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The regret and disappointment scale: An instrument for assessing regret and disappointment in decision making (2008)
| Venue: | Judgment and Decision Making |
| Citations: | 4 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Marcatto08theregret,
author = {Francesco Marcatto and Donatella Ferrante},
title = {The regret and disappointment scale: An instrument for assessing regret and disappointment in decision making},
journal = {Judgment and Decision Making},
year = {2008},
pages = {87--99}
}
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Abstract
The present article investigates the effectiveness of methods traditionally used to distinguish between the emotions of regret and disappointment and presents a new method — the Regret and Disappointment Scale (RDS) — for assessing the two emotions in decision making research. The validity of the RDS was tested in three studies. Study 1 used two scenarios, one prototypical of regret and the other of disappointment, to test and compare traditional methods (“How much regret do you feel ” and “How much disappointment do you feel”) with the RDS. Results showed that only the RDS clearly differentiated between the constructs of regret and disappointment. Study 2 confirmed the validity of the RDS in a real-life scenario, in which both feelings of regret and disappointment could be experienced. Study 2 also demonstrated that the RDS can discriminate between regret and disappointment with results similar to those obtained by using a context-specific scale. Study 3 showed the advantages of the RDS over the traditional methods in gambling situations commonly used in decision making research, and provided evidence for the convergent validity of the RDS.
