• Long live the king! Beginnings loom larger than endings of past and recurrent events 

      Teigen, Karl Halvor; Böhm, Gisela; Bruckmüller, Susanne; Hegarty, Peter; Luminet, Olivier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06)
      Events are temporal “figures”, which can be defined as identifiable segments in time, bounded by beginnings and endings. But the functions and importance of these two boundaries differ. We argue that beginnings loom larger ...
    • When do past events require explanation? Insights from social psychology 

      Bruckmüller, Susanne; Hegarty, Peter; Teigen, Karl Halvor; Böhm, Gisela; Luminet, Olivier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Some past events incite more wonder about their causes than do others. For example, negative events require explanation more than positive events. We review social psychologists’ theoretical and empirical insights on what ...