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Predictions and outcomes independently shape the subjective experience of regret

2026-06-08

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<p>Humans have the capacity to feel a subjective sense of regret – a rather sophisticated emotion that involves counterfactual simulation of the options not pursued when we act and decide. Pathological levels of regret are also a hallmark of multiple psychiatric conditions. However, little is understood about how subjective feelings of regret connect to the learning and inference processes we use to make decisions...

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Literature Corpus work: 8b45d991-28e9-5ea1-9d4a-b5ece650d08d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sjtg7_v1

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