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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

  • Reyna, V.R. (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.

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