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Article: Regret-action effect: Action-inaction asymmetries in inferences drawn from perceived regret
Title | Regret-action effect: Action-inaction asymmetries in inferences drawn from perceived regret |
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Keywords | Action Inaction Regret Norms Action-effect |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Academic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jesp |
Citation | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019, v. 84, article no. 103821 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Extending the literature on cognitive effects of action-inaction asymmetries regarding regret, we hypothesized asymmetries in inferences drawn from regret regarding action and inaction. We conducted four experiments with two undergraduate samples from Hong Kong and two American Amazon Mechanical Turk samples (overall N = 1186). We contrasted situations involving either regret or lack of and examined whether these were perceived to be a result of action or inaction. We found consistent evidence for a “regret-action effect”, that regret was perceived as more likely a result of taking action than of not acting, compared to no-regret. This regret-action effect held for action-inaction inferences drawn from target's regret both before and after the target learned of the outcome of the decision. Regret also affected perceived action-inaction norms, with the no-regret situation construed as having weaker action norms (compared to the regret and control conditions). All materials are available at https://osf.io/du9ws/. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282208 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.841 |
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dc.contributor.author | Feldman, G | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-05T14:32:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-05T14:32:12Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019, v. 84, article no. 103821 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-1031 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282208 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Extending the literature on cognitive effects of action-inaction asymmetries regarding regret, we hypothesized asymmetries in inferences drawn from regret regarding action and inaction. We conducted four experiments with two undergraduate samples from Hong Kong and two American Amazon Mechanical Turk samples (overall N = 1186). We contrasted situations involving either regret or lack of and examined whether these were perceived to be a result of action or inaction. We found consistent evidence for a “regret-action effect”, that regret was perceived as more likely a result of taking action than of not acting, compared to no-regret. This regret-action effect held for action-inaction inferences drawn from target's regret both before and after the target learned of the outcome of the decision. Regret also affected perceived action-inaction norms, with the no-regret situation construed as having weaker action norms (compared to the regret and control conditions). All materials are available at https://osf.io/du9ws/. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Academic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jesp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Action | - |
dc.subject | Inaction | - |
dc.subject | Regret | - |
dc.subject | Norms | - |
dc.subject | Action-effect | - |
dc.title | Regret-action effect: Action-inaction asymmetries in inferences drawn from perceived regret | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Feldman, G: gfeldman@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Feldman, G=rp02342 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103821 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85069582433 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 309853 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 84 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 103821 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 103821 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000486107200019 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0022-1031 | - |