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Professor Roese is a globally recognized theorist and expert in the psychology of judgment and decision-making. His research examines basic cognitive processes underlying choice, focusing on how people think about decision options, make predictions about the future, and revise understandings of the past.
He is widely recognized as a leading expert on hindsight bias, counterfactual thinking, and the emotion of regret, and his 2005 book If Only summarized research and insights from the scholarly study of emotion and decision bias.
Education/Academic qualification
Social Psychology, PhD, Western University
… → 1993
Social Psychology, MA, University of Manitoba
… → 1990
Psychology, BSc, University of British Columbia
… → 1987
Research interests keywords
- Consumer decision-making
- Group decision-making
- Intergroup behavior
- Psychology
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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- 1 Finished
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Forensic Animation: Hindsight Bias and Counterfactual Thinking in Judgements of Dynamically Unfolding Events
Roese, N. (PD/PI)
9/15/11 → 7/31/12
Project: Research project
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Motivated Counterfactual Thinking and Moral Inconsistency: How We Use Our Imaginations to Selectively Condemn and Condone
Effron, D. A., Epstude, K. & Roese, N. J., Jun 2024, In: Current Directions in Psychological Science. 33, 3, p. 146-152 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products
Mackin, M. & Roese, N. J., Oct 2024, In: Journal of Research in Personality. 112, 104516.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Polarized imagination: Partisanship influences the direction and consequences of counterfactual thinking
Epstude, K., Effron, D. A. & Roese, N. J., Dec 19 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377, 1866, 20210342.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dispositional optimism weakly predicts upward, rather than downward, counterfactual thinking: A prospective correlational study using episodic recall
Gamlin, J., Smallman, R., Epstude, K. & Roese, N. J., Aug 2020, In: PloS one. 15, 8 August, e0237644.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access4 Scopus citations -
Body camera footage leads to lower judgments of intent than dash camera footage
Turner, B. L., Caruso, E. M., Dilich, M. A. & Roese, N. J., Jan 22 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 4, p. 1201-1206 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access32 Scopus citations
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Supplementary material from "Polarized imagination: partisanship influences the direction and consequences of counterfactual thinking"
Epstude, K. (Creator), Effron, D. A. (Creator) & Roese, N. J. (Creator), The Royal Society, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6189589, https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Polarized_imagination_partisanship_influences_the_direction_and_consequences_of_counterfactual_thinking_/6189589
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