Browsing Department of Psychology by Subject "Counterfactual thinking"

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    • The role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking 

      Maloney, David (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
      The aim of this research was to investigate the role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking. In particular, we examined individual differences in autonomy, action/state orientation and ...

    • What else could have caused it? Counterfactuals, enablers and alternatives 

      Egan, Suzanne M.; Frosch, Caren A.; Hancock, Emily N. (Science Foundation Ireland, 2010)
      The aim of this study was to explore why people focus on enablers rather than causes in their counterfactual thinking (i.e., how people undo the past). We report the results of an experiment that compared causes and enablers ...