The effects of action, normality, and decision carefulness on anticipated regret: Evidence for a broad mediating role of decision justifiability

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1405-1420

  Reb, Jochen ^a   Connolly, Terry ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipated regret; Decision process carefulness; Justifiability; Normality; Regret aversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATED REGRET; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION JUSTIFICATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BELIEF;

EID: 78649696094     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903512168     Document Type: Article

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