Waves of regret: A meg study of emotion and decision-making

Giorgetta, Cinzia; Grecucci, Alessandro; Bonini, Nicolao; Coricelli, Giorgio; Demarchi, Gianpaolo; Braun, Christoph; Sanfey, Alan G.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.015

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“…In turn, ratings and rating times for the negative emotions were independent of the attribution status of the outcome. As expected, regret and disappointment showed no difference in emotion ratings and rating times (Giorgetta et al, 2013), indicating that the negative outcomes had equivalent emotional impact, regardless of their locus of attribution. The high rating given in disappointment conditions could be partially due to the surprise provoked by the presence of unexpected negative events (Zeelenberg & Pieters, 2007).…”

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confidence: 71%

Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults

López

Padrón

Vega

et al. 2018

J of Research on Adolesc

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Adolescents' neural substrates of emotional reactions to the consequences of risky decisions are poorly understood. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, 30 late adolescents and 30 young adults made risky and neutral decisions in social scenarios and received valenced outcomes. Negative outcomes in risky decisions eliciting regret, as compared with negative outcomes in neutral decisions eliciting disappointment, activated executive control (orbitofrontal cortex) and self-relevance regions (middle temporal gyrus [MTG], posterior cingulate cortex, and precuneus) for both age groups. Young adults showed more activation than adolescents in regret and disappointment as compared with relief and elation conditions in the avoidance (insula), action monitoring (inferior frontal gyrus, pre-SMA, and caudate), and social-cognition regions (superior temporal sulcus and MTG). These late socio-emotional developments may pave the way for more adaptive decision-making behavior in social contexts.

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confidence: 71%

Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults

López

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Vega

et al. 2018

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…Camille et al (2004) find that the orbitofrontal cortex has a fundamental role in mediating regret and that people with lesions in the orbitofrontal cortex 7 who do not experience regret make worse decisions than normal subjects who do anticipate regret. Giorgetta et al (2013) found different neural localisations for regret and disappointment. Bleichrodt et al (2010) developed methods to obtain precise quantitative measurements of the parameters of regret theory.…”

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Regret Theory: A Bold Alternative to the Alternatives

Bleichrodt

Wakker

2015

The Economic Journal

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“…immediate emotions or the feelings that people experience during the decision-making process, following the distinction proposed by [1]. Monitoring children's ratings of emotions at various points of the decisional process has offered a relevant result, which can be explained by referring to the function of agency, analogous to what happens in adults [6]. Notably, the difference in the ratings of the emotions before and after knowing the outcome is higher in the choice condition than in the no choice condition, and this can be likely explained by referring to the antecedent condition of the decision itself.…”

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“…What makes the distinction between the two emotions possible is the differential agency attribution, i.e. personal agency for regret and external agency for disappointment [6].…”

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The More I Can Choose, The More I Am Disappointed: The “Illusion of Control” in Children’s Decision-Making

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Massaro²,

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Background:Decision making is a complex psychological process driven by emotions. Among the most unpleasant ones are the situations when the obtained outcome is not the one expected. This emotional experience is influenced by sense of agency, i.e. the feeling that we voluntarily control our actions and, through them, events in the world. Negative counterfactual emotions as disappointment have been marginally analyzed in children's decision-making, and the study of children's sense of agency could help to understand them. Objective:To evaluate during childhood the valence of disappointment in decision making in relation to the possibility of choosing or not. Method:107 children (age range 7-10 years) rated their emotions before and after discovering the outcome, in two experimental conditions: choice condition, where the child could decide which of the two remaining tickets to choose in order to win some candies, and no choice condition, where the child could not decide as only one ticket was left. Results:The self-attribution of a positive emotional state was significantly higher in the choice condition than in the no choice condition, so the possibility to pick up the ticket made children happier in general, by promoting an "illusion of control", which is absent in the no choice condition. Then, after discovering the bad outcome, the emotions collapse, settling at substantially similar values. Conclusion:Children have experienced a sense of agency for their choice, thus leading to an illusion of control for the decision process and to the so-called "wishful thinking".

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Waves of regret: A meg study of emotion and decision-making

Cited by 31 publications

References 85 publications

Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults

Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults

Regret Theory: A Bold Alternative to the Alternatives

The More I Can Choose, The More I Am Disappointed: The “Illusion of Control” in Children’s Decision-Making

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