Who should decide how limited healthcare resources are prioritized? Autonomous technology as a compelling alternative to humans.

Who should decide how limited resources are prioritized? We ask this question in a healthcare context where patients must be prioritized according to their need and where advances in autonomous artificial intelligence-based technology offer a compelling alternative to decisions by humans. Qualitative (Study 1a; N = 50) and quantitative (Study 1b; N = 800) analysis identified agency, emotional experience, bias-free, and error-free as four main qualities describing people's perceptions of autonomous computer programs (ACPs) and human staff members (HSMs). Yet, the qualities were not perceived to be possessed equally by HSMs and ACPs.

Perceptual training modifies temporal sensitivity and a sense of agency.

Perceptual training has been argued to be a potential means to modify temporal sensitivity (the ability to detect a time-based discrepancy between two stimuli) with previous studies providing preliminary evidence that perceptual training can lead to increased temporal sensitivity. However, previous studies have not employed a control group and therefore cannot rule out the possibility that the observed effects are due to repeated completion of the task, rather than the training itself. Moreover, despite temporal sensitivity being suggested to be an important aspect of the sense of agency, the effects of perceptual training on the sense of agency have not been explored.

The Association Between Believing in Free Will and Subjective Well-Being Is Confounded by a Sense of Personal Control.

The extent to which an individual believes in free will is associated with a number of positive life outcomes, including their own subjective well-being. However, it is not known whether the belief that one has free will is uniquely associated with subjective well-being over and above potential confounding variables. We examined a sense of personal control as one such confound-specifically, whether the association between free will belief (FWB) and subjective well-being is based, in part, on the degree to which an individual feels a sense of personal control over their life.