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New PDF release: What Might Have Been: The Social Psychology of

By Neal J. Roese,James M. Olson

ISBN-10: 0805816135

ISBN-13: 9780805816136

ISBN-10: 0805816143

ISBN-13: 9780805816143

inside of a couple of brief years, examine on counterfactual pondering has mushroomed, setting up itself as one of many signature domain names inside of social psychology. Counterfactuals are techniques of what could have been, of attainable prior results that may have taken position. Counterfactuals and their implications for perceptions of time and causality have lengthy interested philosophers, yet only in the near past have social psychologists made them the point of interest of empirical inquiry.

Following the ebook of Kahneman and Tversky's seminal 1982 paper, a burgeoning literature has implicated counterfactual pondering in such diversified judgments as causation, blame, prediction, and suspicion; in such emotional stories as remorse, elation, unhappiness and sympathy; and likewise in success, coping, and intergroup bias. yet how do such ideas turn up? What are the mechanisms underlying their operation? How do their outcomes profit, or damage, the person? whilst is their new release spontaneous and while is it strategic? This quantity explores those and different a number of concerns via assembling contributions from the main energetic researchers during this speedily increasing subfield of social psychology. each one bankruptcy offers an in-depth exploration of a selected conceptual aspect of counterfactual pondering, reviewing earlier paintings, describing ongoing, state-of-the-art learn, and supplying novel theoretical research and synthesis. because the first edited quantity to assemble the numerous threads of analysis and idea on counterfactual pondering, this ebook offers to be a resource of perception and proposal for years to come.

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