My research focuses on the bases of judgment and unconscious cognition. 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. This research has recently been applied to explain mathematical intuition, the insight experience, and social cohesiveness.

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Primary Interests:

Attitudes and Beliefs
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation, Goal Setting
Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Attitudes and Beliefs
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation, Goal Setting

Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Translational Research in Mathematics and Science Education
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Journal Articles:

Bullot, N. J., & Reber, R. (in press). The Artful Mind Meets Art History: Toward a Psycho-Historical Framework for the Science of Art Appreciation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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., Lima, A., & Fosse, B. H. (2007). Effects of regulatory focus on endorsement of religious beliefs. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 48, 539–545.
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., & 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. (2004). Availability. In R. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions (pp. 147-163). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Courses Taught:

Cognition
Emotion and Motivation
Introduction to Social Psychology
Intuition
Skill Learning
Social Cognition
The Psychology of Memory
Unconscious Cognition

Cognition
Emotion and Motivation
Introduction to Social Psychology
Intuition
Skill Learning

Social Cognition
The Psychology of Memory
Unconscious Cognition

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Rolf Reber
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology
University of Bergen
Jonas Lies vei 91
N-5009 Bergen
Norway

Phone: ++47 55 58 31 81
Fax: ++47 55 58 98 79
Skype Name: rolfreber