Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children

Corbett, Bethany; Feeney, Aidan; McCormack, Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101036

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“…Using this design for emotion manipulation, we ensure that the experience of regret and relief comes from the complete feedback condition: the information given in the counterfactual revelation strongly and systematically moderates the emotional experience regarding the actual outcome, assuring the robustness of the emotion measure. That has been verified in numerous studies ( Burnett et al, 2010 ; Bediou et al, 2011 ; Corbett et al, 2021 ).…”

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Regret Now, Compensate It Later: The Benefits of Experienced Regret on Future Altruism

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This article explores how experienced regret and relief evoked in a risky gambling task influence subsequent intertemporal pro-social behavior. We apply a dictator game experiment with delayed rewards to investigate the effect on donating behavior by simultaneously the time delay when the recipient accepts the donation and the emotions experienced by the participant. We examine this effect using a choice titration procedure. The results reveal that independent of the prior experienced emotions, participants’ donations decrease as the time delay rises; the hyperbolic model provides a better explanation of this finding. Significantly, experienced regret impacts the shape of the social discount function with delayed rewards, which is reflected in notably different discount rates. Participants who experienced regret exhibit a lower discount rate than those in the relief condition. Note that this distinct type of generosity differs significantly at the 14-day delay but not at the shortest and longest. It follows that regret can promote future altruism and intertemporal pro-social behavior, depending on the delay.

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“…During middle childhood and early adolescence, youth who display more prosocial behavior also show less tolerance of social risk, in that they show fewer externalizing and aggressive behaviors, which contradict social expectations for appropriate social conduct (e.g., Hay et al., 2021; Zondervan‐Zwijnenburg et al., 2022). Moreover, 7–9‐year‐old children generally only are willing to engage in prosocial risks (e.g., try to win a prize for another child), if it does not involve the risk of losing their own prize (Corbett et al., 2021). Further, during early adolescence and childhood, youth's sense of morality is relatively more rule‐based and focused on social expectations and exterior cues (Kohlberg, 1976).…”

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Adolescents’ perceptions of social risk and prosocial tendencies: Developmental change and individual differences

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Many prosocial behaviors involve social risks such as speaking out against a popular opinion, bias, group norm, or authority. However, little is known about whether adolescents’ prosocial tendencies develop over time with their perceptions of social risks. This accelerated longitudinal study used within‐subject growth‐curve analyses to test the link between adolescents' prosocial tendencies and social risk perceptions. Adolescents completed self‐reports annually for 3 years (N = 893; Mage = 12.30 years, 10–14 years at Wave 1, and 10–17 years across the full study period; 50% girls, 33% White non‐Latinx, 27% Latinx, 20% African American, 20% mixed/other race). The association between social risk tolerance and prosocial tendencies changed significantly across adolescence. Specifically, for younger adolescents, more prosocial tendencies were associated significantly with less social risk tolerance, whereas for relatively older adolescents, more prosocial tendencies were associated marginally with more social risk tolerance. Additional individual differences by empathy (but not sensation seeking) emerged. These findings suggest that prosocial tendencies across adolescence may be associated with an underlying ability to tolerate social risks.

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“…This research also suggests that, although they occur in similar contexts, interpersonal regret and guilt are distinguishable (Breugelmans et al. ); for present purposes, we will assume that interpersonal regret but not guilt necessarily involves counterfactual thought (for discussion, see Corbett et al., 2021, Uprichard & McCormack, 2018).…”

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“…Alongside PSRT we also measured a further understudied construct, namely interpersonal regret (Corbett et al., 2021). One important reason for developmentalists to study regret is that experiencing regret can help individuals to learn from past mistakes (Roese & Epstude, 2017), with this type of learning from regret having already been observed in children (McCormack et al., 2020).…”

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Prosocial risk taking and interpersonal regret in children: An individual differences study

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The relations between prosocial risk taking (taking a risk to benefit another person; PSRT) and interpersonal regret (regret that one's choices have caused a poor outcome for another person) were examined in 192 children aged 7-9.PSRT was measured by children's choices within a gambling task in which one choice guaranteed participants a good prize whereas the other involved risking this prize to help a peer also win a good prize. Interpersonal regret was assessed within the same task by examining children's change in emotion when they learned they would have won a better prize for a peer had they chosen differently. Performance on this task was also examined in relation to sympathy and resource sharing. Findings indicated that the operationalizations of PSRT and interpersonal regret were meaningful. Children who took a prosocial risk were more generous in a resource sharing task. In some circumstances, children who took a prosocial risk were also more likely to experience interpersonal regret than those who did not take a prosocial risk, indicating that experiencing interpersonal regret may be related to individual differences in prosociality. However, experiencing interpersonal regret did not have a direct effect on subsequent prosocial behavior, when measured byThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Regret Now, Compensate It Later: The Benefits of Experienced Regret on Future Altruism

Regret Now, Compensate It Later: The Benefits of Experienced Regret on Future Altruism

Adolescents’ perceptions of social risk and prosocial tendencies: Developmental change and individual differences

Prosocial risk taking and interpersonal regret in children: An individual differences study

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