The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions DOI Creative Commons
Alicia K. Jones, Shalini Gautam, Jonathan Redshaw

et al.

Child Development, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 14, 2025

Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin preferentially Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected during 2021-2022) completed tasks that led positive or negative outcomes, and then reported their toward different aspects these tasks. In both younger unexpectedly stronger sadness uncontrollable unforeseeable events, only 8-9 years did many report foreseeable aspects. The tendency more functional counterfactuals therefore emerge relatively late in development.

Language: Английский

The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions DOI Creative Commons
Alicia K. Jones, Shalini Gautam, Jonathan Redshaw

et al.

Child Development, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 14, 2025

Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin preferentially Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected during 2021-2022) completed tasks that led positive or negative outcomes, and then reported their toward different aspects these tasks. In both younger unexpectedly stronger sadness uncontrollable unforeseeable events, only 8-9 years did many report foreseeable aspects. The tendency more functional counterfactuals therefore emerge relatively late in development.

Language: Английский

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