Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of U.S. Human Spaceflight Symposium

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 Back, Looking Forward: 55 Years of Human Factors

I began my tenure as editor in chief of Human Factors, I thought it would be informative to look at previously published editorials in the journal. I was intrigued by what I found in the first issue, published in 1958. Stanley Lippert, the first editor in chief, introduced the publication with an informal, conversational essay titled " A Home of Our Own. " He wrote about human factors specialis...

Looking forward to looking backward: the misprediction of regret.

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...