Blix, Ines, Kanten, Alf Børre, Wentzel-Larsen, Tore, Undset, Andrea Barsnes, Rustand, Andrea Nordvoll & Thoresen, Siri (2025). Counterfactual thinking within the first year after sexual assault: examining associations with posttraumatic stress reactions in the (Norwegian) TRUST-study. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. ISSN 2000-8066. 16(1) doi:
Teigen, Karl Halvor & Kanten, Alf Børre (2022). Out of the blue: on the suddenness of perceived chance events. Thinking and Reasoning. ISSN 1354-6783. doi:
Blix, Ines, Kanten, Alf Børre, Birkeland, Marianne Skogbrott & Thoresen, Siri (2018). Imagining What Could Have Happened: Types and Vividness of Counterfactual Thoughts and the Relationship With Post-traumatic Stress Reactions. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 9 doi:
Blix, Ines, Kanten, Alf Børre, Birkeland, Marianne Skogbrott, Solberg, Øivind, Nissen, Alexander & Heir, Trond (2016). Thinking About What Might Have Happened: Counterfactual Thinking and Post-traumatic Stress in Individuals Directly and Indirectly Exposed to the 2011 Oslo Bombing. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080. 30(6) p 983-991. doi:
Kanten, Alf Børre & Teigen, Karl Halvor (2015). A Magnitude Effect in Judgments of Subjective Closeness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. ISSN 0146-1672. 41(12) p 1712-1722. doi:
Kanten, Alf Børre (2011). The effect of construal level on predictions of task duration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-1031. 47(6) p 1037-1047. doi:
Teigen, Karl Halvor, Kanten, Alf Børre & Terum, Jens Andreas (2011). Going to the other extreme: Counterfactual thinking leads to polarised judgements. Thinking and Reasoning. ISSN 1354-6783. 17(1) p 1-29. doi:
Kanten, Alf Børre & Teigen, Karl Halvor (2008). Better than average and better with time: Relative evaluations of self and others in the past, present, and future. European Journal of Social Psychology. ISSN 0046-2772. 38 p 343-353. doi:
Kanten, Alf Børre, Blix, Ines, Birkeland, Marianne Skogbrott & Thoresen, Siri (2026). Counterfactual thinking, event centrality, and posttraumatic stress.
Løhre, Erik & Kanten, Alf Børre (2020). Communicated and perceived public consensus about climate change.
Kanten, Alf Børre (2020). Det som "måtte skje". Minerva. ISSN 0026-4695. September
Teigen, Karl Halvor, Keren, Gideon & Kanten, Alf Børre (2019). Are random events rare and small? Intuitive connotations of perceived chance events.
Kanten, Alf Børre (2018). Om tenkning og avstander. Psykologisk.no.
Kanten, Alf Børre & Teigen, Karl Halvor (2015). A Magnitude Effect in Judgments of Subjective Closeness.
Kanten, Alf Børre & Strand, Tormod (2015). Intervju på NRK (Dagsrevyen) i forbindelse med en reportasje om det å gripe inn når andre er i nød.
Teigen, Karl Halvor, Kanten, Alf Børre & Terum, Jens Andreas (2010). Going to the other extreme: The role of contrasts in counterfactual thinking.
Kanten, Alf Børre (2010). The effect of construal level on prediction of task duration.
Teigen, Karl Halvor, Filkukova, Petra, Kanten, Alf Børre & Terum, Jens Andreas (2010). Det som kan skje er lite sannsynlig: Om tenkning i ytterligheter.
Kanten, Alf Børre (2009). The role of abstract versus concrete processing modes in time estimation.
Kanten, Alf Børre (2007). The better-than-average improvement effect.
2022 - now
Førsteamanuensis
Høyskolen Kristiania
2015 - 2022
Førsteamanuensis
Oslo Nye Høyskole
2012 - 2017
Postdoktor
Universitetet i Oslo
2007 - 2011
Stipendiat
Simula Research Laboratory og Universitetet i Oslo
