Table 3.
Numbers of Children Giving Each Emotional Response on Day 1 After the Counterfactual Prize Was Revealed in Each Condition in Experiments 2-3, Broken Down by Whether Participants Were Classified as Having Experienced Regret
| Experience regret | Baseline condition | Regret condition | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happier | Sadder | No change | Happier | Sadder | No change | |
| Experiment 2a | ||||||
| Yes (N = 38) | 9 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| No (N = 32) | 7 | 1 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 25 |
| Experiment 2b | ||||||
| Yes (N = 61) | 20 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 61 | 0 |
| No (N = 52) | 14 | 3 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 46 |
| Experiment 3 | ||||||
| Yes (N = 36) | 12 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| No (N = 24) | 7 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 19 |