"Feeling more regret than I would have imagined": Self-report and behavioral evidence

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 449-456

  Fernandez Duque, Diego ^a   Landers, Jessica ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Emotion; Future events; Regret

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350191670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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