Heuristics and Biases: When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among Olympic Medalists

By V. Medvec, S. Madey, Thomas Gilovich. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Ruth M. J. Byrne
2. Blake E. Ashforth
3. Michael G. Pratt
4. Robert P. Vecchio
5. K. Markman
6. N. Roese
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ruth M. J. Byrne
2. Blake E. Ashforth
3. Kristie M. Rogers
4. Camille Pradies
5. Michael G. Pratt
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Citations in the corpus

• Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning (2019, background): “…looked more unhappy at the moment they realized they had won silver - presumably they could imagine the better outcome of winning gold, compared to bronze medalists when they realized they had won bronze - presumably they could imagine the worse outcome of not winning a medal [Medvec et al., 1995].”
• Ambivalence in Organizations: A Multilevel Approach (2014, background): “For example, Olympic silver medalists were found to be less happy with their achievement than bronze medalists because they “just missed the gold” (Medvec et al. 1995).”
• Extracting meaning from past affective experiences: The importance of peaks, ends, and specific emotions (2000, unknown): “Current mood (Blaney, 1986; Parkinson, Briner, Reynolds, & Totterdell, 1995), affective traits (Barrett, 1997; Rusting, 1998), personel theories (McFarland, Ross, & DeCourville, 1989), and the ease with which counterfactuals come to mind (Kahneman & Miller, 1986; Medvec, Madey, & Gilovich, 1995 ), ”
• How Emotion Shapes Behavior: Feedback, Anticipation, and Reflection, Rather Than Direct Causation (2007, unknown): “For example, there is more regret after just missing a plane or train by a few minutes than after missing it by half an hour or more (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982; Medvec, Madey, & Gilovich, 1995).”
• Reference-Dependent Risk Attitudes (2007, background): “And the many propositions in the paper derive general restrictions that our model implies for observed behavior. see Victoria Husted Medvec, Scott F. Madey, and Thomas Gilovich (1995), Barbara Mellers, Alan Schwartz, and Ilana Ritov (1999), and Hans C. Breiter et al. (2001).”