On the psychology of ‘if only’: Regret and the comparison between factual and counterfactual outcomes

By Eric van Dijk, M. Zeelenberg. 2005

136 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Applied Psychology

1. Rik Pieters
2. Carlos Flavián
3. Luis Vicente Casaló
4. Daniel Belanche
5. N. Roese
6. Richard P. Bagozzi
7. Jingjing Ma
8. Adam M. Grant

In General Decision Sciences

1. Rik Pieters
2. M. Zeelenberg
3. N. Roese
4. Jingjing Ma
5. Richard P. Bagozzi
6. Daniel Belanche
7. Luis Vicente Casaló
8. Carlos Flavián

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Rik Pieters
2. Richard P. Bagozzi
3. M. Zeelenberg
4. Adam M. Grant
5. Daniel Belanche
6. Luis Vicente Casaló
7. Justin M. Berg
8. Carlos Flavián

Citations in the corpus

• Decision speed and choice regret: When haste feels like waste (2011, unknown): “Single-item measures of regret have commonlybeenused inprior researchon regret and decision making (Arkes, Kung, & Hutzel, 2002; Crawford, McConnell, Lewis, & Sherman, 2002; Kumar, 2004; Ordóňez & Connolly, 2000; Sagi & Friedland, 2007; Van Dijk & Zeelenberg, 2005).”
• The Role of Anticipated Emotions in Purchase Intentions (2016, background): “Anticipated emotions have proved to influence action or inaction in a broad variety of contexts, such as violating automobile driving rules (Parker, West, Stradling, & Manstead, 1995), adopting sexual precautions to protect one from contracting AIDS (Richard, Van der Pligt, & de Vries, 1995), preven”
• A Theory of Regret Regulation 1.0 (2007, background): “Put differently, regret is a counterfactual emotion (Kahneman & Miller, 1986; Roese, 1997; Zeelenberg, Van Dijk, Van der Pligt, et al., 1998) that heavily relies on comparison processes (E. Van Dijk & Zeelenberg, 2005; Zeelenberg & Van Dijk, 2005).”
• When Callings Are Calling: Crafting Work and Leisure in Pursuit of Unanswered Occupational Callings (2010, background): “Regret refers to feelings of sorrow and disappointment that are conjured up due to counterfactual thinking, or thoughts about " what could have been " (e.g., Gilovich and Medvec 1995, van Dijk and Zeelenberg 2005).”
• The maximizing mind-set (2014, background): “…unreliable smartphone reception) and a superior (i.e., upward) counterfactual alternative (e.g., reliable smartphone reception; Taylor 1997; van Dijk and Zeelenberg 2005; Zeelenberg and van Dijk 2005) and has been shown to be perhaps the most important emotion to be uniquely related to…”