From what might have been to what must have been: Counterfactual thinking creates meaning.
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From what might have been to what must have been: counterfactual thinking creates meaning.
Four experiments explored whether 2 uniquely human characteristics-counterfactual thinking (imagining alternatives to the past) and the fundamental drive to create meaning in life-are causally related. Rather than implying a random quality to life, the authors hypothesized and found that counterfactual thinking heightens the meaningfulness of key life experiences. Reflecting on alternative path...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1939-1315,0022-3514
DOI: 10.1037/a0017905