Coping with disappointing outcomes: Retroactive pessimism and motivated inhibition of counterfactuals

By O. Tykocinski, Noa Steinberg. 2005

46 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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In Applied Psychology

1. K. Epstude
2. N. Roese
3. C. Wrosch
4. Richard Schulz
5. J. Heckhausen
6. Ruth M. J. Byrne
7. D. Oyserman

In General Decision Sciences

1. N. Roese
2. K. Epstude
3. Ruth M. J. Byrne

Citations in the corpus

• A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development (2010, background): “…(2003) 58 to 81 years: With low controllability of impairment lowering of comparison standard and downgrading of importance of impaired function Tykocinski and Steinberg (2005) After uncontrollable but not after controllable outcomes adults show retrospective pessimism Wrosch, Bauer, et al.…”
• The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking (2008, background): “Tykocinski and Steinberg (2005) found that participants suppressed counterfactuals about how a better outcome might have been achieved when the situation was uncontrollable rather than controllable.”