Rolf Reber
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Psychology
Department of Education
Digital Learning Communities
Homepage: http://h.uib.no/examplewiki/en/index.php/Rolf_Reber
Title: Adjunct Professor
Phone: +47 55 58 31 81
E-mail: Rolf.Reber@psysp.uib.no
Visiting address: Christiesgate 13
Room number: 421
My general area is cognitive and educational psychology, with special interests in (1) interventions to increase interest in mathematics and science education, (2) science of art, and (3) phenomenal experience and judgments.
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.
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.
(Winner of the Escop Early Career Publication Award to Sascha Topolinksi; ESCOP = European Society for Cognitive Psychology)
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.
(Selected as one of 200 articles featured as Research Briefs in the “Relating Research to Practice” joint project by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the University of Washington, and King’s College, London)
Reber, R. Brun, M., & Mitterndorfer, K. (2008). The use of heuristics in intuitive mathematical judgment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1174-1178.
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, 364–382.
Reber, R., & Schwarz, N. (1999). Effects of perceptual fluency on judgments of truth. Consciousness and Cognition, 8, 338–342.
Reber, R., Winkielman, P., & Schwarz, N. (1998). Effects of perceptual fluency on affective judgments. Psychological Science, 9, 45–48.
Two Ways to Increase Student Interest for Mathematics and Science in Education, funded by NFR, program Utdanning2020