Lecter, says Fuller, is "uncategorisable … not a psychopath because he experiences regret, not a sociopath because he experiences empathy; he's a complete work of fiction because most serial killers are, ultimately, just assholes, they kill because they're mean.
Asked whether he experiences regrets akin to those of Alec Baldwin's character in "To Rome with Love," Allen responded, Interestingly, I don't regret anything that I've done, but only certain things that I haven't done.
By comparing children's happiness ratings before and after the outcomes of both choices were known, we measured whether they experienced regret.
We show that in the framework of the discounted utility model experienced regret lowered and experienced rejoicing increased the discount factor.
Participants who reported feeling sadder in the regret condition only were coded as having experienced regret.
Five-year-old participants rarely experienced regret upon learning that a counterfactual prize was better than their actual prize, whereas almost all 9-year-olds experienced regret.
Participants who experienced regret were significantly more likely to switch adaptively than those who did not.
Rates of choice switching in each condition on Day 2, broken down by whether participants experienced regret, are presented in Table 4. Slightly more participants experienced regret than participants did not experience the emotion.
In Experiments 2a and 2b, children aged 6 7 who experienced regret decided adaptively more often than children who did not experience regret, and this held even when controlling for age and verbal ability.
These explanations provide further evidence that participants who experienced regret explicitly and spontaneously recalled Day 1 decision outcomes when making their choice on Day 2, whereas those who did not experience regret did not do so unless prompted.
Four of the eight children who did not give the appropriate response experienced regret and four did not.
