Rolf Reber

PROFESSOR

Interesse/spesialområde:

• My general area is cognitive psychology, with special interests phenomenal experience and judgments, rule learning, and e-learning.

Forskningsprosjekter:

• Processing fluency and judgments: We have found that processing fluency -- the ease with which people can process information -- influence a whole range of judgments, e.g., time and frequency estimates, liking, or judgments of truth. At the moment, we are looking at how processing fluency affects evaluations of one's own performance. This research has been done in collaboration with Norbert Schwarz at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Piotr Winkielman at the University of California at San Diego, Geoffrey Haddock at the University of Bristol, Alexander Rothman at the University of Minnesota, and Marie-Antoinette Ruch-Monchon, Mara Tiberini, Pascal Wurtz, Thomas Zimmermann and Natasha Zupanek at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

• Rule learning: After examining methodological problems in research into artificial grammar learning, we have done research on musical rule learning and liking, on modality effects in sequence learning, and on implicit versus explicit learning of binding rules in chemistry. This research has been done in collaboration with Pierre Perruchet at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France, Bernhard Sollberger and Christa Thomke at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Bjørn Sætrevik at the University of Bergen.
• - The most recent research project is an experimental evaluation of POSbase, a database of PowerPoint presentations of scientific studies. We shall examine how special features of POSbase, such as flexibility of access to information, affects retention and deep understanding. POSbase has been built in collaboration with Weiqin Chen, Birgitte Gudem, and Anne-Margarethe Stokke-Olsen at the University of Bergen.

Publikasjonsoversikt:

• Reber, R. (2005). Assessing motivational factors in educational technology: the case of building a web site as course assignment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 36, 93-95.
• Reber, R. (2004). Availability. In R. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions (pp. 147-163). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
• Reber, R., Zimmermann, T. D., & Wurtz, P. (2004). Judgments of duration, figure-ground contrast and size for words and nonwords. Perception and Psychophysics , 66, 1105-1114.
• Reber, R., Wurtz, P., & Zimmermann, T. D. (in press). Exploring "fringe" consciousness: The subjective experience of perceptual fluency and its objective bases. Consciousness and Cognition.
• Sollberger, B., & Reber, R., & Eckstein, D. (2003). Musical chords as affective priming context in a word-evaluation task. Music Perception, 20, 263-282.
• Reber, R., & Perruchet, P. (2003). The use of control groups in artificial grammar learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 56, 97-115.
• Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N., Fazendeiro, T. A., & Reber, R. (2003). The hedonic marking of processing fluency: Implications for evaluative judgment. In J. Musch & K. C. Klauer (Eds.), The psychology of evaluation: Affective processes in cognition and emotion (189-217). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Reber, R., & Zupanek, N. (2002). Effects of processing fluency on estimates of probability and frequency. In P. Sedlmeier & T. Betsch (Eds.), Frequency processing and cognition (pp. 175-188). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Reber, R., & Flammer, A. (2002). The development of gender differences in affective expression and in the relationship between mood and achievement-related self-judgments. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 377-392.
• Reber, R., & Perrig, W. J. (2001). Perception without awareness, psychology of. In P.B. Baltes, N.J Smelser, The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 16 (pp. 11'215-11'218). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Haddock, G., Rothman, A. J., Reber, R., & Schwarz, N. (1999). Forming judgments of attitude certainty, intensity, and importance: The role of subjective experiences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 771-782.
• 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.