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Regret As Adaptive Signal
- Regret is a common, adaptive emotion that signals values and motivates improvement.
- Dan Pink found regret clarifies what people care about and can be functional if treated right.
Regret Needs Mental Time Travel
- Regret requires mental time travel and counterfactual storytelling to imagine alternate pasts.
- This complex cognitive ability lets us overwrite past events and see the present differently.
Bob And David Child Study
- A developmental study used Bob and David to show five-year-olds treat outcomes similarly but seven-year-olds anticipate regret.
- The shift shows counterfactual thinking emerges between ages five and seven.