Understanding the Past and Counterfactual Possibilistic Thinking [PDF]
Теоретическая и экспериментальная психологияBackground. The article substantiates that today the research emphasis of many psychologists is shifting from understanding the present to analyzing the psychology of understanding the past and the future.
Viktor V. Znakov
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Counterfactual thinking within the first year after sexual assault: examining associations with posttraumatic stress reactions in the Norwegian TRUST-study [PDF]
European Journal of PsychotraumatologyBackground: Counterfactual thinking (CFT), involves mental simulations of alternative outcomes to past events (e.g. ‘What if … ’ or ‘If only … ’), and is commonly observed after trauma.
Ines Blix +5 more
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Counterfactual thinking and regulatory fit [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2006 According to regulatory fit theory (Higgins, 2000), when people make decisions with strategies that sustain their regulatory focus orientation, they “feel right” about what they are doing, and this “feeling-right” experience then transfers to subsequent ...
Keith D. Markman +3 more
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Time-course evolution of counterfactual thinking after early pregnancy loss [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCounterfactual thinking (CT), the tendency to consider how events might have been different, is a common cognitive process following negative life events.
Aida Mallorquí +9 more
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COVID-19 death toll predictions show that triggering counterfactual thinking deteriorates judgmental performance [PDF]
Communications MedicineBackground Effective communication during a health crisis is critical as it directly influences psychological and behavioral responses that will shape the further progression of the crisis. Past research has suggested that one type of cognitive mechanism
Matthias Seifert, Jeeva Somasundaram
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Counterfactual thinking about controllable events [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2000 When people think about what might have been, they mentally undo controllable rather than uncontrollable events. We report the results of two experiments in which we examined this controllability effect in counterfactual thinking. The experiments show that the mutability of controllable events is influenced by the perceived appropriateness or ...
R, McCloy, R M, Byrne
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Counterfactual Thinking Facilitates Behavioral Intentions. [PDF]
J Exp Soc Psychol, 2009 People often ponder what might have been, and these counterfactual inferences have been linked to behavior regulation. Counterfactuals may enhance performance by either a content-specific pathway (via shift in behavioral intentions) and/or a content-neutral pathway (via mindsets or motivation).
Smallman R, Roese NJ.
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Jurnal Psikologi, 2021 Persistence is a key element contributing to college students’ success in an academic competition. We argue that dispositional optimism, and upward and downward counterfactual thinking have influence in determining individuals’ persistence.
Maria Gracia Amara Pawitra +1 more
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Neural activity associated with self, other, and object-based counterfactual thinking. [PDF]
Neuroimage, 2015 De Brigard F +3 more
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Episodic future thinking and episodic counterfactual thinking: intersections between memory and decisions. [PDF]
Neurobiol Learn Mem, 2015 Schacter DL +3 more
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