A group of researchers in Germany developed a way to use online video games to manipulate study participants’ beliefs in free will in the context of experimental studies by restricting their ability to act in a game. They believe that the new method overcomes the shortcomings of methods for manipulating free will beliefs currently used in social psychology and experimental philosophy. The paper was published in Psychological Research. Philosophers and scientists have been debating for centuries whether humans and possibly other living organisms have free will. Some scientific approaches argue …