Rolf Reber
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My research focuses on feelings in judgment and application of social psychology in education. More specifically, I am interested in how the feeling of perceptual fluency influences affective evaluations or cognitive judgments, such as judgments of truth or frequency estimates (together with Norbert Schwarz and Piotr Winkielman). This research has been applied to explain mathematical intuition and the insight experience (with Sascha Topolinski). The fluency theory has been modified within the newly developed psycho-historical framework for research on art appreciation (with Nicolas Bullot). In addition, we began exploring Example Choice as a way to increase student interest in mathematics and science teaching.
Finally, I wrote a book on critical feeling, an extension of critical thinking to feelings.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
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Books:
Journal Articles:
- Bullot, N. J., & Reber, R. (2013). The artful mind meets art history: Toward a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 123-137.
- Garcia-Marques, T., Silva, R. R., Reber, R., Unkelbach, C. (2015). Hearing a statement now and believing the opposite later. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 126-129.
- Høgheim, S. and Reber, R. (2015). Supporting interest of middle school students in mathematics through context personalization and example choice. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 42, 17-25.
- Oyserman, D., Sorensen, N., Reber, R., & Chen, S. X. (2009). Connecting and separating mindsets: Culture as situated cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 217-235.
- Reber, R. (2008). Art in its experience: Can empirical psychology help assess artistic value? Leonardo, 41, 367-372.
- Reber, R. Brun, M., & Mitterndorfer, K. (2008). The use of heuristics in intuitive mathematical judgment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1174-1178.
- Reber, R., Hetland, H., Chen, W., Norman, E., & Kobbeltvedt, T. (2009). Effects of example choice on interest, control, and learning. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 18, 509-548.
- Reber, R., & Schwarz, N. (1999). Effects of perceptual fluency on judgments of truth. Consciousness and Cognition, 8, 338-342.
- Reber, R., Schwarz, N., & Winkielman, P. (2004). Processing fluency and aesthetic pleasure: Is beauty in the perceiver's processing experience? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(4), 364-382.
- Reber, R., & Unkelbach, C. (2010). The epistemic status of processing fluency as source for judgments of truth. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 563-581.
- Reber, R., Winkielman, P., & Schwarz, N. (1998). Effects of perceptual fluency on affective judgments. Psychological Science, 9, 45-48.
- Topolinski, S., Erle, T. M., & Reber, R (2015). Necker's Smile: Immediate Affective Consequences of Early Perceptual Processes. Cognition, 140, 1-13.
- Topolinski, S., & Reber, R. (2010). Gaining insight into the "Aha" experience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 402-405.
- Topolinski, S., & Reber, R. (2010). Immediate truth - temporal contiguity between a cognitive problem and its solution determines experienced veracity of the solution. Cognition, 114, 117-122.
Other Publications:
- Reber, R. (2012). Critical Feeling: The strategic use of processing fluency. In C. Unkelbach & R. Greifeneder (Eds.), The experience of thinking (pp. 169-184). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
- Reber, R. (2012). Processing fluency, aesthetic pleasure, and culturally shared taste. In A. P. Shimamura & Palmer S. E. (Eds.), Aesthetic science: Connecting mind, brain, and experience (pp. 223-249). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Reber, R. (2004). Availability. In R. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions (pp. 147-163). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Courses Taught:
- Cognition
- Emotion and Motivation
- Introduction to General Psychology
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- Intuition
- Judgment and Decision Making and Social Cognition
- Skill Learning
- Social Cognition
- The Psychology of Memory
- Unconscious Cognition
Rolf Reber
Department Psychology
University of Oslo
Forskningveien 3A
N-0317 Oslo
Norway
- Work: +47 22 84 51 86
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