The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

By David R. Mandel, Denis J. Hilton, P. Catellani. 2005

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Part 1: Counterfactuals, Causality and Mental Representation. Counterfactual and Causal Explanation: From Early Theoretical Views to New Frontiers D.R. Mandel. The Relation between Counterfactual and Causal Reasoning B.A. Spellman, A.P. Kincannon and S.J. Stose. The Course of Events: Counterfactuals, Causal Sequences and Explanation D.J. Hilton, J.L. McClure and B.R. Slugoski. The Mental Representation of What Might Have Been C.R. Walsh and R.M. J. Bryne Part 2: Functional Bases of Counterfactual Thinking. Reflective and Evaluative Modes of Mental Simulation K.D. Markman and M.N. McMullen. Scenario Simulations in Learning: Forms and Functions at the Individual and Organizational Levels S. Segura and M.W. Morris. Finding Meaning from Mutability: Making Sense and Deriving Significance through Counterfactual Thinking. A.D. Galinsky, K.A. Liljenquist, L.L. Kray and N.J. Roese Part 3: Counterfactual Thinking and Emotion. When a Small Difference Makes a Big Difference: Counterfactual Thinking and Luck K.H. Teigen. On the Comparative Nature of Regret. M. Zeelenberg and E. van Dijk Part 4: Counterfactual Thinking in the Context of Crime, Justice and Political History. Escape from Reality: Prisoners' Counterfactual Thinking about Crime, Justice, and Punishment M.K. Dhami, D.R. Mandel and K.A. Souza. When the Social Context Frames the Case: Counterfactuals in the Courtroom P. Catellani and P. Milesi. Theory- versus Imagination-Driven Thinking about Historical Counterfactuals: Are We Prisoners of Our Preconceptions? P.E. Tetlock and E. Henik.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The heuristic-analytic theory of reasoning: Extension and evaluation (2006, background): “The last of these topics has been the focus of much recent research, and we now know a good deal, at least, about the conditions under which people will engage in counterfactual thinking (Byrne, 2005; Mandel et al., 2005).”
Coming to grips with the past: Effect of repeated simulation on the perceived plausibility of episodic counterfactual thoughts (2013, unknown): “Conversely, thinking about how good things could have turned out worse—downward counterfactuals—tends to elicit feelings of relief and satisfaction (Markman et al., 1993; Roese, 1994; Roese & Olson, 1995; Mandel et al., 2005).”
Counterfactual thinking: an fMRI study on changing the past for a better future. (2013, background): “Counterfactual thinking takes place in many social, emotional, and other aspects of our daily lives (e.g. Lebow, 2000; Bunzl, 2004; Roese and Morrison, 2009; Roese et al., 2009; Yoon and Vargas, 2010; Rafetseder et al., 2010).”