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Roese, Neal J. was born on February 13, 1965 in Vancouver, Canada. Son of Joseph and Geraldine Roese.
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Neal J. Roese
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Education
In 1987 from the University of British Columbia, his Master of Arts in 1990 from the University of Manitoba, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1993 from the University of Western Ontario with the dissertation "The functional basis of counterfactual thinking".
Career
Trained as a social psychologist, he is most well known for his work on judgment and decision making, counterfactual thinking, and regret. He received his Bachelor of Science He was an Associate at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 2008-2009.
Doctor Roese returned to Northwestern University as Professor of Marketing in 2009, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology.
In his current position, he teaches Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy courses centering on consumer choice. Neal Roese has published scholarly articles on topics including memory biases, emotion, and legal decision making.
He is the author of the 2005 book, If Only, which focused on the experience of regret in daily life. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 289 libraries He edited, with James M. Olson, the 1995 book What might have been: The social psychology of counterfactual thinking.
( Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum).
According to WorldCat, the book is held in 423 libraries
His work has been profiled in such outlets as Business Insider, Columbia Broadcasting System News, National Public Radio, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Harvard Business Review. His research on Counterfactual thinking has shown that counterfactual thoughts and regret can be beneficial in that they feed into learning from experience. Certain kinds of counterfactuals and regrets connect specifically to distinct motivational states, such as orientations toward either promotion or prevention.
His research on regret has covered several topics, ranging from decision consequences of regret to the mental health implications of major life regrets.
He also was contributed to the theoretical understanding of "hindsight bias," defined as the tendency to see the past as more predictable than it was in foresight. As such, hindsight bias is a potent and widely studied cognitive trap for many decision makers.
In 2012, he published a comprehensive review and theoretical reformulation of the scholarly literature on hindsight bias, spanning the disciplines of psychology, law, medicine, economics, political science, and history. In earlier research, he showed that cognitive processes that serve to explain, clarify, and elaborate on events contribute to hindsight bias.
In fact, visualization tools that help to manage big data sets may paradoxically increase hindsight bias by contributing to an illusion of clarity.
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Married Karen Grabowski, June 4, 1994. Children: Emma, Anna.
