Alf Børre Kanten
Student
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Department of Psychology
Academic interests
I am mainly interested in themes related to social cognition
- Unrealistic optimism
- Social and temporal comparison processes
- Psychological distance
- Assimilation and contrast effects
- Planning
Teaching
- PSY2102 - Sosial kognisjon
- PSY4301 - Judgment and Decision-Making and Social Cognition
- PSYC3102 - Prosjekt - sosialpsykologi
- PSYC1204 - Innføring i sosial - og personlighetspsykologi
Higher education and employment history
I have a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Oslo. I worked one year as a lecturer before starting my PhD work in 2007.
Publications
- 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
- 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.
- 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 (2009). The role of abstract versus concrete processing modes in time estimation.
- Kanten, Alf Børre (2007). The better-than-average improvement effect.
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