Name
Abstract | ||
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Observers often judge agents who miss a desired outcome by a small, compared to a large, margin to be less happy. This nearmiss effect has typically been examined in situations where the agents have control over outcomes (e.g., missing a flight). Here, we extend this work in three ways. First, we show that near-miss effects play into observers’ intuitive theories of emotion even for randomly-determined outcomes over which agents demonstrably have no control. Second, we find data consistent with a hypothesis in which—even in randomly determined cases—near-miss effects reflect an illusion of control over those events. Finally, we integrate near-miss effects into a broader model of affective cognition, and quantify the psychological cost of a missing a desired outcome by relatively little distance, relative to winning or losing that outcome. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2015 | CogSci | Social psychology,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Sting,Affect (psychology),Cognition,Illusion of control,Near miss |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desmond Ong | 1 | 10 | 5.23 |
| Goodman, Noah | 2 | 947 | 106.60 |
| Jamil Zaki | 3 | 35 | 6.54 |