Counterfactuals, Causal Attributions, and the Hindsight Bias: A Conceptual Integration
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This research was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship awarded to Neal Roese and a research grant awarded to James Olson, both from the Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council of Canada. We thank Dave Hamilton, Dale Miller, Mike Ross, Richard Sorrentino, Yaacov Trope, and two anonymous reviewers for providing valuable comments on various versions of the manuscript.We are also grateful to Eileen da Pena for her assistance in running the first experiment. Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to Neal Roese, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2710. e-mail: roese=nwu.edu. Counterfactual research news is posted at the web site, http://www.psych.nwu. edu/people/roese. 32, 197—227 (1996) . 0010
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