People adjust their behavior after committing an error. They respond more slowly (Danielmeier & Ullsperger, 2011), more accurately (Danielmeier & Ullsperger, 2011) and also tend to voluntarily switch to another task (Spitzer et al., 2022) or strategy to solve the same task (Aust et al., 2025). However, switching the strategy after an error seems to depend on the strategy used before. Mental errors elicit a strong tendency to switch to an offloading strategy, while errors using the offloading strategy do not elicit the same tendency to switch back. We therefore conducted 3 experiments to explore this phenomenon, manipulating error source attribution (externally vs. internally caused), error probability and measuring affective response. Our results indicate, that neither error probability nor error source attribution can explain the asymmetry found in post error strategy switches. However, the affect elicited by the two strategies and error conditions does vary in accordance with the switch tendency.