Regret and Responsibility Resolved? Evaluating Ordóñez and Connolly's (2000) Conclusions
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesPublished 1 January 2000Open access
Marcel Zeelenberg, W. van Dijk, Antony S. R. Manstead
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This rejoinder discusses Ordóñez and Connolly's new studies and discusses the validity of their 4 conclusions, which concluded that regret need not be related to a sense of responsibility for the regretted outcome.
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T. Connolly, L. D. Ordo;aan;atez, and R. Coughlan (1997, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 70, 73-85) argued, on the basis of 5 experiments, that regret need not be related to a sense of responsibility for the regretted outcome. We (M. Zeelenberg, W. W. van Dijk, & A. S. R. Manstead, 1998, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 74, 254-272) showed in 2 experiments that this conclusion was premature, because it was based on an indirect measure of regret (i.e., overall happiness with the decision outcome). When regret was directly measured, the predicted effects of responsibility were found. L. D. Ordo;aan;atez and T. Connolly (2000, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 81, 132-142) replicated our findings in 2 experiments. Based on their findings they arrived at 4 conclusions. In this rejoinder we first discuss Ordóñez and Connolly's new studies and we then discuss the validity of their 4 conclusions. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
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