State University, Organization, Social psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Springer Science+Business Media, Stress (biology), Team, Thought suppression, Transactive memory, Trinity University (Texas), United States, University of Virginia, Winchester, Massachusetts.

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with around 117,500 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), and Lou Gehrig's disease, is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles.

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Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare.

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Benjamin Libet

Benjamin Libet (April 12, 1916, Chicago, Illinois – July 23, 2007, Davis, California) was a pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness.

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making.

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Critical précis

A critical précis is an expository style of writing, analogous in structure to an essay but which contains a summary of another piece of text.

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Depression (mood)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Experimental psychology

Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the processes that underlie it.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Free will

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Illusion of control

The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events; for example, it occurs when someone feels a sense of control over outcomes that they demonstrably do not influence.

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Information

Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.

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Information retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources.

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Ironic process theory

Ironic process theory, ironic rebound, or the white bear problem refers to the psychological process whereby deliberate attempts to suppress certain thoughts make them more likely to surface.

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Knowledge

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Metamemory

Metamemory or Socratic awareness, a type of metacognition, is both the introspective knowledge of one’s own memory capabilities (and strategies that can aid memory) and the processes involved in memory self-monitoring.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.

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Organization

An organization or organisation is an entity comprising multiple people, such as an institution or an association, that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) is an academic society for personality and social psychologists focused on promoting scientific research that explores how people think, behave and interact.

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Society of Experimental Social Psychology

The Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) is a scientific organization of social scientists founded in 1965 with the goal of advancing and communicating theories in social psychology.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Stress (biology)

Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.

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Team

A team is a group of individuals working together to achieve a goal.

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Thought suppression

Thought suppression is a type of motivated forgetting when an individual consciously attempts to stop thinking about a particular thought.

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Transactive memory

Transactive memory is a psychological hypothesis first proposed by Daniel Wegner in 1985 as a response to earlier theories of "group mind" such as groupthink.

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Trinity University (Texas)

Trinity University is a private liberal arts college in San Antonio, Texas.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Winchester, Massachusetts

Winchester is a small suburban town located 8.2 miles north of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States in Middlesex County.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wegner

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