when people think about what might have been, they construct a mental representation of the actual state of affairs, and they generate an imaginary alternative by carrying out minimal mutations to it. When they think about how an undesiderable outcome might have been avoided, they mutate the events leading to the outcome in regular ways, for example, they undo the more recent event in a series of indipendent events.
The temporality effect in thinking about what might have been
TASSO, Alessandra
1995
Abstract
when people think about what might have been, they construct a mental representation of the actual state of affairs, and they generate an imaginary alternative by carrying out minimal mutations to it. When they think about how an undesiderable outcome might have been avoided, they mutate the events leading to the outcome in regular ways, for example, they undo the more recent event in a series of indipendent events.File in questo prodotto:
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