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.
Recently, we began building ExampleWiki that implements the principle of Example Choice we developed for science teaching.
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.
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.
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
Rolf Reber Department of Biological and Medical Psychology
University of Bergen
Jonas Lies vei 91
N-5009 Bergen Norway