Semifactual “even if” thinking
By R. McCloy, Ruth M. J. Byrne. 2002
98 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
- Ruth M. J. Byrne
- Rik Pieters
- Valerie A. Thompson
- Mary Parkinson
- Alice McEleney
- M. Zeelenberg
- Shane Timmons
- M. Wedel
In General Decision Sciences
- Ruth M. J. Byrne
- Rik Pieters
- M. Zeelenberg
- Valerie A. Thompson
- Mary Parkinson
- Alice McEleney
- J. Reb
- N. Roese
In Social Psychology
- Rik Pieters
- M. Zeelenberg
- Ruth M. J. Byrne
- Mary Parkinson
- Valerie A. Thompson
- Seger M. Breugelmans
- Jonathan Evans
- Katja Gelbrich
Citations in the corpus
- A Theory of Regret Regulation 1.0 (2007, background): “They can generate “even if” counterfactuals that focus on worse decision outcomes (even if I had chosen differently, the outcome would have been equally bad; McCloy & Byrne, 2002).”
- Counterfactual Thinking: From Logic to Morality (2017, background): “…excuse or defend past actions (e.g., Markman, Mizoguchi, & McMullen, 2008), in part by identifying causes of outcomes or reasons for actions (e.g., McCloy & Byrne, 2002; Walsh & Byrne, 2007), and they are useful for preparing a blueprint for a plan to prevent bad things from happening again…”
- Spontaneous counterfactual thoughts and causal explanations (2006, background): “Evidence for the link between counterfactual thinking and causal explanation comes from experiments that show that the availability of a counterfactual alternative to an outcome affects people’s causal ratings of the events that preceded the outcome (Roese & Olson, 1996; McCloy & Byrne, 2002).”
- Reasoning counterfactually: making inferences about things that didn't happen. (2002, background): “…is pervasive in everyday life (e.g., Byrne & McEleney, 2000; Kahneman & Tversky, 1982), perhaps because it may be linked with causal thoughts (e.g., McCloy & Byrne, 2000, 2002; Roese & Olson, 1995) and because it has consequences for the experience of a range of emotions, such as regret, and…”
- Counterfactual and semi-factual thoughts in moral judgements about failed attempts to harm (2017, background): “Our contrary proposal is based on the evidence that people’s judgements of a causal link between an action and its outcome are increased when they read a counterfactual (e.g., Branscombe et al., 1996; Gavanski & Wells, 1989; McCloy & Byrne, 2002; Spellman & Mandel, 1999).”