2026 Karl Halvor Teigen: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	35	9883	9251	92	88	114	5044

Overview

Karl Halvor Teigen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily spans the field of Decision Sciences, with a focus on General Decision Sciences along with contributions to Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics covered in Teigen's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology, Speech and Dialogue Systems, Communication in Education and Healthcare, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, and Categorization, Perception, and Language.

Recent publications demonstrate a sustained interest in uncertainty communication, decision processes, and the perception of randomness. Notable papers include:

"Dimensions of uncertainty communication: What is conveyed by verbal terms and numeric ranges" (2022) in Current Psychology
"When leaders disclose uncertainty: Effects of expressing internal and external uncertainty about a decision" (2023) in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
"What is a "likely" amount? Representative (modal) values are considered likely even when their probabilities are low" (2022) in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
"Combining verbal forecasts: The role of directionality and the reinforcement effect" (2022) in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
"Are random events perceived as rare? On the relationship between perceived randomness and outcome probability" (2020) in Memory & Cognition

Teigen has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Marie Juanchich, Erik Løhre, Miroslav Sirota, Svein Magnussen, and Gideon Keren. Among these, Marie Juanchich stands out as a frequent collaborator on multiple projects.

Their research has been published in venues such as the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Lov og Rett, Current Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Best Publications

Verbal probabilities: Ambiguous, context-dependent, or both?

Wibecke Brun;Karl Halvor Teigen

373
Citations
Societal risks as seen by a Norwegian public

Karl Halvor Teigen;Wibecke Brun;Paul Slovic

245
Citations
The directionality of verbal probability expressions: Effects on decisions, predictions, and probabilistic reasoning.

Karl Halvor Teigen;Wibecke Brun

232
Citations
When 90% confidence intervals are 50% certain: on the credibility of credible intervals

Karl Halvor Teigen;Magne JØrgensen

224
Citations
Overestimation of subjective probabilities

Karl Halvor Teigen

199
Citations
Subjective sampling distributions and the additivity of estimates

Karl Halvor Teigen

187
Citations
Studies in subjective probability III: The unimportance of alternatives

Karl Halvor Teigen

187
Citations
Surprises: low probabilities or high contrasts?

KH Karl Teigen;GB Gideon Keren

168
Citations
Yes, but it is uncertain: Direction and communicative intention of verbal probabilistic terms

Karl Halvor Teigen;Wibecke Brun

167
Citations
Yet Another Look at the Heuristics and Biases Approach

GB Gideon Keren;KH Karl Teigen

149
Citations
The language of uncertainty

Karl Halvor Teigen

132
Citations
Luck, envy and gratitude: It could have been different

Karl Halvor Teigen

132
Citations
Better than average and better with time: relative evaluations of self and others in the past, present, and future

Alf Børre Kanten;Karl Halvor Teigen

112
Citations
Prediction and postdiction preferences in guessing

Wibecke Brun;Karl Halvor Teigen

109
Citations
Giver–receiver asymmetries in gift preferences

Karl Halvor Teigen;Marina V. G. Olsen;Odd Egil Solås

93
Citations
How good is good luck? The role of counterfactual thinking in the perception of lucky and unlucky events

Karl Halvor Teigen

89
Citations
Verbal probabilities : A question of frame?

Karl Halvor Teigen;Wibecke Brun

87
Citations
Unlucky Victims or Lucky Survivors?: Spontaneous Counterfactual Thinking by Families Exposed to the Tsunami Disaster

Karl Halvor Teigen;Tine K. Jensen

87
Citations
When are low-probability events judged to be ‘probable’? Effects of outcome-set characteristics on verbal probability estimates

Karl Halvor Teigen

77
Citations
Decisions by coin toss: Inappropriate but fair.

Gideon Keren;Karl H. Teigen

74
Citations
Ambiguous probabilities: when doesp=0.3 reflect a possibility, and when does it express a doubt?

Karl Halvor Teigen;Wibecke Brun

71
Citations
Verbal Expressions of Uncertainty and Probability

Karl Halvor Teigen;Wibecke Brun

37
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Svein Magnussen University of Oslo

Monica Martinussen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Olivier Luminet Université Catholique de Louvain

Oddgeir Friborg University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Jarl Risberg Lund University

Paul Slovic University of Oregon

Kirsti M. J. Lagerspetz University of Turku

External Links

Personal website of Karl Halvor Teigen

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