These questions are based on ones used by Pronin and Kugler (2010), who found that people tend to believe that they have more free will than do other people. In their study, they asked Princeton...

These questions are based on ones used by Pronin and Kugler (2010), who found that people tend to believe that they have more free will than do other people. In their study, they asked Princeton undergraduates to predict what would happen in the year after graduation, either to them or to a friend of their choosing. When the students answered the questions about themselves, they circled “both are possible” 52% of the time, whereas when they answered the questions about a friend, they circled “both are possible” only 36% of the time. In other words, the students seemed to think their friends’ actions were more predetermined than were their own.