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In his new book, The Science of Free Will , Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at The University of Queensland, discusses three studies that asked college students and adults what they think it means to have free will . The themes that emerged were essentially, “making a choice and not being constrained or coerced,” and surprising to me, “thinking about the future, as in planning.” That is, “pondering future events rele...