What do human beings use conditional reasoning for? A psychological consequence of counterfactual conditional reasoning is emotional experience, in particular, regret and relief. Adults’ thoughts about what might have been influence their evaluations of reality. We discuss recent psychological experiments that chart the relationship between children’s ability to engage in conditional reasoning ...

the increase in the number of university graduates, especially at ma level, in the recent years on one hand and the disproportionate growth of employment on the other hand, has made graduates unemployment one of the major challenges of the country. most students prefer to be employed, while employment capacity in society and increase in the number of students do not match closely. entrepreneurs...

Recent research has shown that large proportions of regular ecstasy users (REU) experience psychological distress, apparently independent of their ecstasy use [1]. It has been suggested that specific drugs, as well as polydrug use alone, may impact on psychological wellbeing among users [2]. There is some evidence that cannabis use is associated with psychological distress among REU [1, 3]. Met...

This paper examines the possibility that fluency – the subjective experience of ease or difficulty associated with cognitive processing – has an impact on the psychological distance of stimuli. Two studies directly examine the relationship between fluency and psychological distance. Five additional studies look at the implications of that relationship.