Counterfactuals are thoughts about alternatives to past events, that is, thoughts of what
might have been. This article provides an updated account of the functional theory of …

Although people have been shown to rely on feelings to make judgments, the conditions that
moderate this reliance have not been systematically reviewed and conceptually integrated …

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Some behavioral researchers occasionally wish to conduct a median split on a continuous
variable and use the result in subsequent modeling to facilitate analytic ease and …

In this rebuttal, we discuss the comments of Rucker, McShane, and Preacher (2015) and
McClelland, Lynch, Irwin, Spiller, and Fitzsimons (2015). Both commentaries raise …

Abstract Thinking about what might have been—counterfactual thinking—is a common
feature of the mental landscape. Key questions about counterfactual thinking center on why …

Hindsight bias occurs when people feel that they “knew it all along,” that is, when they
believe that an event is more predictable after it becomes known than it was before it …

In Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron, Professors Sunstein and Thaler set out to
show that state control over the structure of choice options can improve the welfare of …

The capacity for complex thought is one of the traits that distinguish us as humans. Although
social psychologists have been concerned with thinking and thought processes from our …

The validity of the Need for Closure Scale (NFCS) has recently been debated in the
research literature. In the present study, it is argued that the traditional Decisiveness scale …