This article examines the effects of counterfactual thinking on information processing. We conceptualize counterfactual thinking--a process of mentally undoing the outcome of an event by imagining alternate antecedent states--as a problem-solving process that will increase scrutiny of...

This research examines whether mental budgets, defined as self-specified allowances for behaviors, can help with self-control. We theorize that mental budgets will lead to greater self-control when the avoidance aspects of the behavior are made salient and when the decision context allows easy...