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    "pk": 25677,
    "title": "Near-misses sting even when they are uncontrollable",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Observers often judge agents who miss a desired outcome by a\nsmall, compared to a large, margin to be less happy. This nearmiss\neffect has typically been examined in situations where\nthe agents have control over outcomes (e.g., missing a flight).\nHere, we extend this work in three ways. First, we show\nthat near-miss effects play into observers’ intuitive theories of\nemotion even for randomly-determined outcomes over which\nagents demonstrably have no control. Second, we find data\nconsistent with a hypothesis in which—even in randomly determined\ncases—near-miss effects reflect an illusion of control\nover those events. Finally, we integrate near-miss effects into a\nbroader model of affective cognition, and quantify the psychological\ncost of a missing a desired outcome by relatively little\ndistance, relative to winning or losing that outcome",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Near-Miss; Counterfactual Distance; Lay Theories;\nEmotion; Illusory Control"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99x3m02n",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Desmond",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Ong",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Noah",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Goodman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jamil",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zaki",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}