Regret is a common emotion that has important links with decision-making in adults. Recent
research suggests that the ability to experience regret emerges relatively late in …

In line with the claim that regret plays a role in decision making, O'Connor, McCormack, and
Feeney (Child Development, 85 (2014) 1995–2010) found that children who reported …

Although regret is assumed to facilitate good decision making, there is little research directly
addressing this assumption. Four experiments (N= 326) examined the relation between …

Although recent studies have established that children experience regret from around 6
years, we do not yet know when the ability to anticipate this emotion emerges, despite the …

Regret over missed opportunities leads adults to take more risks. Given recent evidence that
the ability to experience regret impacts decisions made by 6-year-olds, and pronounced …

Previous research found that children first experience regret at 5 years and relief at 7. In two
experiments, we explored three possibilities for this lag:(1) relief genuinely develops later …

Regret and relief are related to counterfactual thinking and rely on comparison processes
between what has been and what might have been. In this article, we study the development …

In two experiments using a decision-making game, we investigated children's thinking about
regret and relief. In Experiment 1 (N= 43, 31 children [5years 4months to 8years 2months of …

Counterfactual emotions, such as regret and relief, are considered important in daily-life
choice behaviour, learning and emotion regulation. A prominent question is from which age …

The anticipation of regret and disappointment plays an important role in decision making by
adults. The anticipation of regret may also lead to a desire to avoid feedback about likely …