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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative
counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action …

The experience of regret rests on a counterfactual analysis of events. Previous research
indicates that regret emerges at around 6years of age, marginally later than the age at which …

Adults often reason about what might have happened had they chosen an alternative course
of action in the past, which can elicit the counterfactual emotion of regret. It is unclear …

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 …

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