"Feeling more regret than I would have imagined": Self-report and behavioral evidence.
People tend to overestimate emotional responses to future events. This study examined whether such affective forecasting errors occur for feelings of regret, as measured by self-report and subsequent decision-making. Some participants played a pricing game and lost by a narrow or wide margin, while...
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2008
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| Summary: | People tend to overestimate emotional responses to future events. This study examined whether such affective forecasting
errors occur for feelings of regret, as measured by self-report and subsequent decision-making. Some participants
played a pricing game and lost by a narrow or wide margin, while others were asked to imagine losing by such margins.
Participants who experienced a narrow loss reported more regret than those who imagined a narrow loss. Furthermore,
those experiencing a narrow loss behaved more cautiously in a subsequent gambling task. Thus, the study provides
self-report and behavioral evidence for a reversal of the affective forecasting phenomenon for feelings of regret.
Keywords: regret, affective forecasting, emotion, future events. |
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