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Edward T. Cokely is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, applied psychology, and social psychology.

Thematic concentrations in their work include climate change communication and perception, free will and agency, risk perception and management, behavioral health and interventions, human-automation interaction and safety, occupational health and safety research, and risk and safety analysis.

Frequent collaborators in their research are Adam Feltz, Rocío García-Retamero, Jinhyo Cho, Jinan N. Allan, and Dafina Petrova.

Recent publications by Edward T. Cokely cover a range of topics and venues:

  1. Measuring feelings about choices and risks: The Berlin Emotional Responses to Risk Instrument (BERRI), 2022, Risk Analysis
  2. Numeracy does not polarize climate change judgments: Numerate people are more knowledgeable and knowledge is power., 2023, Decision
  3. Parental Risk Literacy is Related to Quality of Life in Spanish Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  4. An Eye Tracking Based Framework for Safety Improvement of Offshore Operations, 2023, Journal of Eye Movement Research
  5. Risk Literacy Promotes Representative Understanding: Numerate People are Less Biased, More Knowledgeable, and More Concerned about Climate Change, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)

Edward T. Cokely's work is often published in venues such as PsycTESTS Dataset, Decision, Risk Analysis, Journal of Eye Movement Research, and Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Best Publications

  • The making of an expert.

    K. Anders Ericsson;Michael J. Prietula;Edward T. Cokely

  • Measuring risk literacy: The Berlin numeracy test

    Edward T. Cokely;Mirta Galesic;Eric Schulz;Saima Ghazal

  • Cognitive abilities and superior decision making under risk : A protocol analysis and process model evaluation

    Edward T. Cokely;Colleen M. Kelley

  • Communicating Health Risks With Visual Aids

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Edward T. Cokely

  • Designing Visual Aids That Promote Risk Literacy: A Systematic Review of Health Research and Evidence-Based Design Heuristics.

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Edward T Cokely

  • Effective communication of risks to young adults: using message framing and visual aids to increase condom use and STD screening.

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Edward T. Cokely

  • Predicting biases in very highly educated samples: Numeracy and metacognition

    Saima Ghazal;Edward T. Cokely;Rocio Garcia-Retamero

  • Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are? Personality differences in intuitions about compatibilism and incompatibilism.

    Adam Feltz;Edward T. Cokely

  • Individual Differences in Graph Literacy: Overcoming Denominator Neglect in Risk Comprehension

    Yasmina Okan;Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Edward T. Cokely;Antonio Maldonado

  • Persistent bias in expert judgments about free will and moral responsibility: a test of the expertise defense.

    Eric Schulz;Edward T. Cokely;Adam Feltz

  • Using Visual Aids to Improve Communication of Risks about Health: A Review

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Yasmina Okan;Edward T. Cokely

  • Sources of individual differences in working memory: contributions of strategy to capacity.

    Edward T. Cokely;Colleen M. Kelley;Amanda L. Gilchrist

  • Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry

    Edward T. Cokely;Adam Feltz

  • Understanding the harms and benefits of cancer screening: A model of factors that shape informed decision making

    Dafina Petrova;Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Edward T. Cokely;Edward T. Cokely;Edward T. Cokely

  • The fragmented folk : More evidence of stable individual differences in moral judgments and folk intuitions

    Adam Feltz;Edward T. Cokely

  • The Influence of Skills, Message Frame, and Visual Aids on Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Edward T. Cokely

  • Skilled decision theory: From intelligence to numeracy and expertise.

    Edward T. Cokely;Adam Feltz;Saima Ghazal;Jinan N. Allan

  • An Anomaly in Intentional Action Ascription: More Evidence of Folk Diversity

    Adam Feltz;Edward T. Cokely

  • Naturalistic Heuristics for Decision Making

    Niklas Keller;Edward T. Cokely;Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos;Odette Wegwarth

  • The Philosophical Personality Argument

    Adam Feltz;Edward T. Cokely

Frequent Co-Authors

Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Rocio Garcia-Retamero University of Granada
K. Anders Ericsson
K. Anders Ericsson Florida State University
Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Wändi Bruine de Bruin University of Southern California
Andrés Catena
Andrés Catena University of Granada
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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