Dispositional optimism weakly predicts upward, rather than downward, counterfactual thinking: A prospective correlational study using episodic recall

• Jessica Gamlin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jgamlin@uoregon.edu

  Affiliation Department of Marketing, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9993-8637

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• Rachel Smallman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Kai Epstude,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

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• Neal J. Roese

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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