In a way, it seems like there's no point wondering what could have been — if you hadn't screwed up that job interview, if you'd worked up the nerve to text that girl, if you'd trusted your gut a ...

"What if” thinking is a natural, adaptive cognitive process that supports learning and emotional resilience. We benefit more ...

Sometimes when we look back, we think about how things could have been better: If only I had gotten that part in that play when I was in high school . . . then I ...

Have you ever been in that meeting where things goes awry and you immediately feel your stomach tie up in knots? You can tell something is wrong–maybe what you said or didn’t say, or did or didn’t do.

New research shows that our counterfactual thinking may be markedly different when we are actually experiencing failure rather than reading about someone else's. If you're like most people, you've ...

At Friday’s 100-meter butterfly finals, three men — Michael Phelps, South Africa’s Chad le Clos, and Hungarian Laszlo Cseh — scored a rare three-way tie for silver, clocking in at 51.14 seconds behind ...