Mental Control Laboratory

white bear


How do you
stop thinking of a white bear?


Department of Psychology
William James Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Director: Daniel M. Wegner

Graduate Researchers:

Kurt Gray
Anna Jenkins
Joe Paxton
Adrian Ward

Postdoctoral Researchers:

Jeff Ebert
Andrea Heberlein

Alumni

Lab phone: 617-496-2595

 


To learn how people control their minds, our research explores:

Mind Perception--how people perceive minds, both their own and those of others

Mental Control--the strategies people use to influence their own thoughts, emotions, and actions

Apparent Mental Causation--the experience of consciously willing actions, thoughts, and events


Would you like to participate in mental control studies? Try the surveys below, or contact the Psychology Study Pool to participate at the lab in William James Hall.

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