Daniel Wegner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Wegner

American psychologist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1948

Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Date of Death: 05-Jul-2013

Profession: psychologist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Daniel Merton Wegner (June 28, 1948 – July 5, 2013) was an American social psychologist.
He was a professor of psychology at Harvard 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 (for example ironic process theory) 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 controversially that the human sense of free will is an illusion.