Avoiding Future Regret in Purchase-Timing Decisions

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Regret in Repeat Purchase versus Switching Decisions: The Attenuating Role of Decision Justifiability (2002, unknown): “Furthermore, in our studies we did not consider that consumers might delay their decision to cope with regret (Cooke, Meyvis, and Schwartz 2001).”
Applying regret theory to investment choices: Currency hedging decisions (2008, unknown): “As this last reference shows, regret is an important emotion when analyzing real life decision-making in the fields of medicine (see also Smith, 1996), and it has also been studied in the context of consumer choices (e.g. Simonson, 1992; Cooke et al., 2001).”
The psychology of doing nothing: forms of decision avoidance result from reason and emotion. (2003, background): “There is evidence to suggest that regret judgments made in time-sensitive decisions are more influenced by future opportunities that will be foregone by accepting a current offer than by opportunities that have already been foregone (Cooke et al., 2001).”
‘Should I Buy, Hoard, or Hide?’- Consumers’ responses to perceived scarcity (2019, background): “Studies suggest that these emotional consequences of decisions are anticipated and taken into account, especially when making decisions in uncertain situations (Bechwati and Qualls 2001; Cooke, Meyvis, and Schwartz 2001).”