Regret and Other Emotions Related to Decision-Making: Antecedents, Appraisals, and Phenomenological Aspects.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: The mainstream position on regret in psychological literature is that its necessary conditions are agency and responsibility, that is, to choose freely but badly. Without free choice, other emotions, such as disappointment, are deemed to be elicited when the outcome is worse than expected. In two experiments, we tested the opposite hypothesis that being forced by external circumstances to choose an option inconsistent with one's own intentions is an important source of regret and a core component of its phenomenology, regardless of the positivity/negativity of the post-decision outcome. Along with regret, four post-decision emotions - anger toward oneself, disappointment, anger toward circumstances, and satisfaction - were investigated to examine their analogies and diff

SUBMITTER: Matarazzo O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8718115 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature