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 …
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 …
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 …
Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action …
This study investigated adolescent males' decision-making under risk, and the emotional response to decision outcomes, using a probabilistic gambling task designed to evoke …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …