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Rocio Garcia-Retamero

Rocio Garcia-Retamero

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
10820
World Ranking
5636
National Ranking
63

Overview

Rocio Garcia-Retamero is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

Their work covers several prominent topics such as autism spectrum disorder research, cardiac health and mental health, behavioral health and interventions, family and disability support research, cancer survivorship and care, climate change communication and perception, and chronic disease management strategies.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of Garcia-Retamero's research contributions:

  • Worry, Risk Perception, and Controllability Predict Intentions Toward COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychosocial markers of pre-hospital decision delay and psychological distress in acute coronary syndrome patients (2020), published in British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Physical Comorbidities and Depression in Recent and Long-Term Adult Cancer Survivors: NHANES 2007-2018 (2021), published in Cancers
  • Siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders: social support and family quality of life (2020), published in Quality of Life Research
  • Psychological and cognitive factors related to prehospital delay in acute coronary syndrome: A systematic review (2020), published in International Journal of Nursing Studies

Garcia-Retamero frequently publishes in venues such as DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)), Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Psycho-Oncology, and Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Notable frequent co-authors in their publication record include José M. Ordovás, Mariano Estéban, Beatriz González López-Valcárcel, Marco Inzitari, and Pedro Jordano.

Best Publications

  • Measuring risk literacy: The Berlin numeracy test

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

  • Prejudice against Women in Male-congenial Environments: Perceptions of Gender Role Congruity in Leadership

    Rocío García-Retamero;Esther López-Zafra

  • Using icon arrays to communicate medical risks : Overcoming low numeracy

    Mirta Galesic;Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Graph Literacy: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

    Mirta Galesic;Rocio Garcia-Retamero

  • 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

  • Who proficts from visual aids: Overcoming challenges in people's understanding of risks

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Mirta Galesic

  • Identity, Power, and Threat Perception A Cross-National Experimental Study

    David L. Rousseau;Rocio Garcia-Retamero

  • The relationship between transformational leadership and emotional intelligence from a gendered approach

    Esther Lopez-Zafra;Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Rocio Garcia-Retamero;M. Pilar Berrios Martos

  • Statistical numeracy for health : A cross-cultural comparison with probabilistic national samples

    Mirta Galesic;Rocio Garcia-Retamero

  • 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

  • Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Mirta Galesic;Gerd Gigerenzer

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

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

  • Take-the-best in expert-novice decision strategies for residential burglary

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Mandeep K. Dhami

  • Communicating Treatment Risk Reduction to People With Low Numeracy Skills: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Mirta Galesic

  • How to reduce the effect of framing on messages about health.

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Mirta Galesic

  • Visual representation of statistical information improves diagnostic inferences in doctors and their patients

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Ulrich Hoffrage

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

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

  • Cassandra’s regret: The psychology of not wanting to know.

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Rocio Garcia-Retamero

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

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

  • Doc, what would you do if you were me? On self-other discrepancies in medical decision making.

    Rocio Garcia-Retamero;Mirta Galesic

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward T. Cokely
Edward T. Cokely University of Oklahoma
Andrés Catena
Andrés Catena University of Granada
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Alice H. Eagly
Alice H. Eagly Northwestern University
Daniel G. Morrow
Daniel G. Morrow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joop van der Pligt
Joop van der Pligt University of Amsterdam
Jörg Rieskamp
Jörg Rieskamp University of Basel
Joseph Sharit
Joseph Sharit University of Miami
Gerd Bohner
Gerd Bohner Bielefeld University
María José Sánchez
María José Sánchez University of Granada

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