Alf Børre Kanten

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

• Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad, Løhre, Erik, Skjellet, Jenny & Kanten, Alf Børre (2025). Communicated and Perceived Public Consensus About Climate Change. Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 11(1) doi:
  10.1525/collabra.130896
• 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:
  10.1080/20008066.2025.2506208
• 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:
  10.1080/13546783.2022.2047105
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• Teigen, Karl Halvor & Kanten, Alf Børre (2019). Are random events expected to be small? Psychological Research. ISSN 0340-0727. doi:
  10.1007/s00426-019-01252-9
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• 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:
  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00515
• 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) s 983-991. doi:
  10.1002/acp.3289
• 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) s 1712-1722. doi:
  10.1177/0146167215609894
• Kanten, Alf Børre (2011). The effect of construal level on predictions of task duration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-1031. 47(6) s 1037-1047. doi:
  10.1016/j.jesp.2011.04.005
• 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) s 1-29. doi:
  10.1080/13546783.2010.537491
• 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 s 343-353. doi:
  10.1002/ejsp.457

Formidling

• 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 - nå
  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
• 2006 - 2007
  Universitetslektor
  Universitetet i Oslo

• 2012
  PhD i psykologi
  Universitetet i Oslo
• 2006
  Mastergrad i psykologi
  Universitetet i Oslo
• 2004
  Bachelorgrad i kultur og samfunnsfag
  Universitetet i Oslo