The present study investigated developmental trends in the effects of the salience of
counterfactual alternatives on judgments of others' counterfactual‐thinking‐based emotions …

Children's understanding of counterfactual emotions such as regret and relief develops
relatively late compared to their ability to imagine counterfactual worlds. We tested whether …

Three experiments examined the influence of other people's negative emotions on young
children's counterfactual thinking. Experiment 1 (N= 48) explored whether 4-to 6-year-olds …

Counterfactual reasoning about how events could have turned out better is associated with
the feeling of regret. However, developmental studies show a discrepancy between the …

How we feel about an outcome often depends on how close an alternative outcome was to
occurring. In four experiments, we investigated whether predominantly White, middle-class …

This study examines how children integrate information about counterfactual alternatives in
making judgments. Previous research in adults had shown that they make judgments on the …

The essays in this volume attest to the rapid advances achieved in a relatively short period
of time in the psychological study of counterfactual thinking. Some of the advances are …

In the current study, we examined whether two different counterfactual thinking biases (ie,
action bias and temporal order bias) influence children's and adults' judgments of regret and …

Empirical research on counterfactual thinking has found a closeness effect: people report
higher negative affect if an actual outcome is close to a better counterfactual outcome …

The current set of studies examined whether 8-to 11-year-olds generate counterfactuals
spontaneously and whether outcome valence and outcome expectancy affect counterfactual …