ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2009, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2): 334-340.

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Cognitive Mechanism and Neural Substrate of Regret

SUO Tao; FENG Ting-Yong; WANG Hui-Li; LI Hong   

  1. Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education(SWU), School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Received:2008-09-27 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-03-15 Published:2009-03-15
  • Contact: LI Hong

Abstract: Regret is a complex negative social emotion whose generation depends on counterfactual thinking to the better outcomes provided by the alternative choice. It influences decision-making, and has important impacts on people’s physical and mental health in everyday life. Compared with disappointment, regret is different with respect to its phenomenology, the prerequisites of generation as well as the subsequent appraisals. Regret is affected by individual’s behavioral manners, personality, attribution as well as information of behavioral outcomes. Functional brain areas involved in expectancy and experience of regret mainly include Orbitofrontal cortex, Anterior cingulated, Hippocampus, Amygdala. The experimental approaches and technological measures need to be improved in further studies of regret. Meanwhile, the cognitive mechanism and neural substrate of regret remain to be further explored in future

Key words: regret, disappointment, cognitive mechanism, neural substrate, orbitofrontal cortex

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