# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-wegner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:50:26.437Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-wegner"
name: "Daniel Wegner"
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description: "Daniel Merton Wegner was an American social psychologist. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University, Trinity University, and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was known for applying experimental psychology to the topics of mental control and conscious will, and for originating the study of transactive memory and action identification. In The Illusion of Conscious Will and other works, he argued that the human sense of free will is an illusion."
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birthDate: "1948-06-28"
deathDate: "2013-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump