THE TEMPORAL PATTERN TO THE EXPERIENCE OF REGRET
THE TEMPORAL PATTERN TO THE EXPERIENCE OF REGRET
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.67.3.357
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发表时间：
1994-09-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
MEDVEC, VH
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作者：
GILOVICH, T;MEDVEC, VH
通过电话调查、书面问卷、面对面访谈等方式发现，人们最大的遗憾往往是一生中没能做到的事情。 这与反事实思维的研究相冲突，反事实思维表明，人们对因采取的行动而产生的不幸结果感到遗憾，而不是因放弃的行动而产生相同的结果。 这些不同的发现得到了调和，证明人们的后悔遵循一个系统的时间过程：行动在短期内会造成更多痛苦，但从长远来看，不行动会更令人后悔。 对这一论点的支持是在两个情景实验中获得的，该实验评估了人们对其他人的短期和长期遗憾的信念，并在一项实验中询问了 Ss 对自己在两个时间段内作为和不作为的遗憾。 讨论了可以解释这种时间模式的几种机制。
Through telephone surveys, written questionnaires, and face-to-face interviews, it was found that people's biggest regrets tend to involve things they have failed to do in their lives. This conflicts with research on counterfactual thinking that indicates that people regret unfortunate outcomes that stem from actions taken more than identical outcomes that result from actions foregone. These divergent findings were reconciled by demonstrating that people's regrets follow a systematic time course: Actions cause more pain in the short-term, but inactions are regretted more in the long run. Support for this contention was obtained in 2 scenario experiments that assessed people's beliefs about the short- and long-term regrets of others and in an experiment that asked Ss about their own regrets of action and inaction from 2 time periods. Several mechanisms that can account for this temporal pattern are discussed.