“I am regretful but I would not change my decision”: the dissociation between emotional regret and behavioural regret in children

Z Liu, Y Hong, Y Su - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Regret is a negative emotion that individuals experience when they perceive the actual
outcome of a given situation to be less desirable than the counterfactual outcome …

Regret and decision-making: A developmental perspective

T McCormack, A Feeney… - Current Directions in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Do children who experience regret make better decisions? A developmental study of the behavioral consequences of regret

E O'Connor, T McCormack, A Feeney - Child development, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Regret and adaptive decision making in young children

E O'connor, T McCormack, SR Beck… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Knowing when to hold 'em: regret and the relation between missed opportunities and risk taking in children, adolescents and adults

A Feeney, E Travers, E O'Connor, SR Beck… - Cognition and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The development of the experience and anticipation of regret

T McCormack, A Feeney - Cognition and Emotion, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context

AK Jones, S Gautam, J Redshaw - Cognition and Emotion, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative
counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action …

[HTML][HTML] The development of regret and relief about the outcomes of risky decisions

T McCormack, E O'Connor, S Beck, A Feeney - Journal of experimental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Although a number of studies have examined the developmental emergence of
counterfactual emotions of regret and relief, none of these has used tasks that resemble …

What is and what could have been: Experiencing regret and relief across childhood

ACK Van Duijvenvoorde, HM Huizenga… - Cognition & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Children's understanding of anticipatory regret and disappointment

R Guttentag, J Ferrell - Cognition and Emotion, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
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 …