Humans can imagine what happened in the past and what will happen in the future, but also
what did not happen and what might happen. We reflect on envisioned events from …

Recent research has changed how developmental psychologists understand counterfactual
thinking or thoughts of what might have been. Evidence suggests that counterfactual …

We outline a dual systems approach to temporal cognition, which distinguishes between two
cognitive systems for dealing with how things unfold over time–a temporal updating system …

The objective of this study was to describe the developmental progression of counterfactual
reasoning from childhood to adulthood. In contrast to the traditional view, it was recently …

Episodic memory is the capacity to consciously recollect particular events from one's own
past (Hoerl, 2007; Tulving, 1985). Empirical work in psychology suggests that it is a fairly …

When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what
could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual …

Previous studies of children's counterfactual reasoning have focused on scenarios in which
a single causal event yielded an outcome. However, there are also cases in which an …

Although regret is assumed to facilitate good decision making, there is little research directly
addressing this assumption. Four experiments (N= 326) examined the relation between …

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 current study examined 4-to 10-year-olds' and adults'(N= 280) tendency to connect
people's thoughts, emotions, and decisions into valence-matched mental state triads …