Missed opportunities: Psychological ramifications of counterfactual thought in midlife women

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Towards Causal Representation Learning (2021, positive): “These findings are consistent with work in cognitive psychology [64], arguing that counterfactuals allow to reason about the usefulness of past actions and transfer these insights to corresponding behavioral intentions in future scenarios [203, 199, 145].”
How Emotion Shapes Behavior: Feedback, Anticipation, and Reflection, Rather Than Direct Causation (2007, unknown): “…something bad that has already happened, but counterfactual thinking can enable the person to learn a lesson so as to avoid repeating the misfortune in the future (Landman, Vandewater, Stewart, & Malley, 1995; Markman, Gavanski, Sherman, & McMullen, 1993; Roese, 1994; Taylor & Schneider, 1989).”