The Role of Counterfactual Thinking in R
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STEVEN J. SHERMAN; ALLEN R. McCONNELL
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Counterfactual generation is an important part of reasoning. Both the judgment of events and affective reactions to those events depend not only on the events themselves, but on counterfactual alternatives to those events. Counterfactual thinking serves several positive functions. However, there are