David R. Mandel / Denis J. Hilton / Patrizia Catellani (eds.)

The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

Herausgeber: Mandel, David R.; Catellani, Patrizia; Hilton, Denis J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical overview of significant recent developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights new directions for future research in this area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780415322416
• ISBN-10: 0415322413
• Artikelnr.: 21660990

Autorenporträt

David R. Mandel is a Defence Scientist with the Department of National Defence in Canada. His areas of research expertise include thinking and reasoning, judgment and decision making, and social cognition. Denis J. Hilton is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Toulouse-II. His research interests include social cognition, reasoning, judgment, and experimental economics. Patrizia Catellani is Full Professor of Social Psychology at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Her research is focused on the area of cognitive social psychology, with a particular emphasis on applications to the political and judicial contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Counterfactuals, Causality and Mental Representation.
Counterfactual and Causal Explanation: From Early Theoretical Views to New
Frontiers D.R. Mandel. The Relation between Counterfactual and Causal
Reasoning B.A. Spellman, A.P. Kincannon and S.J. Stose. The Course of
Events: Counterfactuals, Causal Sequences and Explanation D.J. Hilton, J.L.
McClure and B.R. Slugoski. The Mental Representation of What Might Have
Been C.R. Walsh and R.M. J. Bryne Part 2: Functional Bases of
Counterfactual Thinking. Reflective and Evaluative Modes of Mental
Simulation K.D. Markman and M.N. McMullen. Scenario Simulations in
Learning: Forms and Functions at the Individual and Organizational Levels
S. Segura and M.W. Morris. Finding Meaning from Mutability: Making Sense
and Deriving Significance through Counterfactual Thinking. A.D. Galinsky,
K.A. Liljenquist, L.L. Kray and N.J. Roese Part 3: Counterfactual Thinking
and Emotion. When a Small Difference Makes a Big Difference: Counterfactual
Thinking and Luck K.H. Teigen. On the Comparative Nature of Regret. M.
Zeelenberg and E. van Dijk Part 4: Counterfactual Thinking in the Context
of Crime, Justice and Political History. Escape from Reality: Prisoners'
Counterfactual Thinking about Crime, Justice, and Punishment M.K. Dhami,
D.R. Mandel and K.A. Souza. When the Social Context Frames the Case:
Counterfactuals in the Courtroom P. Catellani and P. Milesi. Theory- versus
Imagination-Driven Thinking about Historical Counterfactuals: Are We
Prisoners of Our Preconceptions? P.E. Tetlock and E. Henik.