It is “the unpleasant feeling associated with some action or inaction a person has taken which has led to a state of affairs that he or she wishes were different,” say the psychotherapists.[1] “Regret is created by a comparison between the actual outcome and that outcome that would have occurred had the decision maker made a different choice,” say the management theorists.[2] It is “a feeling of unpleasure associated with a thought of the past, together with the identification of an object and the announcement of an inclination to behave in a certain way in the future,”
