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News Articles:

• National Science Foundation (2008). Children's Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults' In Court Cases. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 21, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/03/080313124445.htm.

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Refereed Journal Articles:

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Howe, M. L. (2009). Trichotomous processes in early memory development, aging, and cognitive impairment: A Unified Theory. Psychological Review, 116, 783-832..

• Croom, K., Lewis, D., Marchell, T., Lesser, M.L., Reyna, V. F., Kubicki-Bedford, L., Feffer, M., & Staiano-Coico, L. (2009). Impact of an Online Alcohol Education Course on Behavior and Harm for Incoming First-Year College Students: Short-Term Evaluation of a Randomized Trial. Journal of American College Health, 57(4), 445-454. view abstract.

• Reyna, V.F., & Lloyd, F.J. (2009). Clinical gist and medical education. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(12):1332-1333.

• Wolfe, C. R. & Reyna, V. F. (2009). Semantic coherence and fallacies in estimating joint probabilities. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. DOI: 10.1002/bdm.650. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2008). Episodic over-distribution: A signature effect of recollection without familiarity. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 765-786. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Ceci, S. J. (2008). Developmental reversals in false memory: A review of data and theory. Psychological Bulletin, 134(3), 343- 382. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Ceci, S.J., & Holliday, R.E. (2008). Understanding developmental reversals in false memory: Reply to Ghetti (2008) and Howe (2008). Psychological Bulletin, 134(5), 773-777. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Stein, L. M., Silveira, R. A., Rohenkohl, G., & Reyna, V. F (2008). How does negative emotion cause false memories?. Psychological Science, 19, 919-925. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C.J., Yang, Y., Reyna, V.F., Howe, M.L., & Mills, B.A. (2008). Semantic processing in "associative" false memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(6), 1035-1053. view abstract.

• Holliday, R. E., Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2008). Recall of details never experienced: Effects of age, repetition, and semantic cues. Cognitive Development, 23, 67-78. view abstract.

• Mills, B., Reyna, V.F., & Estrada, S (2008). Explaining Contradictory Relations Between Risk Perception and Risk Taking. Psychological Science, 19, 429-33. view abstract.

• Nelson, W., Reyna, V. F., Fagerlin, A., Lipkus, I., & Peters, E. (2008). Clinical Implications of Numeracy: Theory and Practice. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35(3), 261-274. view abstract.

• Nelson, W., Reyna, V. F., Fagerlin, A., Lipkus, I., Peters, E (2008). Clinical implications of numeracy: Theory and practice. Annuals of Behavioral Medicine, 35(3), 261-274. view abstract.

• Odegard, T. N., Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2008). Attention to global-gist processing eliminates age effects in false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99, 96-113. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (2008). Numeracy, ratio bias, and denominator neglect in judgments of risk and probability. Learning and Individual Differences, 18(1), 89-107. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Rivers, S. E. (2008). Current theories of risk and rational decision making. [Editorial] Developmental Review, 28(1), 1-11.

• Reyna, V.F. (2008). Theories of Medical Decision Making and Health: An Evidence-Based Approach. Medical Decision Making, 28(6), 829-833. view abstract.

• Reyna, V.F. (2008). A Theory of Medical Decision Making and Health: Fuzzy Trace Theory. Medical Decision Making, 28(6), 850-865. view abstract.

• Rivers, S. E., Reyna, V. F., & Mills, B. A. (2008). Risk taking under the influence: A fuzzy-trace theory of emotion in adolescence. Developmental Review, 28, 107-144. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2007). Explaining developmental reversals in false memory. Psychological Science, 18(5), 442-448. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (2007). The importance of mathematics in health and human judgment: Numeracy, risk communication, and medical decision making. Learning and Individual Differences, 17(2), 147-159. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Mills, B. A. (2007). Converging evidence supports fuzzy-trace theory?s nested sets hypothesis (but not the frequency hypothesis). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 278-280. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Forrest, T. J., Karibian, D., & Reyna, V. F. (2006). Development of the false-memory illusion. Developmental Psychology, 42, 962-979. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Estrada, S. (2006). Recollection rejection of false narrative statements. Memory, 14(6), 672-691. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Farley, F. (2006). Risk and rationality in adolescent decision-making: Implications for theory, practice, and public policy. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 7(1), 1-44.

• Reyna, V. F., & Lloyd, F. J. (2006). Physician decision-making and cardiac risk: Effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk tolerance, and fuzzy processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 179-195. view abstract.

• Adam, M. B., & Reyna, V. F. (2005). Coherence and correspondence criteria for rationality: Experts? estimation of risks of sexually transmitted infections. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 18(3), 169-186. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2004). Fuzzy-trace theory and memory development. Developmental Review, 24, 396-439. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Holliday, R. E., & Reyna, V. F. (2004). Behavioral measurement of remembering phenomenologies: So simple a child can do it. Child Development, 75, 505-522. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F. (2004). How people make decisions that involve risk: A dual process approach. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 60-66. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F. (2004). Language: The best acts of mind. PsycCRITIQUES. [Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, (1996), 41(6), 566-567.] Review.

• Brainerd, C. J., Payne, D. G., Wright, R., & Reyna, V. F. (2003). Phantom recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 445-467. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Wright, R., & Mojardin, A. H. (2003). Recollection rejection: False-memory editing in children and adults. Psychological Review, 110, 762-784. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Adam, M. B. (2003). Fuzzy-trace theory, risk communication, and product labeling in sexually transmitted diseases. Risk Analysis, 23, 325-342. view abstract.

• Wright, A. L., Schwindt, L., Bassford, T., Reyna, V. F., Shisslak, C. M., St. Germain, P. A., & Reed, K.L. (2003). Gender differences in academic advancement: Patterns, causes, and potential solutions in one U.S. college of medicine. Academic Medicine, 78, 500-508. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2002). Recollection rejection: How children edit their false memories. Developmental Psychology, 38, 156-172. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2002). Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 164-168. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Forrest, T. J. (2002). Are young children susceptible to the false-memory illusion?. Child Development, 73, 1363-1377. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Wright, R., Reyna, V. F., & Payne, D. G. (2002). Dual retrieval processes in free and associative recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 120-152. view abstract.

• Holliday, R. E., Reyna, V. F., & Hayes, B. K. (2002). Memory processes underlying misinformation effects in child witnesses. Developmental Review, 22, 37-77. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., Holliday, R. E., & Marche, T. (2002). Explaining the development of false memories. (Invited article on developmental forensics for a special issue) . Developmental Review, 22, 436-489. view abstract.

• Wolfe, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2002). Using net cloak to develop server-side web-based experiments without writing CGI programs. Behavior Research Methods Instruments and Computers, 34, 204-207. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2001). Fuzzy-trace theory: Dual processes in memory, reasoning, and cognitive neuroscience. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 28, 49-100.

• Brainerd, C. J., Wright, R., Reyna, V. F., & Mojardin, A.H. (2001). Conjoint recognition and phantom recollection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 341-361. view abstract.

• Lenert, L. A., Sherbourne, C. D., & Reyna, V. F. (2001). Utility elicitation using single item questions compared with a computerized interview. Medical Decision Making, 21, 97-104. view abstract.

• Lloyd, F. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2001). A web exercise in evidence-based medicine using cognitive theory. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(2), 94-99. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., & Hamilton, A. J. (2001). The importance of memory in informed consent for surgical risk. Medical Decision Making, 21, 152-155.

• Reyna, V. F., Lloyd, F., & Whalen, P. (2001). Genetic testing and medical decision making. Archives of Internal Medicine, 161, 2406-2408. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F. (2000b). Fuzzy-trace theory and source monitoring: An evaluation of theory and false memory data. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 163-175. view abstract.

• Reyna, V.F. (2000a). Data, development, and dual processes in rationality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 694-695. view abstract.

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Books:

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2005). The Science of False Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. view abstract.

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Book Chapters:

• Reyna, V.F., & Casillas, W. (2009). Development and Dual Processes in Moral Reasoning: A Fuzzy-trace Theory Approach. In Bartels, D. M., Bauman, C. W., Skitka, L. J., & Medin, D. L., Eds. Moral Judgment and Decision Making: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 50 ( pp. 207-236). San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press...

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2008). Developmental trends in spontaneous false memory, with implications for the law. In M. L. Howe, G. Goodman, & D. Cicchetti (Eds.), Stress, trauma, and children?s memory development: Neurobiological, cognitive, clinical, and legal perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Reyna, V. F., & Mills, B. A. (2007). Interference processes in fuzzy-trace theory: Aging, Alzheimer's disease, and development. In C. MacLeod & D. Gorfein (Eds.), Inhibition in cognition (pp. 185-210). Washington: APA Press..

• Reyna, V. F., Mills, B. A., Estrada, S. M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2006). False memory in children: Data, theory, and legal implications. In M. P. Toglia, J. D. Read, D. F. Ross, & R. C. L. Lindsay (Eds.), The handbook of eyewitness psychology: Memory for events (pp. 473-510). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

• Reyna, V. F. (2005). The no child left behind act and scientific research: A view from Washington, DC. In J. S. Carlson, & J. R. Levin (Eds.), The no child left behind legislation: Educational research and federal funding (pp. 1-25). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

• Reyna, V. F. (2005). Fuzzy-trace theory, judgment, and decision-making: A dual-processes approach. In C. Izawa & N. Ohta (Eds.), Human Learning and Memory: Advances in theory and application: The 4th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory (pp. 239-256). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

• Reyna, V. F. (2005). Federal policy and scientific research. In J. S. Carlson, & J. R. Levin (Eds.), The no child left behind legislation: Educational research and federal funding (pp. 135-150). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

• Reyna, V. F. (2005). The No Child Left Behind Act, scientific research and federal education policy: A view from Washington, D.C. In G. D. Phye, D. H. Robinson, & J. R. Levin (Eds.), Empirical methods for evaluating educational interventions (pp.29-52). New York: Elsevier Academic Press.

• Reyna, V. F., Adam, M. B., Poirier, K., LeCroy, C. W., & Brainerd, C. J. (2005). Risky decision-making in childhood and adolescence: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. In J. Jacobs & P. Klaczynski (Eds.), The development of children's and adolescents' judgment and decision-making (pp. 77-106) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

• Wolfe C. R., Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (2005). Fuzzy-trace theory: Implications for transfer in teaching and learning. In J. P. Mestre (Ed.), Transfer of learning from a modern multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 53-88). Greenwich,CT: Information Age Publishing. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F. (2004). Why scientific research? The importance of evidence in changing educational practice. In P. McCardle & V. Chhabra (Eds.), The voice of evidence: Bringing research to classroom educators [A festschrift for a scientific advisor to the President on research], (pp. 47-58). Baltimore,MD: Brookes Publishing. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., Lloyd, F. J., & Brainerd, C. J. (2003). Memory, development, and rationality: An integrative theory of judgment and decision-making. In S. Schneider & J. Shanteau (Eds.), Emerging perspectives on judgment and decision research (pp. 201-245). New York: Cambridge University Press. view abstract.

• Effken, J, Loeb, R., Johnson, K., Johnson, S., & Reyna, V. (2001). Using cognitive work analysis to design clinical display [Proceedings of MedInfo, 2001]. In V. L. Patel, R. Rogers, & R. Haux (Eds.), (pp. 27-31) London, IOS Press. view abstract.

• Lloyd, F. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2001). Clinical decision making and information management in the era of managed care. In R. C. Becker & J. S. Alpert (Eds.), Cardiovascular medicine: Practice and management (pp. 719-732). New York, NY:Arnold Publishing. view abstract.

• Reyna, V. F., Brainerd, C. J., Effken, J., Bootzin, R., & Lloyd, F. J. (2001). The psychology of human computer mismatches. In C. Wolfe (Ed.), Learning and teaching on the world wide web (pp. 23-44). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

• Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V. F., & Poole, D. A (2000). Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory: Memory theory in the courtroom. In D. F. Bjorklund (Ed.), False memory creation in children and adults (pp. 93-127). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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