title: Behavioural consequences of regret and disappointment in social bargaining games.
abstract: Previous research on the role of negative emotions in social bargaining games has focused primarily on social emotions such as anger and guilt. In this article, we provide a test for behavioural differences between two prototypical decision-related negative emotions-regret and disappointment-in one-shot social dilemma games. Three experiments with two different emotion-induction procedures (autobiographical recall and imagined scenarios) and two different games (the ultimatum game and the 10-coin give-some game) revealed that regret increased prosocial behaviour, whereas disappointment decreased prosocial behaviour. These results extend previous findings concerning differences between regret and disappointment to interdependent (social) situations.
authors: Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. L.Martinez@uvt.nl
authors: Luis M F
authors: LM
authors: Martinez
authors: Marcel
authors: M
authors: Zeelenberg
authors: John B
authors: JB
authors: Rijsman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017008:Negotiating; D012919:Social Behavior