This new study, to be published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, focused on regret. Among other things, the researchers asked a random sample of the American population to describe a major regret in their lives and then categorized those regrets into life areas. The takeaway that reporters chose to lead with was the finding that romantic regrets are the most common, and that women are more likely to have romantic regrets, while men are more likely to have regrets about their careers. I found the news stories to be pretty accurate as far as how they reported the study–the problem, this time, comes from how we’re trained to read the media.