{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1983202944","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","title":"On the psychology of \u2018if only\u2019: Regret and the comparison between factual and counterfactual outcomes","display_name":"On the psychology of \u2018if only\u2019: Regret and the comparison between factual and counterfactual outcomes","publication_year":2005,"publication_date":"2005-05-18","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1983202944","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","mag":"1983202944"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S64744539","display_name":"Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes","issn_l":"0749-5978","issn":["0749-5978","1095-9920"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a-star","anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","erih-plus","fnege-1","ft50","jufo-3","ki-jl-1","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320990","host_organization_name":"Elsevier BV","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Elsevier BV"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5028770196","display_name":"Eric van Dijk","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-2452","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-2452","https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6116-0946"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I121797337","display_name":"Leiden University","ror":"https://ror.org/027bh9e22","country_code":"NL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I121797337"]}],"countries":["NL"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Eric van Dijk","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I121797337"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5044696365","display_name":"Marcel Zeelenberg","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7100-4223","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7100-4223"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I193700539","display_name":"Tilburg University","ror":"https://ror.org/04b8v1s79","country_code":"NL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I193700539"]}],"countries":["NL"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Marcel Zeelenberg","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Economic and Social Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Economic and Social Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I193700539"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5028770196"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I121797337"],"apc_list":{"value":3530,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3530},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":3.8636,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":132,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.93328973,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":96,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"97","issue":"2","first_page":"152","last_page":"160"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10315","display_name":"Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics","score":0.9994999766349792,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1800","display_name":"General Decision Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10315","display_name":"Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics","score":0.9994999766349792,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1800","display_name":"General Decision Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10646","display_name":"Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3311","display_name":"Safety Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12313","display_name":"Emotions and Moral Behavior","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3207","display_name":"Social Psychology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/32","display_name":"Psychology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/regret","display_name":"regret","score":0.996999979019165},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/counterfactual-thinking","display_name":"counterfactual reasoning","score":0.8209999799728394},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/outcome-comparison","display_name":"outcome comparison","score":0.5789999961853027},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decision-outcomes","display_name":"decision outcomes","score":0.4000000059604645},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decision-making","display_name":"decision-making","score":0.31200000643730164}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50817715","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79895177","display_name":"Regret","level":2,"score":0.9871494770050049},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108650721","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1783253","display_name":"Counterfactual thinking","level":2,"score":0.977380633354187},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C197947376","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5155608","display_name":"Comparability","level":2,"score":0.8123730421066284},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C148220186","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7111912","display_name":"Outcome (game theory)","level":2,"score":0.6601284742355347},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.6349952220916748},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77805123","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161272","display_name":"Social psychology","level":1,"score":0.5216425061225891},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C19768560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320727","display_name":"Dependency (UML)","level":2,"score":0.44730043411254883},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.23917144536972046},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.20528903603553772},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105795698","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12483","display_name":"Statistics","level":1,"score":0.16619616746902466},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144237770","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q747534","display_name":"Mathematical economics","level":1,"score":0.14723467826843262},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.1292526125907898},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.12595993280410767},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C114614502","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76592","display_name":"Combinatorics","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":4,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.04.001","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S64744539","display_name":"Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes","issn_l":"0749-5978","issn":["0749-5978","1095-9920"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a-star","anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","erih-plus","fnege-1","ft50","jufo-3","ki-jl-1","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320990","host_organization_name":"Elsevier BV","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Elsevier BV"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:tilburguniversity.edu:openaire_cris_publications/c753f387-053f-47a9-9515-5abe57c94ffe","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/c753f387-053f-47a9-9515-5abe57c94ffe","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401490","display_name":"Research portal (Tilburg University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I193700539","host_organization_name":"Tilburg University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I193700539"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"van Dijk, E & Zeelenberg, M 2005, 'On the psychology of 'if only': Regret and the comparison between factual and counterfactual outcomes', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 152-160.","raw_type":"info:eu-repo/semantics/article"},{"id":"pmh:uvt:oai:tilburguniversity.edu:publications/c753f387-053f-47a9-9515-5abe57c94ffe","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/c753f387-053f-47a9-9515-5abe57c94ffe","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401843","display_name":"Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1322597698","host_organization_name":"Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1322597698"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97(2), 152 - 160. Academic Press Inc.","raw_type":"info:eu-repo/semantics/article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:97:y:2005:i:2:p:152-160","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749-5978(05)00054-3","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401271","display_name":"RePEc: Research Papers in Economics","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I77793887","host_organization_name":"Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I77793887"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":53,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W102991960","https://openalex.org/W1525053554","https://openalex.org/W1704505741","https://openalex.org/W1735416883","https://openalex.org/W1972668474","https://openalex.org/W1975335004","https://openalex.org/W1982056023","https://openalex.org/W1984871604","https://openalex.org/W1987018888","https://openalex.org/W1991127273","https://openalex.org/W1991740178","https://openalex.org/W2004610321","https://openalex.org/W2005081946","https://openalex.org/W2006397401","https://openalex.org/W2021983547","https://openalex.org/W2023912152","https://openalex.org/W2029005384","https://openalex.org/W2031845357","https://openalex.org/W2036569728","https://openalex.org/W2040689732","https://openalex.org/W2041032079","https://openalex.org/W2041039815","https://openalex.org/W2048196926","https://openalex.org/W2049732437","https://openalex.org/W2052442906","https://openalex.org/W2057806081","https://openalex.org/W2068613599","https://openalex.org/W2069321493","https://openalex.org/W2071944620","https://openalex.org/W2075038288","https://openalex.org/W2075276466","https://openalex.org/W2097801594","https://openalex.org/W2105776638","https://openalex.org/W2107747520","https://openalex.org/W2111751226","https://openalex.org/W2115909997","https://openalex.org/W2119623892","https://openalex.org/W2139560547","https://openalex.org/W2145964516","https://openalex.org/W2152379372","https://openalex.org/W2170507609","https://openalex.org/W2281498113","https://openalex.org/W2283715843","https://openalex.org/W2541790341","https://openalex.org/W2558792904","https://openalex.org/W2913733476","https://openalex.org/W3123484738","https://openalex.org/W4237704392","https://openalex.org/W4242846573","https://openalex.org/W4245267323","https://openalex.org/W4246855866","https://openalex.org/W4255683652","https://openalex.org/W6637220577"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2303108697","https://openalex.org/W2290863464","https://openalex.org/W6925354964","https://openalex.org/W7160852776","https://openalex.org/W7095886897","https://openalex.org/W2118206667","https://openalex.org/W1967154531","https://openalex.org/W2132624896","https://openalex.org/W7038683665","https://openalex.org/W2286678050"],"abstract_inverted_index":null,"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":11},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":10},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":11},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":9},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-10-30T12:39:25.321706","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}