People experience regulatory fit (E. T. Higgins, 2000) when the strategic manner of their goal pursuit suits their regulatory orientation, and this regulatory fit feels right. Fit violation feels wrong. Four studies tested the proposal that experiences of fit can transfer to moral evaluations. The authors examined transfer of feeling wrong from fit violation by having participants in a promotio...

Who could disagree with the seemingly common-sense reasoning that: “We must learn from the things that go wrong.”? Despite major investments to improve patient safety, relatively few evaluations demonstrate convincing reductions in risk, harm, serious error or death. This disappointing trajectory of improvement from learning from errors or Safety-I as it is sometimes known has led some research...

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argued that emotions are adaptive when they are about the right things, are expressed in the right way, arise at the right time, and last the right amount of time. By contrast, emotions are maladaptive when they are about the wrong things, are expressed in the wrong way, arise at the wrong time, or are the wrong duration. This analysis led Aristotle to recom...