Blar i forfatter Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet "Terum, Jens Andreas"
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Learning from what might have been – judgments and evaluations of counterfactual outcomes
Terum, Jens Andreas (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2018-03-23)The aim of the present thesis is to contribute to the understanding of how people construct hypothetical alternatives to past events, and further explore the role of such counterfactual thinking in learning from accidents and near-accidents. In Paper 1 we introduced the notion that counterfactual thinking is a form of mental simulation that relies on abstract, gist based representations of the ...