Is the effect of justifications on regret direct or indirect?;L'effet des justifications sur le regret est-il direct ou indirect?

Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-145

  Bonnefon, Jean François ^a   Zhang, Jiehai ^b   Deng, Ciping ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SHANGHAI ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Counterfactual; Justification; Mediation; Mutation; Regret

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149124778     PISSN: 0992986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
2. Bonnefon, J. F., & Villejoubert, G. (2006). Tactful or doubtful ? Expectations of politeness explain the severity bias in the interpretation of probability phrases. Psychological Science, 17, 747-751.
3. Connolly, T., & Reb, J. (2005). Regret in cancer-related decisions. Health Psychology, 24, S29-S34.
4. Connolly, T., & Zeelenberg, M. (2002). Regret in decision making. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 212-216.
5. Crawford, M. T., McConnell, A. R., Lewis, A. C., & Sherman, S. J. (2002). Reactance, compliance, and anticipated regret. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 56-63.
6. Gavansky, I., & Wells, G. L. (1989). Counterfactual processing of normal and exceptional events. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 314-325.
7. Girotto, V., Ferrante, D., Pighin, S., & Gonzalez, M. (sous presse). Post-decisional counterfactuals by actors and readers. Psychological Science.
8. Inman, J. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2002). Repeat versus switch decisions: The attenuation role of decision justifiability. Journal of Consumer Research, 29, 116-128.
9. Kahneman, D., & Miller, D. T. (1986). Norm theory: Comparing reality to its alternatives. Psychological Review, 93, 136-153.
10. Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1982). The simulation heuristic. In D. Kahneman, R Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases (pp. 201-210). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
11. Klauer, K. C., Jacobsen, T., & Migulla, G. (1995). Counterfactual processing: Test of an hierarchical correspondence model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 25, 577-595.
12. N'gbala, A., & Branscombe, N. R. (1997). When does action elicit more regret than inaction and is counterfactual mutation the mediator of this effect? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33, 324-343.
13. Pieters, R., & Zeelenberg, M. (2005). On bad decisions and deciding badly: When intention-behavior inconsistency is regrettable. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97, 18-30.
14. Roese, N. J. (1994). The functional basis of counterfactual thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 805-818.
15. Roese, N. J. (1997). Counterfactual thinking. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 133-148.
16. Seta, J. J., McElroy, T., & Seta, C. E. (2001). To do or not to do: Desirability and consistency mediate judgments of regret. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 861-870.
17. Sevdalis, N., & Kokkinaki, F. (2006). The differential effect of realistic and unrealistic counterfactual thinking on regret. Acta Psychologica, 122, 111-128.
18. Sobel, M. E. (1982). Asymptotic confidence intervals for indirect effects in structural equation models. In S. Leinhart (Ed.), Sociological methodology 1982 (pp. 290-312). San Francisco: Josey-Bass.
19. Zeelenberg, M., van den Bos, K., van Dijk, W. W., & Pieters, R. (2002). The inaction effect in the psychology ofregret. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 314-327.
20. Zhang, J., Walsh, C., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2005). Between-subject or within-subject measures of regret: Dilemma and solution. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 559-566.