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Valerie Reyna

Professor

  • B44 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
  • Cornell University
  • Ithaca NY 14853-7601
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Interests

Research areas: Judgment and decision making; risk and rationality; false memory; aging and cognitive impairment; cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Reyna’s research focuses on dual processes in memory, judgment, and decision making, on how these processes change with age and expertise, and on their implications for risky decision making in law, health, and medicine. She is co-developer, with Charles Brainerd, of fuzzy-trace theory, a theory of memory and its relation to higher cognitive processes.

Perception, Cognition & Development
Behavioral & Evolutionary Neuroscience

Selected Publications

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  • Reyna, V.F., Nelson, W., Han, P., & Dieckmann, N.F. (2009). How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 943-973.

  • Lloyd, F.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2009). Clinical gist and medical education: Connecting the dots. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(12), 1332-1333.

  • Reyna, V.F., & Brainerd, C.J. (2008). Numeracy, ratio bias, and denominator neglect in judgments of risk and probability. Learning and Individual Differences, 18(1), 89-107.

  • Reyna, V.F., & Rivers, S.E. (2008). Current theories of risk and rational decision making. [Editorial] Developmental Review, 28(1), 1-11.

  • Rivers, S.E., Reyna, V.F., & Mills, B.A. (2008). Risk taking under the influence: A fuzzy-trace theory of emotion in adolescence. Developmental Review, 28, 107-144.

  • Reyna, V.F., & Farley, F. (2006). Risk and rationality in adolescent decision-making: Implications for theory, practice, and public policy. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 7(1), 1-44.

  • Reyna, V.F. (2004). How people make decisions that involve risk. A dual-processes approach. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 60-66.

  • Reyna, V.F., & Adam, M.B. (2003). Fuzzy-trace theory, risk cummunication, and product labeling in sexually transmitted diseases. Risk Analysis, 23, 325-342.

  • Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2001). Fuzzy-trace theory: Dual processes in memory, reasoning, and cognitive neuroscience. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 28, 49-100.

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