Counterfactual Thinking: The Intersection of Affect and Function

By N. Roese, J. Olson. 1997

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The Role of Anticipated Emotions in the Endowment Effect (2005, background): “As is often indicated in research on norm theory (Kahneman & Miller, 1986), counterfactual thinking (Miller & Taylor, 2002; Roese & Olson, 1995, 1997 ), and the status quo bias (Luce, 1998), actions are more mutable and receive more attention than inactions and therefore are associated with more in”
Effect of Counterfactual and Factual Thinking on Causal Judgments (2003, background): “…is some empirical support for the weaker notion that causal judgments are influenced by the ease with which people can mentally undo focal events in the past and by the content of their counterfactual musings (Branscombe, Owen, Garstka, & Coleman, 1996; Roese & Olson, 1997; Wells & Gavanski, 1989).”
Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion (2001, unknown): “Roese and Olson (1997), following on norm theory (Kahneman & Miller, 1986), demonstrated that counterfactual thinking, a form of concern about and replaying a past outcome, is more likely in the context of negative events and negative emotions.”
Spontaneous counterfactual thoughts and causal explanations (2006, background): “Counterfactual and causal thoughts can even seem indistinguishable (eg, Mandel, 2003 ; Roese, 1997 ).”
Counterfactuals as behavioral primes: Priming the simulation heuristic and consideration of alternatives. (2000, background): “In addition, surprising outcomes (e.g., ones that violate expectancies) and negative events spontaneously activate a simulated search for alternative realities (Roese & Hur, 1997; Roese & Olson, 1997; Sanna & Turley, 1996).”
Consumer Choice between Hedonic and Utilitarian Goods (2000, background): “…(i.e., downward counterfactuals) and suggests that upward counterfactuals are spontaneously generated more frequently than downward counterfactuals (Roese and Olson 1997).2 Recent research has extended these ideas to prefactual thinking, that is, the imagination of alternative possible outcomes…”
Coping with disappointing outcomes: Retroactive pessimism and motivated inhibition of counterfactuals (2005, background): “For example, upward counterfactual thinking is likely to be activated by the experience of negative emotions (Roese & Olson, 1997) and by close proximity to a missed goal (Meyers-Levy & Maheswaran, 1992; Roese & Olson, 1996).”