The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

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ISBN: 9780415322416 | 0415322413
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/22/2005

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well as advanced undergraduates and graduates in psychology--particularly those with an interest in social cognition, social judgment, decision judgment, decision making, thinking and reasoning.

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Introduction

(8)

PART I Counterfactuals, causality, and mental representation

(66)

1 Counterfactual and causal explanation: from early theoretical views to new frontiers

(17)

DAVID R. MANDEL

2 The relation between counterfactual and causal reasoning

(16)

BARBARA A. SPELLMAN, ALEXANDRA P. KINCANNON, AND STEPHEN J. STOSE

3 The course of events: counterfactuals, causal sequences, and explanation

(17)

DENIS J. HILTON, JOHN L. McCLURE, AND BEN R. SLUGOSKI

4 The mental representation of what might have been

(14)

CLARE R. WALSH AND RUTH M.J. BYRNE

PART II Functional bases of counterfactual thinking

(52)

5 Reflective and evaluative modes of mental simulation

(17)

KEITH D. MARKMAN AND MATTHEW N. McMULLEN

6 Scenario simulations in learning: forms and functions at the individual and organizational levels

(16)

SUSANA SEGURA AND MICHAEL W. MORRIS

7 Finding meaning from mutability: making sense and deriving significance through counterfactual thinking

110

(17)

ADAM D. GALINSKY, KATIE A. LILJENQUIST, LAURA J. KRAY, AND NEAL J. ROESE

PART III Counterfactual thinking and emotion

127

(36)

8 When a small difference makes a big difference: counterfactual thinking and luck

129

(18)

KARL HALVOR TEIGEN

9 On the comparative nature of regret

147

(16)

MARCEL ZEELENBERG AND ERIC VAN DIJK

PART IV Counterfactual thinking in the context of crime, justice, and political history

163

(54)

10 Escape from reality: prisoners' counterfactual thinking about crime, justice, and punishment

165

(18)

MANDEEP K. DHAMI, DAVID R. MANDEL, AND KAREN A. SOUZA

11 When the social context frames the case: counterfactuals in the courtroom

183

(16)

PATRIZIA CATELLANI AND PATRIZIA MILESI

12 Theory- versus imagination-driven thinking about historical counterfactuals: are we prisoners of our preconceptions?

199

(18)

PHILIP E. TETLOCK AND ERIKA HENIK

References

217

(28)

Author index

245

(2)

Subject index

247

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The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

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