Emotion in good luck and bad luck: predictions from simplicity theory

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

The feeling of good or bad luck occurs whenever there is an emotion contrast between an event and an easily accessible counterfactual alternative. This study suggests that cognitive simplicity plays a key role in the human ability to experience good and bad luck after the occurrence of an event.

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