What Makes You Feel Like Your True Self?

Newswise — Belief in free will helps people be their true selves, according to a study authored by Texas A&M University researchers. In their paper, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, lead author Elizabeth Seto, along with Joshua Hicks, both researchers in Texas A&M’s Department of Psychology, manipulated subjects’ beliefs in free will (the ability to freely choose your own actions) to examine how it would affect their “authenticity,” or sense of self.