• Effects of Facial Symmetry and Gaze Direction on Perception of Social Attributes: A Study in Experimental Art History 

      Folgerø, Per Olav; Hodne, Lasse; Johansson, Christer; Andresen, Alf Edgar; Sætren, Lill Charlotte; Specht, Karsten; Skaar, Øystein Olav; Reber, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This article explores the possibility of testing hypotheses about art production in the past by collecting data in the present. We call this enterprise “experimental art history”. Why did medieval artists prefer to paint ...
    • The Epistemic Status of Processing Fluency as Source for Judgments of Truth 

      Reber, Rolf; Unkelbach, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-09-07)
      This article combines findings from cognitive psychology on the role of processing fluency in truth judgments with epistemological theory on justification of belief. We first review evidence that repeated exposure to a ...
    • The use of heuristics in intuitive mathematical judgment 

      Reber, Rolf; Brun, Morten; Mitterndorfer, Karoline (Journal article, 2008-07-16)
      Anecdotal evidence points to the use of beauty as an indication for truth in mathematical problem solving. Two experiments examined the use of heuristics and tested the assumption that participants use symmetry as a cue ...