Researchers interested in counterfactual thinking have often found that upward counterfactual thoughts lead to increased motivation to improve in the future, although at the cost of increased negative affect. The present studies suggest that because upward counterfactual thoughts indicate reasons for a poor performance, they can also serve as excuses. In this case, upward counterfactual thought...

As nurses around the globe battled COVID, one inconvenient truth became glaring: There were not enough to provide care. And those shortages will only get worse. Now that we have emerged from pandemic, nurse educators become more important than ever. What does future curricula look like? How can technology augment training and staffing? ensure next generation of is dynamic for whatever might com...