You stayed up all night cramming for an examination and didn't do as well as you had hoped."If only I had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest,I'd have done much better," you think to yourself.You have just engaged in

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Counterfactual thinking involves thinking about alternative outcomes or scenarios that could have occurred if things had been done differently. In this scenario, the person is thinking about how they could have done better if they had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest, which is an example of counterfactual thinking. The other answer choices (self-justification, wish fulfillment, hindsight bias, and unrealistic fantasy) do not accurately describe the type of thinking happening in this scenario.

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