{"pk":24702,"title":"Young children recognise when others experience regret and relief","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The counterfactual emotions of regret and relief arise from considering how the present would look had one taken an alternative past action. We investigated if 4- to 9-year-old children (N = 192) could identify others' regret and relief by watching videos of actors choosing between two boxes that concealed a better or worse prize. Each actor first looked inside the chosen box and made a happy or sad facial expression, and children were then shown the contents of that box. Critically, the actor then looked inside the non-chosen box and made either a happy or sad facial expression, and children were asked what they thought was inside. Children aged 6 years and older were able to identify that the non-chosen box concealed a better prize when the actor was sad, and a worse prize when the actor was happy. The abilities to experience and recognise counterfactual emotions may develop concurrently.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Cognitive development; Development; Emotion; Social cognition; Developmental analysis"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7774h5k5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alicia","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Jones","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Queensland","department":""},{"first_name":"Nicole","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nelson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Adelaide","department":""},{"first_name":"Shalini","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gautam","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Redshaw","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Queensland","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24702/galley/21753/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24702/galley/14300/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24702/galley/18138/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24702/galley/21753/download/"}]}