Counterfactual thinking in everyday life situations: Temporal order effects and social norms
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| contents | Counterfactual thinking in everyday life situations: Temporal order effects and social norms Susana Segura Rachel McCloy Psicología Counterfactual thinking is the comparison of a factual situation to asimulated alternative one. When people think about how things could havebeen different, they tend to mentally undo the last occurrence in anindependent sequence of antecedents to an outcome. We report twoexperiments that examined this phenomenon that has been called thetemporal order effect. The first experiment, with 132 participants, examinedthe effect of varying the number of everyday life events on the temporalorder effect. The results show that, in mundane situations, the effect occursonly when the outcome is preceded by a sufficient number of events. Thesecond experiment, with 177 participants, examined a possible interaction ofthe temporal order effect with a different mutability effect - the tendency tochange controllable events that are exceptional with regards to interpersonalnorms for behaviour. The results show that the mutability of theseexceptional events is influenced by their position in an independenttemporal sequence. We discuss the results in terms of social norms. 2003 artículo científico 0211-2159 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16924101 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=169 Psicológica application/pdf Universitat de València Psicológica (España) Num.1 Vol.24 |
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| spellingShingle | Counterfactual thinking in everyday life situations: Temporal order effects and social norms Susana Segura Psicología Counterfactual thinking in everyday life situations: Temporal order effects and social norms Susana Segura Rachel McCloy Psicología Counterfactual thinking is the comparison of a factual situation to asimulated alternative one. When people think about how things could havebeen different, they tend to mentally undo the last occurrence in anindependent sequence of antecedents to an outcome. We report twoexperiments that examined this phenomenon that has been called thetemporal order effect. The first experiment, with 132 participants, examinedthe effect of varying the number of everyday life events on the temporalorder effect. The results show that, in mundane situations, the effect occursonly when the outcome is preceded by a sufficient number of events. Thesecond experiment, with 177 participants, examined a possible interaction ofthe temporal order effect with a different mutability effect - the tendency tochange controllable events that are exceptional with regards to interpersonalnorms for behaviour. The results show that the mutability of theseexceptional events is influenced by their position in an independenttemporal sequence. We discuss the results in terms of social norms. 2003 artículo científico 0211-2159 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16924101 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=169 Psicológica application/pdf Universitat de València Psicológica (España) Num.1 Vol.24 |
| title | Counterfactual thinking in everyday life situations: Temporal order effects and social norms |
| topic | Psicología |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16924101 |