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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 01:00
Counterfactual thinking which means, literally, contrary to the facts. It also refers to thinking about 'what might have been' imagining what might have happened, but didn't.Counterfactual thinking requires the ability to hold two different realities as possibly true so that two sets of similar but separate associations, perceptions, hypotheses, perceptions about reality are held in suspension pending the development of further information or action. Counterfactual means, literally, contrary to the facts. The term counterfactual thinking refers to a set of cognitions involving the simulation of alternatives to past or present factual events or circumstances.
 
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