Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2017/Counterfactual thinking motivation

Comments
Awesome lay out, very well structured with clear easy to read headings! Looks neat and easy to follow!

Suggestions
Hi, I came across this article detailing a study out of the University of California/Haas School of Business. It states that counterfactual thinkers are more motivated and analytical in organisational settings. This may be useful when detailing the implications of this motivation on everyday life - University of California, Berkeley / Haas School of Business. "'Counterfactual' thinkers are more motivated and analytical, study suggests." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 February 2010. . Another study by Chan, Caputi, Jayasuriya and Browne (2013) looking at 'counterfactual thinking and anticipated emotions enhance performance in computer skills training' found that positive anticipated emotions were associated with improvement in task performance for the counterfactual group but not the control group. This shows that combining positive anticipated emotions and counterfactual thinking results in improved task performance. Although this is based around computer skills training, it may have implications for future training and education. Depending on where you hope to take you topis, I hope this helps. --U3038747 (discuss • contribs) 02:00, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

=References= Hi, upon looking at your book chapter progress I noticed that your references were not formatted with a hanging indent as per APA. I have added this for you. Incase it is deleted or you would like to assist others with this, you can achieve a hanging indent by copying and pasting the code from this post/the reference list by going into edit source. Very interesting topic, I look forward to reading it when it is completed! --U3143144 (discuss • contribs) 22:47, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

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Feedback
Overall this is a great layout for your book chapter. Seems like an interesting topic. My suggestion would be to put more emphasis on how counterfactual thinking can enhance daily life - which is the overarching theme of the book. I realise there is a section which states the pros and cons but perhaps in your conclusion explicitly state HOW the pros can help people from day to day. Wishing you good results! U3119288 (discuss • contribs) 03:07, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Wishmi! I really enjoyed reading through your chapter. I can see from your contents that you did quite a lot of research on your topic. I really like the way you have laid out your book chapter especially how you have included a quiz section midway through (it's a great refresher) as well as one towards the end of the book chapter. Something I feel you could have included within your chapter is a case study so we can associate it more to everyday life. But overall, great work! I can see you worked really hard on this. Good with the rest of semester! :) U3151881 (discuss • contribs) 05:52, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Reference
Hi Wishmi,

This is a really good structure for your book chapter and I would just like to recommend the following article:

Roese, N. J., & Epstude, K. (2017). Chapter One – The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking: New Evidence, New Challenges, New Insights.

The article goes into solid detail about the functional theory behind counterfactual thinking and some of the criticisms behind the approach. I think it makes for a good supporting article and includes some of the challenges behind the theory.

All the best with it Edward EdwardFarrell (discuss • contribs) 22:34, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Additional Reference for Consideration
Hi Wishmi,

Following on from my previous recommendation, I recommend the following article: 'Upward counterfactual thinking and depression: A meta-analysis' - Broomhall, Phillips, Hine and Lois.

The article goes into the correlation between upward counterfactual thinking and depression, it would make a valuable reference for both the 'upward thinking' and the cons of counterfactual thinking.

I hope this is of value.

Edward EdwardFarrell (discuss • contribs) 20:06, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback
Hey there! Sorry that I am a little late to add on some feedback to your topic. But just in case you had interest in tightening up the chapter later I have some little notes!

I found reading over it very interesting! Your structure is very simple and easy to follow. I like that you used a large number of quiz questions; however it might have been useful to remove the "these are example quiz questions" - and create your own subtitle, as they aren't examples anymore - they are your quiz questions (as I'm pretty sure that sentence was from the template providing us with example quiz questions). An addition of an image in the 'counterfactual thinking' section could also really help break up the big block of writing and make it easier to read.

Also, readers might benefit from additional information; possibly in the way of brackets - alongside any links you provided in the external links section. This would help them understand what they are about to open on their computer, and make a decision as to whether they really need to/find it interesting.

Overall - congratulations on your topic!!

Demibree (discuss • contribs) 22:16, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:25, 27 November 2017 (UTC)