Valerie F Reyna

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Affiliation: Cornell University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Risk perception and communication in vaccination decisions: a fuzzy-trace theory approach
    Valerie F Reyna
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Vaccine 30:3790-7. 2012
  2. ncbi Physician decision making and cardiac risk: effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk tolerance, and fuzzy processing
    Valerie F Reyna
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    J Exp Psychol Appl 12:179-95. 2006
  3. ncbi A theory of medical decision making and health: fuzzy trace theory
    Valerie F Reyna
    Departments of Human Development and Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
    Med Decis Making 28:850-65. 2008
  4. ncbi How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making
    Valerie F Reyna
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, B44 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Psychol Bull 135:943-73. 2009
  5. ncbi Neurobiological and memory models of risky decision making in adolescents versus young adults
    Valerie 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
  6. ncbi Is the apolipoprotein e genotype a biomarker for mild cognitive impairment? Findings from a nationally representative study
    Charles J Brainerd
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Neuropsychology 25:679-89. 2011
  7. ncbi Explaining contradictory relations between risk perception and risk taking
    Britain Mills
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Psychol Sci 19:429-33. 2008

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Publications7

  1. ncbi Risk perception and communication in vaccination decisions: a fuzzy-trace theory approach
    Valerie 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...
  2. ncbi Physician decision making and cardiac risk: effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk tolerance, and fuzzy processing
    Valerie 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...
  3. ncbi A theory of medical decision making and health: fuzzy trace theory
    Valerie 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...
  4. ncbi How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making
    Valerie 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...
  5. ncbi Neurobiological and memory models of risky decision making in adolescents versus young adults
    Valerie 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
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  6. ncbi Is the apolipoprotein e genotype a biomarker for mild cognitive impairment? Findings from a nationally representative study
    Charles 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...
  7. ncbi Explaining contradictory relations between risk perception and risk taking
    Britain 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...