Baumeister's experiments on self-regulation and Bargh's experiments on automatic activation of behavior are fascinating. However, the former make it no more likely that free will exists, and the latter make it no more likely that it does not exist. Both research paradigms fit very well within a common deterministic framework. If pragmatism endorses the belief in free will because it generally increases happiness and kindness to others, realism suggests that this effect deterministically depends on specific conditions. For someone in Sophie's shoes, pragmatism is catastrophic. Empirically working scientists may want to leave pragmatism to laypeople and to those philosophers whose temperament inclines them to it.

Baumeister, R. F. (2008). Free will in scientific psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(1), 14-19.