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 …
In two experiments, 4-to 9-year-olds played a game in which they selected one of two boxes to win a prize. On regret trials the unchosen box contained a better prize than the prize …
Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action …
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 …
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 …
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 …
DP Weisberg, SR Beck - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
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 reasoning about how events could have turned out better is associated with the feeling of regret. However, developmental studies show a discrepancy between the …
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 …