{
  "id": "buyers-remorse.own-choice",
  "term": "buyer's remorse",
  "sense": "own-choice",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A self model reading a choice it made soon before as a wall it set on itself, now the choice is out of its reach.",
  "folk_gloss": "regret felt soon after making a purchase or decision",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "set.fix",
      "regret.emotional",
      "read.information",
      "choice.decision",
      "make.verb",
      "soon.temporal",
      "time.dimension",
      "wall.range-end",
      "reach.action"
    ],
    "interaction": "The self is both the setter and the one whose walls are set; the report comes soon after choosing, when the other path is still vivid but no longer open.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a wall set by oneself and read as imposed",
      "regret that arrives at the moment of commitment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "EU consumer law gives buyers a 14-day right to withdraw from most online purchases, during which a buyer who regrets a purchase can cancel it.",
      "domain": "law"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "regret.emotional",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "regret, located right after one's own choice"
    },
    {
      "id": "sense-of-betrayal.trusted",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "betrayal locates the setter in another; remorse locates it in the self"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "buyer remorse",
    "buyers remorse",
    "voters remorse"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-buyers-remorse.own-choice"
}