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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"counterfactual thinking"”.
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The role of counterfactual thinking in deceptive communication
… the proposal that there is a close link between counterfactual thinking and lying. Although both require the imagination of alternatives to reality, research has yet to establish a direct link. In the first seven studies the relationship between counterfactuals and lies is directly investigated …
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The role of relevant information in functional counterfactual thinking
Although counterfactual thinking is typically activated by a negative outcome, it can have positive effects by helping to regulate and improve future behavior. Known as the content-specific pathway, these counterfactual ruminations use relevant information (i.e., information that is directly …
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays
This dissertation is the application of counterfactual criticism to Shakespearean tragedy—supposing we are to ask, for example, “what if” Hamlet had done the deed, or, “what if” we could somehow disinherit our knowledge of Lear’s madness before reading King Lear. Such readings, mirroring critical …
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The Detection of Stimulus Bias and the Role of Counterfactual Thinking
… relationships as such. The current study tested counterfactual thinking (i.e., mentally simulating alternatives to reality) as a potential mechanism underlying this deficit in learning by manipulating the participation level of the participants (observation vs. prediction). It is proposed that …
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Counterfactual Thinking: An Underlying Mechanism of Post-Consumption Evaluation and Consumer Satisfaction
… a framework of satisfaction determination where counterfactual thinking plays the central role in satisfaction determination. The framework suggests that consumers make counterfactual comparisons in different directions, depending on the situational salience of various comparison standards and …
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IMPROVING CHRONIC ILLNESS MEDICATION ADHERENCE: A COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING-BASED MODEL OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
… this research tested the effectiveness of counterfactual thinking as a message design strategy aimed at increasing drug adherence among individuals at risk for nonadherence. Findings from experiments 1 and 2 showed no effect of counterfactual thinking on medication adherence. Findings from …
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Reflecting on Performance Feedback: The Effect of Counterfactual Thinking on Subsequent Leader Performance
… examines the role of one form of reflection, counterfactual thinking, for learning after performance discrepancies. I explored boundary conditions that might influence self-focused upward counterfactual thinking—a form of reflection particularly important for learning and performance …
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Examining the Preparatory Function of Counterfactual Thinking: Evidence on Content, Benefits, and Evaluation of Forgone Outcomes
… the prevailing perspective on the function of counterfactual thinking, posits that the primary purpose of this form of mental simulation is to prepare individuals for the future. However, recent findings have presented challenges to this dominant view. The debate on this topic has recently …
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When What You Might Have Purchased Misguides You: Dysfunctional Counterfactual Thinking in Consumer Affect and Cognition
… both conditions in parallel think about better counterfactual alternatives. Regardless of the contrary nature of the two restrictions, participants in both conditions based the purchase quantity decision in large part on CFT, and rationalized the purchase quantity by attributing it to the …
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A Dual-Process Account of Reactions to General and Specific Events: The Roles of Counterfactual Thinking and Pre-Event Expectations
… of reactions to general and specific cases, counterfactual thinking was hypothesized to occur more frequently in response to specific events than to general events. Cognitive reactions to general events were expected to be influenced by pre-event expectations, whereas reactions to specific …
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Upward and onward: direction of counterfactuals, future action, and well-being over time
Functional accounts of counterfactual thinking (Epstude & Roese, 2008) argue that upward counterfactuals make us feel bad in the short-term but maximize outcomes in the long term. The short-term relationship is well-established, but the relationship of counterfactual thinking to behavior, affect …
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Children’s thinking about regret and relief
In six experiments, I investigated children’s thinking about their own and others’ regret and relief. The results were described in relation to the developmental counterfactual thinking literature which offers an account of gradual improvements in order to achieve adult-like counterfactual …
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Reconsidering Counterfactual Potency to Improve Affect: Towards an Intervention
Research suggests that upward counterfactual thinking (i.e., mentally simulating more desirable alternatives to reality) influences the extremity of negative emotions to the extent that people believe in the plausibility, or likelihood, of the mentally simulated alternative antecedents and outcomes …
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The cost of new ideas
… engage in this process. Moreover, theories of counterfactual thinking and comparative evaluation, lead to competing predictions about the downstream consequences of idea generation. Some perspectives would suggest idea generation should lead to an increase in satisfaction with the status quo, …
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MENTAL SIMULATION AND PERCEPTIONS OF PROBABILITY: HOW COUNTERFACTUALLY REFLECTING UPON THE PAST ALTERS PERCEPTIONS OF MEANING
… mental simulation. Research suggests that counterfactual thinking can increase the perceived meaning of an event, but the influence of semifactuals on meaning has not yet been evaluated. This research examines the effect of counterfactual and semifactual simulation on perceptions of …
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Collegiate Student-Athlete's Subjective Well-being Related to Mindset and Grit
… self-regulatory processes (i.e., grit, counterfactual thinking, and mindset) contributing to student-athletes’ levels of subjective well-being within their present environment. The present study explored the relationship between these constructs in Division 1, 2, and 3 student-athletes …
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The Influence of Social Comparisons of Interactional Justice on Emotional Labor: An Extension of Fairness, Affective Events, and Emotional Regulation Theories
… with unfair customers experienced negative counterfactual thinking, anger, and subsequently engaged in higher emotional labor compared with participants who were treated fairly. Additionally, participants who had witnessed unfair treatment extended to their coworkers by the customers also …
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Counterfactual, prevention and causal thinking about workplace slip and trip accidents : a study of safety professionals, managers and accident subjects
Counterfactual thinking typically follows an unexpected event and involves the mental simulation of an alternative outcome which can be either better or worse than the original one. In general, exceptional and controllable events are selected for change over those that are routine and …
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The effect of religious priming on recalled regrets
Recent research has demonstrated the effects of religious priming on cognition and behavior in the present. For example, priming participants with religious concepts promotes cooperation in economic games (Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007) and increases public self-awareness (Gervais & Norenzayan, 2012). …
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Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children
Counterfactual thought describes the process of thinking about alternatives to reality. Counterfactual thought can result in various counterfactual emotions, one of which - regret- has received particular research attention. Regret is the emotion we feel when things would have turned out better …