Which brain mechanisms can we use to consciously suppress behavior? Psychologists in the Netherlands have demonstrated that voluntary action control -- such as braking in time for a traffic light -- ...

Do you inadvertently make decisions because you are hungry or cold? In other words, does the brain's processing of internal bodily signals interfere with your ability to act freely? This line of ...

A voluntary action is a motor act, the occurrence, form and timing of which are generated internally rather than by an immediate external stimulus. Voluntary actions involve a characteristic network ...

This post is in response to Passive Frame Theory: a New Synthesis By Ezequiel Morsella Ph.D. (This posting is an update of four previous postings: Are Animals Conscious, Passive Frame Theory, Lively ...

Engineering students are higher than expected on voluntary action while students of humanities are the most involved in voluntary action. When studying these differences in the 12 selected countries, ...

“Around the turn of the last century, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie paid to build 1,689 libraries across the United States. Many are still in use, celebrated as monumental works of philanthropy.

Few people know about William Beveridge’s third report, Voluntary Action. But for Beveridge private action for public purpose was an essential complement to the welfare state. As both state and market ...