ABSTRACT
The essays in this volume attest to the rapid advances achieved in a relatively short period of time in the psychological study of counterfactual thinking. Some of the advances are methodological: Research has moved far beyond vignettes to the study of real counterfactual emotions and causal intuitions in the laboratory and in the world. New topics of research have also emerged, including the preparatory function of counterfactual thinking (chapters 5, 6, and 10), and individual differences in the generation of various types of counterfactual thoughts (chapters 3 and 10). And there is more to come. In this chapter I focus on topics that may further enlarge the domain that students of counterfactual thinking call their own.
