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Why Living Without Regret is a Bad Idea

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Power of Regret, How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

The World Regret Survey is one of the largest databases of regrets ever. Unlike other negative emotions, regret requires agency; we can only regret stuff that we caused. We imagine making a different decision than we actually made and then negate that experience. The final cognitive superpower we engage in when feeling regret is called counterfactual thinking.

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