[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 …

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 …

The development of regret

E O'Connor, T McCormack, A Feeney - Journal of experimental child …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Counterfactually mediated emotions: A developmental study of regret and relief in a probabilistic gambling task

M Habib, M Cassotti, G Borst, G Simon, A Pineau… - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

The development of children's regret and relief

DP Weisberg, SR Beck - Cognition & emotion, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

[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 …

Children's thinking about their own and others' regret and relief

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 …

When the alternative would have been better: Counterfactual reasoning and the emergence of regret

E Rafetseder, J Perner - Cognition & emotion, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

“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 …