Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods: Looking Backward, Facing Forward

Looking Forward to Looking Backward

Decisions are powerfully affected by anticipated regret, and people anticipate feeling more regret when they lose by a narrow margin than when they lose by a wide margin. But research suggests that people are remarkably good at avoiding self-blame, and hence they may be better at avoiding regret than they realize. Four studies measured people’s anticipations and experiences of regret and self-b...

Deregulation: Looking Backward and Looking Forward

Forward-Looking Versus Backward-Looking Taylor Rules*

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Looking Forward and Looking Backward : Cognitive and Experiential

Research support from the Sol Snider Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and the Division of Research, Harvard Business School is gratefully acknowledged. We have benefited from the comments of seminar participants at the Dallas ORSA/TIMS Meeting; Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; Sloan School of Management, MIT; Anderson School of Man...

Backward- and Forward-Looking Potential of Anaphors

Personal pronouns and demonstratives contribute differently to the encoding of information in the mental model and they serve distinct backward- and forward-looking functions. While (unstressed) personal pronouns are the default means to indicate coreference with the most prominent discourse entity (backward-looking function) and typically mark the maintenance of the current topic, demonstrativ...