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“If only…”: Counterfactual  thinking in bereavement

Death Studies, 2019
When grief over the death of a loved one becomes complicated, protracted and circular, ruminative counterfactual thinking in which the bereaved relentlessly but vainly seeks to somehow reverse the tragedy of the loss often plays a contributory role in sustaining the person's suffering.
Robert A, Neimeyer, Shani, Pitcho-Prelorentzos, Michal, Mahat-Shamir   +2 more
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Counterfactual Thinking and Advertising Responses

Journal of Consumer Research, 2002
This article examines the effects of counterfactual thinking on information processing. We conceptualize counterfactual thinking—a process of mentally undoing the outcome of an event by imagining alternate antecedent states—as a problem-solving process that will increase scrutiny of subsequently encountered information.
Krishnamurthy, Parthasarathy, Sivaraman, Anuradha   +1 more
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Counterfactual future-thinking

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2023
In this article, I follow two urban experts, a Turkish construction site manager and a Kurdish foreman, working in Taksim 360, one of Istanbul’s first state-led urban transformation projects still in construction since 2006. Homing in on the protracted landscape of construction, I am concerned with how urban experts in Taksim 360, who do not entirely ...
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Almost Thinking Counterfactually: Children’s Understanding of Close Counterfactuals

Child Development, 2011
Abstract Saying something “almost happened” indicates that one is considering a close counterfactual world. Previous evidence suggested that children start to consider these close counterfactuals at around 2 years of age (P. L. Harris, 1997), substantially earlier than they pass other tests of counterfactual thinking.
Sarah R, Beck, Carlie, Guthrie
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Postdecisional Counterfactual Thinking by Actors and Readers

Psychological Science, 2007
How do individuals think counterfactually about the outcomes of their decisions? Most previous studies have investigated how readers think about fictional stories, rather than how actors think about events they have actually experienced. We assumed that differences in individuals' roles (actor vs. reader) can make different information available, which
Girotto, Vittorio, Ferrante, Donatella, Pighin, Stefania, Gonzalez, Michel   +3 more
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Counterfactual thinking.

Psychological Bulletin, 1997
Counterfactuals are mental representations of alternatives to the past and produce consequences that are both beneficial and aversive to the individual. These apparently contradictory effects are integrated in a functionalist model of counterfactual thinking.
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Impoverished Counterfactual Thinking is Associated with Schizophrenia

Psychiatry, 2000
Counterfactual thoughts are mental representations of alternatives to past events. Recent research has shown counterfactual thinking to be a pervasive cognitive process in normal populations and has linked it to effective problem-solving and decision-making.
C, Hooker, N J, Roese, S, Park
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Counterfactual Thinking and the First Instinct Fallacy.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005
Most people believe that they should avoid changing their answer when taking multiple-choice tests. Virtually all research on this topic, however, has suggested that this strategy is ill-founded: Most answer changes are from incorrect to correct, and people who change their answers usually improve their test scores.
Justin Kruger, Derrick Wirtz, Dale T. Miller   +2 more
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Game design for promoting counterfactual thinking

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012
We describe the first iteration of an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) designed to lead players into a newly enfranchised relationship with history and engage them in scientific thinking and information literacy practices. We found that the points at which the game's mythology blurred the lines between fact and fiction prompted middle school students to ...
Elizabeth M. Bonsignore, Kari Kraus, Amanda Visconti, Derek L. Hansen, Ann Fraistat, Allison Druin   +5 more
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Counterfactual thinking and stereotypes: The nonconformity effect

European Journal of Social Psychology, 2004
AbstractPast research has shown that counterfactual thinking (‘if only…’) is related to judgements of responsibility for negative events. It has also shown that behaviours deviating from the target's own behavioural standard (intrapersonal norm) are likely to trigger counterfactuals—the so‐called exceptional‐routine effect.
Catellani, Patrizia, Alberici, Augusta Isabella, Milesi, Patrizia   +2 more
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