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Details for article 6 of 11 found articles
| Title: |
"I couldn't have seen it coming": The impact of negative self-relevant outcomes on retrospections about foreseeability |
| Author: |
Mark, Melvin Boburka, Renee Reiter Eyssell, Kristen Cohen, Laurie Mellor, Steven |
| Appeared in: |
Memory |
| Paging: | Volume 11 (2003) nr. 4-5 pages 443-454 |
| Year: |
2003-07 |
| Contents: |
We examined a phenomenon related to hindsight bias, specifically, retrospective judgements about the foreseeability of an outcome. We predicted that negative, self-relevant outcomes would be judged as less foreseeable by the recipient of the outcome than by others, unlike either positive outcomes or outcomes that are not self-relevant. In the context of a "stock market decision-making game", the hypothetical stock selected by one of two players showed an extreme increase or decrease. As predicted, the player who received an extreme negative outcome reported that this outcome was less foreseeable than did the opponent and an observer, for whom the outcome was less self-relevant. For no other kind of outcome was there a difference between the recipient of an outcome, the opponent, and the observer. The findings have several implications, including the possibility that hindsight bias should be considered as a special case of retrospective foreseeability. |
| Publisher: |
Psychology Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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