Comparing the functional benefits of counterfactual and prefactual thinking: the content-specific and content-neutral pathways
Abstract
We investigated the preparatory benefits of counterfactual and prefactual thinking towards cognitive task performance. Experiment 1 replicated the robust finding that individuals focus more on mutating internally controllable elements when thinking prefactually about their future task performance than when thinking counterfactually about a past performance. We also replicated the finding that counterfactual thinking was associated with...
Paper Details
Title
Comparing the functional benefits of counterfactual and prefactual thinking: the content-specific and content-neutral pathways
Published Date
Oct 12, 2021
Journal
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
261 - 289
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