In two studies participants were asked to make a decision about whether they would hire a job applicant described in a fictitious vita. Later, participants were shown the vita of a second applicant and rated the extent to which they regretted their original decision. Participants who were mildly depressed reported higher levels of regret than non-depressed participants. This heightened regret level was observed: (1) regardless of whether participants had decided to hire the initial candidate; (2) independently of whether the decision had high or low personal relevance to participants; and (3) regardless of the extent to which the second candidate was a better candidate for the job than the first applicant. The results of causal modeling analyses suggest that the construct of depression predicts these regret results independently of related constructs, such as locus of control or causal uncertainty. 665This project was instigated as a part of the first author's senior honors thesis. The second author (J.J. Skowronski) supervised the thesis, and the third author (Wm. MacDonald) was one of the examining committee members. We thank Judith Johnson for her willingness to also serve on the examination committee. We thank Gifford Weary for her assistance in clarifying relations between locus of control, causal uncertainty and depression, and for her comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. We thank the many reviewers of this manuscript for their careful examination of the manuscript and for their suggestions for improving it.Correspondence should be sent to John Skowronski, Northern Illinois University, Department of Psychology,