2026 Valerie F. Reyna: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	88	1029	903	641	550	321	31474

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

1728
Citations
Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy

Valerie F. Reyna;Frank Farley

1626
Citations
How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making.

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

1453
Citations
The science of false memory

Charles J. Brainerd;Valerie F. Reyna

1057
Citations
Fuzzy-Trace Theory and False Memory

C.J. Brainerd;V.F. Reyna

867
Citations
How People Make Decisions That Involve Risk A Dual-Processes Approach

Valerie F. Reyna

839
Citations
A Theory of Medical Decision Making and Health: Fuzzy Trace Theory

Valerie F. Reyna

776
Citations
Gist is the grist: Fuzzy-trace theory and the new intuitionism☆

C.J Brainerd;V.F Reyna

721
Citations
Numeracy, Ratio Bias, and Denominator Neglect in Judgments of Risk and Probability.

Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

641
Citations
Developmental Reversals in False Memory: A Review of Data and Theory

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

567
Citations
Fuzzy-trace theory and framing effects in choice: Gist extraction, truncation, and conversion

Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

522
Citations
Dual processes in decision making and developmental neuroscience: A fuzzy-trace model

Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

514
Citations
Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions.

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

450
Citations
Beyond stereotypes of adolescent risk taking: Placing the adolescent brain in developmental context

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

447
Citations
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

422
Citations
The importance of mathematics in health and human judgment: Numeracy, risk communication, and medical decision making

Valerie F. Reyna;Charles J. Brainerd

418
Citations
Fuzzy-trace Theory and Children's False Memories

C.J. Brainerd;V.F. Reyna

407
Citations
Fuzzy-Trace Theory: Dual Processes in Memory, Reasoning, and Cognitive Neuroscience

C J Brainerd;V F Reyna

384
Citations
Clinical implications of numeracy: theory and practice.

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

378
Citations
The Development of Forgetting and Reminiscence

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

375
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles J. Brainerd Cornell University

Mark L. Howe City, University of London

Holly G. Prigerson Cornell University

Corinna E. Löckenhoff Cornell University

Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin Duke University

Ellen Peters University of Oregon

Stephen J. Ceci Cornell University

John Monahan University of Virginia

Glenn E. Smith University of Florida

Sandra B. Chapman The University of Texas at Dallas

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