How do people come to consider a morally unacceptable action, such as “a passenger in an
airplane does not want to sit next to a Muslim passenger and so he tells the stewardess the …

We examined how people think about how things could have turned out differently after they
made a decision to cooperate or not in three social interactions: the Prisoner's dilemma …

Episodic simulation effectively promotes an individual's willingness to help, and temporal
distance can influence an individual's mental representation and reaction. However, the …

This chapter considers the cognitive processes that enable the everyday counterfactual
imagination to have such widespread effects. It relies on the example of the effects of …

Counterfactual reasoning is at the centre of human daily life and plays a key role in shaping
our moral and social judgments. Its effect on moral judgment in adulthood, such as justifying …

According to previous research, a person's tendency to think counterfactually is related to
their levels of life satisfaction and their goal-setting patterns. That research, however, has …