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Making decisions about the future : regret and the cognitive function of episodic memory

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Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa (2016) Making decisions about the future : regret and the cognitive function of episodic memory. In: Michaelian, Kourken and Klein, Stanley B. and Szpunar, Karl, (eds.) Seeing the future : theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 241-266. ISBN 9780190241537

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Abstract

In the recent literature on episodic memory, there has been increasing recognition of the need to provide an account of its adaptive function. In this context, it is sometimes argued that episodic memory is critical for certain forms of decision-making about the future. The authors of this chapter criticize existing accounts that try to give episodic memory a role in decision-making, before providing a novel account of their own. This turns on the thought of a link between episodic memory and the emotion of regret. The authors discuss how both experienced and anticipated regret can have a distinctive influence on decision-making, and argue that the ability to recollect past events in episodic memory underpins the capacity to engage in the sophisticated types of mental time travel recruited in experiencing and anticipating regret.

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Episodic memory , Decision making, Regret
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
ISBN: 9780190241537
Book Title: Seeing the future : theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel
Editor: Michaelian, Kourken and Klein, Stanley B. and Szpunar, Karl
Official Date: July 2016
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July 2016Published
August 2015Submitted
Page Range: pp. 241-266
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Funder: Spain. Government, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Grant number: Project no. FFI2012-35153 (Spain. Government), ES/K000411/1 (ESRC)
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