Neal Roese:
"Counterfactual thoughts are thoughts of what might have been, of what could have happened had some detail, or action, or outcome been different in the past. Whenever we say 'if only' or 'almost', or use words like 'could', 'would' or 'should', we may be expressing a counterfactual thought ..."
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"people's sense of identity and personality can be shaped by forks in the road, by the lives they might have lived, the riches and disasters that might have been. At the unconscious level, each event in our lives gains meaning via a silent comparison to an alternative, counterfactual event that might have taken place instead."
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"people's sense of identity and personality can be shaped by forks in the road, by the lives they might have lived, the riches and disasters that might have been. At the unconscious level, each event in our lives gains meaning via a silent comparison to an alternative, counterfactual event that might have taken place instead."
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