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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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Grants
- 1 Finished
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Forensic Animation: Hindsight Bias and Counterfactual Thinking in Judgements of Dynamically Unfolding Events
9/15/11 → 7/31/12
Project: Research project
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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
3 Scopus citations -
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 Access3 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 Access18 Scopus citations -
Do episodic counterfactual thoughts focus on controllable action? The role of self-initiation
Roese, N. J., Smallman, R. & Epstude, K., Nov 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 73, p. 14-23 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
21 Scopus citations -
The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking: New Evidence, New Challenges, New Insights
Roese, N. J. & Epstude, K., 2017, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Academic Press Inc, p. 1-79 79 p. (Advances in Experimental Social Psychology; vol. 56).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
142 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. (Creator), The Royal Society, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6189589.v1, https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Polarized_imagination_partisanship_influences_the_direction_and_consequences_of_counterfactual_thinking_/6189589/1
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