Different Attentional Patterns for Regret and Disappointment: An Eye-tracking Study.

ABSTRACT: The unfavorable comparison between the obtained and expected outcomes of our choices may elicit disappointment. When the comparison is made with the outcome of alternative actions, emotions like regret can serve as a learning signal. Previous work showed that both anticipated disappointment and regret influence decisions. In addition, experienced regret is associated with higher emotional responses than disappointment. Yet it is not clear whether this amplification is due to additive effects of disappointment and regret when the outcomes of alternative actions are available, or whether it reflects the learning feature of regret signals. In this perspective, we used eye-tracking to measure the visual pattern of information acquisition in a probabilistic lottery task. In the partial feedback

SUBMITTER: Bault N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084306 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature