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Species | Valerie F ReynaSummaryAffiliation: Cornell University Country: USA Publications
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Risk perception and communication in vaccination decisions: a fuzzy-trace theory approachValerie F Reyna
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Vaccine 30:3790-7. 2012..Anti-vaccination sources provide more coherent accounts of the gist of vaccination than official sources, filling a need to understand rare adverse outcomes...
Physician decision making and cardiac risk: effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk tolerance, and fuzzy processingValerie F Reyna
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 12:179-95. 2006..Consistent with fuzzy-trace theory, experts achieved better discrimination by processing less information and made sharper all-or-none distinctions among decision categories...
A theory of medical decision making and health: fuzzy trace theoryValerie F Reyna
Departments of Human Development and Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
Med Decis Making 28:850-65. 2008..Theory-based interventions that work (and why they work) are presented, ranging from specific techniques aimed at enhancing representation, retrieval, and processing to a comprehensive intervention that integrates these components...
How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision makingValerie F Reyna
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, B44 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Psychol Bull 135:943-73. 2009..To address this gap, we outline four theoretical approaches (psychophysical, computational, standard dual-process, and fuzzy trace theory), review their implications for numeracy, and point to avenues for future research...
Neurobiological and memory models of risky decision making in adolescents versus young adultsValerie F Reyna
Department of Human Development, Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 37:1125-42. 2011....
Is the apolipoprotein e genotype a biomarker for mild cognitive impairment? Findings from a nationally representative studyCharles J Brainerd
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Neuropsychology 25:679-89. 2011..We tested two contrasting explanations: (a) an ε4-AD specificity hypothesis, and (b) a measurement insensitivity hypothesis...
Explaining contradictory relations between risk perception and risk takingBritain Mills
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Psychol Sci 19:429-33. 2008..Results support a dual-processes interpretation of the relation between risk perception and risk taking according to which observed relations depend on whether the cues in questions trigger verbatim or gist processing...
