Why You Always Seem to Choose the 'Wrong' Checkout: "Our Brains Can't Handle the Feeling of Regret Very Well"

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Do you know that feeling of choosing the "wrong checkout" again? But is that feeling always justified? Griet Van Vaerenbergh, lecturer in social psychology at Thomas More Antwerp, explains how our human brain works when we're stuck in a long queue: "We constantly compare ourselves to others and easily imagine what it could have been like if we'd chosen that other line."