A5065240104- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Queen's University Belfast
2011-2018
University of Warwick
2017
Although regret is assumed to facilitate good decision making, there little research directly addressing this assumption. Four experiments ( N = 326) examined the relation between children's ability experience and quality of their subsequent making. In Experiment 1 adaptive making showed same developmental profile, with both first appearing at about 7 years. Experiments 2a 2b, children aged 6–7 who experienced decided adaptively more often than did not regret, held even when controlling for...
In line with the claim that regret plays a role in decision making, O'Connor, McCormack, and Feeney (Child Development, 85 (2014) 1995-2010) found children who reported feeling sadder on discovering they had made non-optimal choice were more likely to make different next time around. We examined two issues of interpretation regarding this finding: whether emotion measured was indeed it experience emotion, rather than ability anticipate it, affected making. To address first issue, we varied...
Although a number of studies have examined the developmental emergence counterfactual emotions regret and relief, none these has used tasks that resemble those with adolescents adults, which typically involve risky decision making. We development relief in two experiments using task children chose between one gambles varied risk. In trials they always received best prize from gamble but were then shown would obtained better had chosen alternative gamble, whereas other was worse. compared...
Regret over missed opportunities leads adults to take more risks. Given recent evidence that the ability experience regret impacts decisions made by 6-year-olds, and pronounced interest in antecedents risk taking adolescence, we investigated age at which a relationship between risky decision-making emerges, whether changes different points development. Six- 8-year-olds, adolescents completed sequential task on information about was available. Children also designed measure their report when...