EUROCORES LogiCCC: collaboration led by Kleiter. Thinking about counterfactual possibilities in middle-childhood
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Psychology
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Beck S
(2013)
Conditional Reasoning and Emotional Experience: A Review of the Development of Counterfactual Thinking
in Studia Logica
Beck, S.R.
(2013)
Oxford Handbook of the Development of the Imagination
Beck, S.R.
(2013)
The developmental psychology of reasoning and decision making
Burns P
(2012)
Executive control and the experience of regret.
in Journal of experimental child psychology
| Description | Our main findings were: 1) That children's experience of regret was related to their attentional switching 2) That we found no relationship with working memory, nor any effect of the number of possibilities involved in the task |
| Exploitation Route | Our research will inform further work on counterfactuals and regret in decision making. |
| Sectors | Education |
| Description | Our results have informed further studies of children's and adults' cognition. In particular they have underpinned an ESRC Transformative Social Sciences grant on cognition in middle age and they have informed work on counterfactual thinking in brain damaged patients. |