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Valerie F. Reyna publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Valerie F. Reyna sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 321 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Valerie F. Reyna D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Valerie F. Reyna sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Valerie F. Reyna is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on decision-making processes, intersecting several disciplines including cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, general decision sciences, and artificial intelligence.

Their work concentrates on topics such as decision-making and behavioral economics, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, misinformation and its impacts, neural and behavioral psychology studies, patient-provider communication in healthcare, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, and mental health research topics.

Valerie F. Reyna has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • UNC Libraries
  • Medical Decision Making
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Developmental Review

Their recent papers include:

  • "A scientific theory of gist communication and misinformation resistance, with implications for health, education, and policy" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Viruses, vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and improving risky decision-making." (2021), published in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • "Numeracy, gist, literal thinking and the value of nothing in decision making" (2023), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Supporting Health and Medical Decision Making: Findings and Insights from Fuzzy-Trace Theory" (2022), published in Medical Decision Making
  • "How representations of number and numeracy predict decision paradoxes: A fuzzy-trace theory approach" (2020), published in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Frequent co-authors in the body of their work include:

  • Sarah M. Edelson
  • David M. N. Garavito
  • David Broniatowski
  • Charles J. Brainerd
  • Aadya Singh

Valerie F. Reyna has been recognized by peers through membership and fellowships in notable organizations. These include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2015
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1998
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1995

Best Publications

  • Fuzzy-trace theory: An interim synthesis

    Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

  • Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy

    Valerie F. Reyna;Frank Farley

  • How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making.

    Valerie F. Reyna;Wendy L. Nelson;Paul K. Han;Nathan F. Dieckmann

  • The science of false memory

    Charles J. Brainerd;Valerie F. Reyna

  • Fuzzy-Trace Theory and False Memory

    C.J. Brainerd;V.F. Reyna

  • How People Make Decisions That Involve Risk A Dual-Processes Approach

    Valerie F. Reyna

  • A Theory of Medical Decision Making and Health: Fuzzy Trace Theory

    Valerie F. Reyna

  • Gist is the grist: Fuzzy-trace theory and the new intuitionism☆

    C.J Brainerd;V.F Reyna

  • Numeracy, Ratio Bias, and Denominator Neglect in Judgments of Risk and Probability.

    Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

  • Developmental Reversals in False Memory: A Review of Data and Theory

    C. J. Brainerd;V. F. Reyna;S. J. Ceci

  • Fuzzy-trace theory and framing effects in choice: Gist extraction, truncation, and conversion

    Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

  • Dual processes in decision making and developmental neuroscience: A fuzzy-trace model

    Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

  • Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions.

    Cornelia Betsch;Noel T. Brewer;Pauline Brocard;Patrick Davies

  • Beyond stereotypes of adolescent risk taking: Placing the adolescent brain in developmental context

    Daniel Romer;Valerie F. Reyna;Theodore D. Satterthwaite

  • Individual Differences in Numeracy and Cognitive Reflection, with Implications for Biases and Fallacies in Probability Judgment.

    Jordana M. Liberali;Valerie F. Reyna;Sarah Furlan;Lilian M. Stein

  • The importance of mathematics in health and human judgment: Numeracy, risk communication, and medical decision making

    Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

  • Fuzzy-trace Theory and Children's False Memories

    C.J. Brainerd;V.F. Reyna

  • Fuzzy-Trace Theory: Dual Processes in Memory, Reasoning, and Cognitive Neuroscience

    C J Brainerd;V F Reyna

  • Clinical implications of numeracy: theory and practice.

    Wendy Nelson;Valerie F. Reyna;Valerie F. Reyna;Angela Fagerlin;Isaac Lipkus

  • The Development of Forgetting and Reminiscence

    C J Brainerd;V F Reyna;M L Howe;J Kingma

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles J. Brainerd
Charles J. Brainerd Cornell University
Mark L. Howe
Mark L. Howe City, University of London
Holly G. Prigerson
Holly G. Prigerson Cornell University
Corinna E. Löckenhoff
Corinna E. Löckenhoff Cornell University
Ellen Peters
Ellen Peters University of Oregon
Stephen J. Ceci
Stephen J. Ceci Cornell University
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Glenn E. Smith
Glenn E. Smith University of Florida
Sandra B. Chapman
Sandra B. Chapman The University of Texas at Dallas

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