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Counterfactual thinking
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Thinking about the world as it isn’t, but might be or might have been is called “Counterfactual thinking.’ ……
We couldn’t make it through the day without counterfactual thinking. Without the ability to imagine a world that is different from our actual world and then to act to bring it imagined world into being, we never would have survived as a species, much less advanced through the millions of stages of speculation and trial and error that is the history of human progress. But the downside of counterfactual thinking is that it fuels regret, both post-decision regret and anticipated regret.
Psychologist who have studied counterfactual thinking extensively find that most individuals do not often engage in this process spontaneously. We don’t sit around, sitting our morning coffee, and ask ourselves what our lives would have been like if we’d been born in South Africa rather than the U.S., or if the earth’s orbit had been just a few thousand miles closer to the sun. Instead, counterfactual thinking is usually triggered by the occurrence of something unpleasant, something that itself produces a negative emotion. Counterfactual thoughts are generated in response to experiences such as poor exam grades, trouble in romantic relationships, and the illness or death of loved ones. And when the counterfactual thoughts being to occur, they trigger more negative emotions, like regret, which in turn trigger more counterfactual thinking, which in turn triggers more negative emotion. Though most people can manage to suppress their counterfactual thoughts before they spin too far down this vicious spiral, some – specially those who suffer from clinical depression – may not be able to arrest the downward pull. ~ Page 152-153
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