Each fork affords flexibility and control, which individuals may exploit to justify the judgment they are motivated to make.

Citations: Roese, Neal, Kai Epstude. 2017. The functional theory of counterfactual thinking: New evidence, new controversies, new insights. Advances in experimental ...

Counterfactual thinking is the process of imagining how an event could have turned out differently (for example: "If Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy, someone else would have"). The authors argue that ...