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Article: What is normal? Dimensions of action-inaction normality and their impact on regret in the action-effect
Title | What is normal? Dimensions of action-inaction normality and their impact on regret in the action-effect |
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Keywords | norm theory action effect normality norms regret |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Psychology Press. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/pcem20 |
Citation | Cognition and Emotion, 2020, v. 34 n. 4, p. 728-742 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The widely-replicated action-effect (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982a) describes a phenomenon in which negative outcomes are associated with higher regret when they are a result of action compared to inaction. The highly influential norm-theory (Kahneman & Miller, 1986) theorized that the effect could be explained using the concept of normality, arguing that inaction is more ‘normal’. I aimed to clarify the concept of normality and examine the impact on regret in the action-effect by contrasting three identified categories: past-behavior normality, expectations normality, and social-norms normality. In three exploratory experiments (N1 = 213, N2 = 300, N3 = 303) and one concluding pre-registered combined experiment (N = 403) I found that the three normality categories had distinct effects with consistent medium to strong impact on the regret action-effect (d = .51 to d =.85) and no interactions. The action-effect was significantly weakened into an inaction-effect in the joint effects of any two types of the three normality categories (d = 1.56 to 1.61) and with all three combined (d = 2.75). In total, I concluded three replications for effects of each of the normality dimensions, overall nine successful replications of previous findings. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279052 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.110 |
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dc.contributor.author | Feldman, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-21T02:18:48Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-21T02:18:48Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cognition and Emotion, 2020, v. 34 n. 4, p. 728-742 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0269-9931 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279052 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The widely-replicated action-effect (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982a) describes a phenomenon in which negative outcomes are associated with higher regret when they are a result of action compared to inaction. The highly influential norm-theory (Kahneman & Miller, 1986) theorized that the effect could be explained using the concept of normality, arguing that inaction is more ‘normal’. I aimed to clarify the concept of normality and examine the impact on regret in the action-effect by contrasting three identified categories: past-behavior normality, expectations normality, and social-norms normality. In three exploratory experiments (N1 = 213, N2 = 300, N3 = 303) and one concluding pre-registered combined experiment (N = 403) I found that the three normality categories had distinct effects with consistent medium to strong impact on the regret action-effect (d = .51 to d =.85) and no interactions. The action-effect was significantly weakened into an inaction-effect in the joint effects of any two types of the three normality categories (d = 1.56 to 1.61) and with all three combined (d = 2.75). In total, I concluded three replications for effects of each of the normality dimensions, overall nine successful replications of previous findings. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Psychology Press. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/pcem20 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cognition and Emotion | - |
dc.rights | Cognition and Emotion. Copyright © Psychology Press. | - |
dc.rights | This is an electronic version of an article published in Cognition and Emotion, 2020, v. 34 n. 4, p. 728-742. Cognition and Emotion is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2019.1675598 | - |
dc.subject | norm theory | - |
dc.subject | action effect | - |
dc.subject | normality | - |
dc.subject | norms | - |
dc.subject | regret | - |
dc.title | What is normal? Dimensions of action-inaction normality and their impact on regret in the action-effect | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Feldman, G: gfeldman@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Feldman, G=rp02342 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02699931.2019.1675598 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85076103423 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 307411 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 34 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 728 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 742 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000500441600001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0269-9931 | - |