Woulda, coulda, shoulda: The evaluation and the impact of the alternative outcome

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1354-1360

  Gu, Ruolei ^a,b   Wu, Tingting ^a   Jiang, Yang ^b   Luo, Yue Jia ^a,c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative outcome; Counterfactual thinking; Decision making; Feedback related negativity (FRN); Logic error; Outcome evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052770283     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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