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regret  

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  • Regret is the negative emotion that we experience when realizing or imagining that our present situation would have been better had we decided or acted differently. Regret originates in a comparison between outcomes of a chosen course of action and the nonchosen alternatives in which the latter outperform the former. [Source: Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making; Regret]

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