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Remembering and regretting: The Zeigarnik effect and the cognitive availability of regrettable actio...

Remembering and regretting: The Zeigarnik effect and the cognitive availability of regrettable actio...

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Remembering and regretting: The Zeigarnik effect and the cognitive availability of regrettable actions and indications

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Remembering and regretting: The Zeigarnik effect and the cognitive availability of regrettable actions and indications

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Thousand Oaks: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC

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Personality & social psychology bulletin, 1997-03, Vol.23 (3), p.248

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English

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Thousand Oaks: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC

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The systematic temporal pattern for regrets seems to be that regretable commissions loom larger in the short term, while regretable omissions are more prominent in the long run. Savitsky et al examined whether this pattern can be attributed to peoples' tendency to remember incompleted tasks better than completed tasks (the Zeigarnik effect).

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Remembering and regretting: The Zeigarnik effect and the cognitive availability of regrettable actions and indications

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_214010996

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0146-1672

E-ISSN

1552-7433

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