• News Articles

• Refereed Journal Articles

• Books

• Book Chapters

• Selected Lectures/Videos

News Articles:

• Baildon, K. (2019). 5 Questions with Valerie Reyna, Department for Human Development Professor and Extension Leader. CCE News. Retrieved from http://cce.cornell.edu/newsarticles/31247
• Cornell University (2018, September 5). Does neuroscience hold the key to understanding the criminal mind?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180905140235.htm
• Damour, L. (2017). Teenagers do dumb things, but there are ways to limit recklessness. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/well/family/teenagers-do-dumb-things-but-there-are-ways-to-limit-recklessness.html.
• Rozansky, M. (2017). Why teens take risks: It’s not a deficit in brain development. Retrieved from https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/why-teens-take-risks-its-not-a-deficit-in-brain-development/   
• Damour, L (2017). Teenagers do dumb things, but there are ways to limit recklessness. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/well/family/teenagers-do-dumb-things-but-there-are-ways-to-limit-recklessness.html.

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2019). Fuzzy-trace theory, false memory, and the law. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732218797143

• Derry, H. M., Maciejewski, P. K., Epstein, A. S., Shah, M. A., LeBlanc, T. W., Reyna, V. F., & Prigerson, H. G. (2019). Associations between anxiety, poor prognosis, and accurate understanding of scan results among advanced cancer patients. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 22(8). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2018.0624

• McCormick, M., Reyna, V. F., Ball, K., Katz, J., & Deshpande, G. (2019). Neural underpinnings of financial decision bias in older adults: Putative theoretical models and a way to reconcile them. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 184. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00184

• Reyna, V. F. (2018). Neurobiological models of risky decision-making and adolescent substance useCurrent Addiction Reports. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s40429-018-0193-z
• Reyna, V. F. (2018). When irrational biases are smart: A fuzzy-trace theory of complex decision making. Journal of Intelligence, 6(2), 29. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence6020029
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2018). Complementarity in false memory illusions Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(3), 305-327. doi: 10.1037/xge0000381
• Broniatowski, D. A., Klein, E. Y., May, L., Martinez, E. M., Ware, C., & Reyna, V. F. (2018). Patients’ and clinicians’ perceptions of antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory infections in the acute care setting Medical Decision Making, 38(5), 547-561. doi: 10.1177/0272989X18770664

• Helm, R. K., Reyna, V. F., Franz, A. A., & Novick, R. Z. (2018). Too young to plead? Risk, rationality, and plea bargaining’s innocence problem in adolescents Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24(2), 180-191. doi: 10.1037/law0000156

• Helm, R. K., Reyna, V. F., Franz, A. A., Novick, R. Z., Dincin, S., & Cort, A. E. (2018). Limitations on the ability to negotiate justice: Attorney perspectives on guilt, innocence, and legal advice in the current plea system. Psychology, Crime and Law. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2018.1457672
• Poldrack, R. A., Monahan, J., Imrey, P. B., Reyna, V. F., Raichle, M., Faigman, D., & Buckholtz, J. W. (2018). Predicting violent behavior: What can neuroscience add? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(2), 111-123. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.11.003
• Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., & Smith, R. J. (2018). On judgments of approximately equal. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(1), 151-163. doi: 10.1002/bdm.2061
• Reyna, V. F. & Wilhelms, E. A. (2017). The gist of delay of gratification: Understanding and predicting problem behaviors. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(2), 610-625. doi: 10.1002/bdm.1977
• Helm, R. K., Hans, V. P., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). Trial by numbers. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 27(1), 107-133.
• Klein, E. Y., Martinez, E. M., May, L., Saheed, M., Reyna, V. F., & Broniatowski, D. A. (2017). Categorical risk perception drives variability in antibiotic prescribing in the emergency department: A mixed methods observational study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 32(10), 1083-1089. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4099-6
• Lockenhoff, C. E., Rutt, J. L., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., O’Donoghue, T., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). Preferences for temporal sequences of real outcomes differ across domains but do not vary by age. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx094
• Rahimi-Golkhandan, S., Garavito, D. M. N., Reyna-Brainerd, B. B., and Reyna, V. F. (2017). A fuzzy trace theory of risk and time preferences in decision making: Integrating cognition and motivation. In J.R. Stevens  (Ed.), Impulsivity: How risk and time influence decision making (pp. 115-144). New York: Springer.
• Brainerd, C. J., Nakamura, K., Reyna, V. F., & Holliday, R. E. (2017). Overdistribution illusions: Categorical judgments produce them, confidence ratings reduce them. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(1), 20-40. doi: 10.1037/xge0000242.
• Broniatowski, D. A., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). A formal model of fuzzy-trace theory: Variations on framing effects and the Allais Paradox. Decision, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/dec0000083.
• Brust-Renck, P. G., Nolte, J., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). Numeracy in health and risk messaging. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/978019028613.013.354.
• Brust-Renck, P. G., Reyna, V. F., Wilhelms, E. A., Wolfe, C. R., Widmer, C. L., Cedillos-Whynott, E. M., & Morant, A. K. (2017). Active engagement in a web-based tutorial to prevent obesity grounded in fuzzy-trace theory predicts higher knowledge and gist comprehension. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1386-1398. doi: 10.3758/s13428-01600794-1.
• Helm, R. K., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). Logical but incompetent plea decisions: A new approach to plea bargaining grounded in cognitive theory. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/law0000125.
• Ishikawa, T., Jiang, A., Brussoni, M., Reyna, V. F., Weldon, R. B., Bruce, B., & Pike, I. (2017). Perceptions of injury risk associated with booster seats and seatbelts: The ejection stereotype hypothesis. Hypothesis, 15(1), e1. doi: 10.5779/hypothesis.v14i1.455.
• Romer, D., Reyna, V. F., & Satterthwaite, T. D. (2017). Beyond stereotypes of adolescent risk taking: Placing the adolescent brain in developmental context. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 (19-34). doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.07.007.
• Blalock, S. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2016). Using fuzzy-trace theory to understand and improve health judgments, decisions, and behaviors: A literature review. Health Psychology, 35(8), 781-792. doi: 10.1037/hea0000384.
• Blalock, S. J., DeVellis, F. R., Chewning, B., Sleath, B. L., & Reyna, V. F. (2016). Gist and verbatim communication concerning medication risks/benefits. Patient Education and Counseling, 99(6), 988-994. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2015.12.001.
• Furlan, S., Agnoli, F., & Reyna, V. F. (2016). Intuition and analytic processes in probabilistic reasoning: The role of time pressure.. Learning and Individual Differences, 45, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.11.006.
• Neumann, C., Kaye, D., Jackson, G., Reyna, V. F., & Ranadive, A. (2016). Presenting qualitative information on forensic science evidence in the court room. CHANCE, 29(1), 37-43. doi: 10.1080/09332480.2016.1156365.
• Reyna, V. F. & Wilhelms, E. A. (2016). The gist of delay of gratification: Understanding and predicting problem behaviors. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/bdm.1977.
• Reyna, V. F., Corbin, J. C., Weldon, R. B., & Brainerd, C. J. (2016). How fuzzy-trace theory predicts true and false memories for words, sentences, and narratives. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(1), 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.12.003.
• Romer, A. L., Reyna, V. F., Pardo, S. T. (2016). Are rash impulsive and reward sensitive traits distinguishable? A test in young adults.. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 308-312. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.027.
• Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., Widmer, C. L., Cedillos-Whynott, E. M., Brust-Renck, P. G., Weil, A. M., & Hu, X. (2016). Understanding genetic breast cancer risk: Processing loci of the BRCA Gist Intelligent Tutoring System. Learning and Individual Differences, 49, 178-189. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.06.009.
• Brainerd, C. J., Wang, Z., Reyna, V. F., & Nakamura, K. (2015). Episodic memory does not add up: Verbatim-gist superposition predicts violations of the additive law of probability. Journal of Memory and Language, 84, 224-245. doi: 10.1015/j.jml.2015.06.006.
• Broniatowski, D. A., Klein, E. Y., & Reyna, V. F. (2015). Germs are germs, and why not take a risk?: Patients' expectations for prescribing antibiotics in an inner city emergency department. Medical Decision Making, 35, 60-67. doi: 10.1177/0272989X14553472.
• Chick, C. F., Reyna, V. F., & Corbin, J. C. (2015). Framing effects are robust to linguistic disambiguation: A critical test of contemporary theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000158.
• Corbin, J. C., Reyna, V. F., Weldon, R. B., & Brainerd, C. J. (2015). How reasoning, judgment, and decision making are colored by gist-based intuition: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 344-355. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.09.001.
• Elstad, E. A., Sutkowi-Hemstreet, A., Vu, M., Sheridan, S. L., Harris, R., Reyna, V. F., … Brewer, N. T. (2015). Clinicians’ perceptions of the benefits and harms of prostate and colorectal cancer screening. Medical Decision Making, 35(4),467-476 . doi: 10.1177/0272989X15569780.
• Fraenkel, L., Lim, J., Tsao, G. G., Reyna, V. F., & Monto, A. (2015). Treat now or defer?: Examining Hepatitis C virus treatment preference heterogeneity using segmentation analysis. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Advance online publication.
• Fraenkel, L., Matzko, C. K., Webb, D. E., Oppermann, B., Charpentier, P., Peters, E., Reyna, V. F., & Newman, E. D. (2015). Use of decision support for improved knowledge, values clarification, and informed choice in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care and Research, 67(11), 1496-1502. doi: 10.1002/acr.22659.
• Landa, Y., Mueser, K., Wyka, K., Shreck, E., Jespersen, R., Jacobs, M., Griffin, K., van der Gaag, M., Reyna, V. F., Beck, A., Silbersweig, D., & Walkup, J. (2015). Development of a group and family-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for youth at risk for psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/eip.12204.
• Reyna, V. F., & Landa, Y. (2015). Multiple traces or fuzzy traces?: Converging evidence for applications of modern cognitive theory to psychotherapy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 39. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14000399.
• Reyna, V. F., Hans, V. P., Corbin, J. C., Yeh, R., Lin, K., & Royer, C. (2015). The gist of juries: Testing a model of damage award decision making. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21(3), 280-294. doi: 10.1037/law0000048.
• Reyna, V. F., Nelson, W. L., Han, P. K., & Pignone, M. P. (2015). Decision making and cancer. American Psychologist, 70(2), 105-118. doi: 10.1037/a0036834.
• Reyna, V. F., Weldon, R. B., & McCormick, M. J. (2015). Educating intuition: Reducing risky decisions using fuzzy-trace theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(4), 392-398. doi: 10.1177/0963721415588081.
• Reyna, V. F., Wilhelms, E. A., McCormick, M. J., & Weldon, R. B (2015). Development of risky decision making: Fuzzy-trace theory and neurobiological perspectives. Child Development Perspectives, 9(2), 122-127. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12117.
• Widmer, C. L., Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., Cedillos-Whynott, E. M., Brust-Renck, P. G., & Weil, A. M. (2015). Tutorial dialogues and gist explanations of genetic breast cancer risk. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 632-648. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0592-1.
• Brainerd, C. J., Holliday, R. E., Nakamura, K., & Reyna, V. F. (2014). Conjunction illusions and conjunction fallacies in episodic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(6), 1610-1623. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000017.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. B. (2014). Fuzzy universality of probability judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(48), 16984-16985. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1420118111.
• Reyna, V. F., & Mills, B. A. (2014). Theoretically motivated interventions for reducing sexual risk taking in adolescence: A randomized controlled experiment applying fuzzy-trace theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(4), 1627-1648. doi: 10.1037/a0036717.
• Reyna, V. F., Chick, C. F., Corbin, J. C., & Hsia, A. N. (2014). Developmental reversals in risky decision-making: Intelligence agents show larger decision biases than college students. Psychological Science, 25(1), 76-84. doi: 10.1177/0956797613497022.
• Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., Widmer, C. L., Cedillos, E. M., Fisher, C. R., Brust-Renck, P. G., & Weil, A. M. (2014). Efficacy of a web-based intelligent tutoring system for communicating genetic risk of breast cancer: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. Medical Decision Making. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0272989X14535983.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Gomes, C. F. A., Kenney, A. E., Gross, C. J., Taub, E. S., Spreng, R. N., & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2013). Dual-retrieval models and neurocognitive impairment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0034057.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Petersen, R. G., Smith, G. E., Kenney, A. E., Gross, C. J., Taub, E. S., Plassman, B. L., & Fisher, G. G. (2013). The apolipoprotein E genotype predicts longitudinal transitions to mild cognitive impairment but not to Alzheimer’s dementia: Findings from a nationally representative study. Neuropsychology, 27(1), 80-94.
• Brainerd, C. J., Wang, Z., & Reyna, V. F. (2013). Superposition of episodic memories: Overdistribution and quantum models. Topics in Cognitive Science, 5773-799. doi: 10.1111/tops.12039.
• Brust-Renck, P. G., Royer, C. E., & Reyna, V. F. (2013). Communicating numerical risk: Human factors that aid understanding in health care. Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 8(1), 235-276. doi: 10.1177/1557234X13492980.
• Fagerlin, A., Pignone, M., Abhyankar, P., Col, N., Feldman-Stewart, D., Gavaruzzi, T., Kryworuchko, J., Levin, C. A., Pieterse, A. H., Reyna, V. F., Stiggelbout, A., Scherer, L. D., Wills, C., & Witteman, H. O. (2013). Clarifying values: An updated review. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 13 (Suppl 2): S8.
• Fisher, C. R., Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., Widmer, C. L., Cedillos, E. M., & Brust-Renck, P. G. (2013). A signal detection analysis of gist-based discrimination of genetic breast cancer risk. Behavior Research Methods, 45(3), 613-622. doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0364-8.
• Marchell, T. C., Lewis, D. D., Croom, K., Lesser, M. L., Murphy, S. H., Reyna, V. F., Frank, J., & Staiano-Coico, L. (2013). The slope of change: An environmental management approach to reduce drinking on a day of celebration at a U.S. college. Journal of American College Health, 61(6), 324-334. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2013.788008.
• Reyna, V. F., Chaudhry, S., Brust-Renck, P. G., Wilhelms, E. A., & Royer, C. E. (2013). Risk taking. Oxford Bibliographies Online Psychology. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199828340-0007.
• Reyna, V. F., Croom, K., Staiano-Coico, L., Lesser, M. L., Lewis, D., Frank, J., & Marchell, T. (2013). Endorsement of a personal responsibility to adhere to the minimum drinking age law predicts consumption, risky behaviors, and alcohol-related harms. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 19(3), 380-394. doi: 10.1037/a0032538.
• Wilhelms, E. A. , & Reyna, V. F. (2013). Fuzzy trace theory and medical decisions by minors: Differences in reasoning between adolescents and adults. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,.
• Wilhelms, E. A., & Reyna, V. F. (2013). Effective Ways to Communicate Risk and Benefit. Virtual Mentor, 15(1), 34-41.
• Wolfe, C. R., Widmer, C. L., Reyna, V. F., Hu, X., Cedillos, E. M., Fisher, C. R., Brust-Renck, P. G., Williams, T. C., Damas, I., & Weil, A. M. (2013). The development and analysis of tutorial dialogues in AutoTutor Lite. Behavior Research Methods, 45(3), 623-636. doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0352-z.
• Betsch, C., Brewer, N. T., Brocard, P., Davies, P., Gaissmaier, W., Haase, N., Leask, J., Renkewitz, F., Renner, B., Reyna, V. F., Rossmann, C., Sachse, K., Schachinger, A., Siegrist, M., Stryk, M. (2012). Opportunities and challenges of web 2.0 for vaccination decisions. Vaccine, 30(25), 3727-3733. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.02.025 .
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2012). Reliability of children's testimony in the era of developmental reversals. Developmental Review, 32, 224-267. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2012.06.008.
• Brainerd, C. J., Aydin, C., Reyna, V. F. (2012). Development of dual-retrieval processes in recall: Learning, forgetting, and reminiscence.. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(4), 763-788. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.12.002.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Holliday, R. E., & Nakamura, K. (2012). Overdistribution in source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(2), 413-439. doi:10.1037/a0025645.
• Brewer, N. T., Richman, A. R., DeFrank, J. T., Reyna, V. F. & Carey, L. A (2012). Improving communication of breast cancer recurrence risk. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 133 553-561. doi:10.1007/s10549-011-1791-9.
• DeFrank, J., Richman, A., Carey, L., Reyna, V. F., & Brewer, N. T. (2012). Improving communication of genomic test results for breast cancer recurrence risk.[abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 43, S7.
• Fraenkel, L., Peters, E., Charpentier, P., Olson, B., Errante, L., Schoen, R., & Reyna, V.F. (2012). A decision tool to improve the quality of care in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Care & Research 64(7), 977-985. doi: 10.1002/acr.21657.
• Furlan S., Agnoli, F., & Reyna, V. F. (2012). Children's competence or adults' incompetence? Different developmental trajectories in different tasks. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0030509.
• Liberali, J. M., Reyna, V. F., Furlan, S., Stein, L. M., Pardo, S. T. (2012). Individual differences in numeracy and cognitive reflection, with implications for biases and fallacies in probability judgment.. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25, 361-381. doi:10.1002/bdm.752.
• Reyna, V. F. (2012). Risk perception and communication in vaccination decisions: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. Vaccine, 30, 3790-3797. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.11.070.
• Reyna, V. F. (2012). A new intuitionism: Meaning, memory, and development in fuzzy-trace theory [Presidential Address].. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(3), 332-359..
• Reyna, V. F. (2012). Book Review: Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods by A. Glöckner & C Witteman (Eds.). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25(2), 212. doi: 10.1002/bdm.733.
• Wolfe, C. R., Fisher, C. R., & Reyna, V. F. (2012). Semantic coherence and inconsistency in estimating conditional probabilities. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Advance online publication. doi:10.1002/bdm.1756.
• Wolfe, C. R., Fisher, C. R., Reyna, V. F., & Hu, X. (2012). Improving internal consistency in conditional probability estimation with an Intelligent Tutoring System and web-based tutorials. International Journal of Internet Science, 7, 38-54.
• Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., & Zember, E. (2011). Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion. Memory & Cognition, 39, 365-380. doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0043-2.
• Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Petersen, R.C., Smith, G.E. & Taub, E.S. (2011). Is the Apolipoprotein E genotype a biomarker for mild cognitive impairment? Findings from a nationally representative study. Neuropsychology, 25(6), 679-689. doi:10.1037/a0024483.
• Hans, V.P. & Reyna, V.F. (2011). To dollars from sense: Qualitative to quantitative translation in jury damage awards.. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 8(S1) 120-147. doi:10.1111/j.1740-1461.2011.01233.x.
• Hans, V.P., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). To dollars from sense: Qualitative to quantitative translation in jury damage awards. Cornell legal studies research paper No. 11-25. Retrieved July 12, 2011 from SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=1876667.
• Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). Developmental reversals in false memory: Now you see them, now you don't!. Developmental Psychology, 47(2), 442-449. doi:10.1037/a0021058 .
• Reyna, V. F. (2011). The paradoxes of Maurice Allais in economics and psychology. Medical Decision Making, 31, 221-222. doi:10.1177/0272989X11399338.
• Reyna, V.F., Brainerd, C.J. (2011). Dual processes in decision making and developmental neuroscience: A fuzzy-trace model. Developmental Review, 31, 180-206. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2011.07.004 .
• Reyna, V.F., Estrada, S.M., DeMarinis, J.A., Myers, R.M., Stanisz, J.M., Mills, B.A. (2011). Neurobiological and memory models of risky decision making in adolescents versus young adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(5), 1125-1142. doi:10.1037/a0023943.
• Brainerd, C. J. & Reyna, V.F. (2010). Recollective and Nonrecollective Recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 63(3), 425-445. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.05.002.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F., Aydin, C. (2010). Remembering in contradictory minds: Disjunction fallacies in episodic memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,36(3), 711-735. doi:10.1037/a0018995.
• Brainerd, C. J., Holliday, R. E., Reyna, V. F., Yang, Y., & Toglia, M. P. (2010). Developmental reversals in false memory: Effects of emotional valence and arousal.. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107(2), 137-154. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.04.013.
• Marche, T.A., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2010). Distinguishing True From False Memories in Forensic Contexts: Can Phenomenology Tell Us What is Real?. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24(8), 1168-1182. doi:10.1002/acp.1629 .
• Wolfe, C. R. & Reyna, V. F. (2010). Semantic coherence and fallacies in estimating joint probabilities. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23(2), 203-223. doi:10.1002/bdm.650.
• Wolfe, C.R., & Reyna, V. F. (2010). Assessing semantic coherence and logical fallacies in joint probability estimates.. Behavior Research Methods, 42(2), 366-372. doi:10.3758/BRM.42.2.373.
• 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. doi:10.1037/a0016963.
• 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. doi:10.3200/JACH.57.4.445-454.
• Lloyd, F. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2009). Clinical gist and medical education: Connecting the dots. . The Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(12):1332-1333. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1383.
• Odegard, T. N., Cooper, C. M., Lampinen, J. M., Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (2009). Children’s eyewitness memory for multiple real-life events.. Child Development, 80(6), 1877-1890. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01373.x.
• Reyna, V. F., Nelson, W., Han, P., & Dieckmann, N. F. (2009). How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making.. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 943-973. doi:10.1037/a0017327.
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2007.08.006.
• 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. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.134.3.343.
• 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. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.134.3.343.
• 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. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02177.x.
• 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. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.6.1035.
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.05.002.
• Mills, B., Reyna, V.F., & Estrada, S (2008). Explaining Contradictory Relations Between Risk Perception and Risk Taking. Psychological Science, 19, 429-33. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02104.x .
• 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. doi:10.1007/s12160-008-9037-8.
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.007.
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2007.03.011.
• Reyna, V. F., & Rivers, S. E. (2008). Current theories of risk and rational decision making. [Editorial] Developmental Review, 28(1), 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2008.01.002.
• Reyna, V.F. (2008). A Theory of Medical Decision Making and Health: Fuzzy Trace Theory. Medical Decision Making, 28(6), 850-865. doi:10.1177/0272989X08327066.
• Reyna, V.F. (2008). Theories of Medical Decision Making and Health: An Evidence-Based Approach. Medical Decision Making, 28(6), 829-833. doi:10.1177/0272989X08327069.
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2007.11.002.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2007). Explaining developmental reversals in false memory. Psychological Science, 18(5), 442-448. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01919.x .
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2007.03.010.
• 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. doi:10.1017/S0140525X07001872.
• Brainerd, C. J., Forrest, T. J., Karibian, D., & Reyna, V. F. (2006). Development of the false-memory illusion. Developmental Psychology, 42, 962-979. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.42.5.962.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Estrada, S. (2006). Recollection rejection of false narrative statements. Memory, 14(6), 672-691. doi:10.1080/09658210600648449.
• 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. doi:10.1111/j.1529-1006.2006.00026.x.
• 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. doi:10.1037/1076-898X.12.3.179.
• 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. doi:10.1002/bdm.493.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2004). Fuzzy-trace theory and memory development. Developmental Review, 24, 396-439. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2004.08.005.
• 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. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00689.x.
• Reyna, V. F. (2004). How people make decisions that involve risk: A dual process approach. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 60-66. doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00275.x.
• 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. doi:10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00501-6.
• 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. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.110.4.762.
• Reyna, V. F., & Adam, M. B. (2003). Fuzzy-trace theory, risk communication, and product labeling in sexually transmitted diseases. Risk Analysis, 23, 325-342. doi:10.1111/1539-6924.00332.
• 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.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2002). Recollection rejection: How children edit their false memories. Developmental Psychology, 38, 156-172. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.38.1.156.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2002).  Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory - reprint. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 164-168. doi:10.1111/1467-8721.00192.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Forrest, T. J. (2002). Are young children susceptible to the false-memory illusion?. Child Development, 73, 1363-1377. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00477.
• 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. doi:10.1006/jmla.2001.2796.
• Holliday, R. E., Reyna, V. F., & Hayes, B. K. (2002). Memory processes underlying misinformation effects in child witnesses. Developmental Review, 22, 37-77. doi: 10.1006/drev.2001.0534.
• 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. doi:10.1016/S0273-2297(02)00003-5.
• 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. doi:10.3758/BF03195444.
• 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. doi:10.1016/S0065-2407(02)80062-3.
• 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. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.27.2.307.
• 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. doi:10.1177/0272989X0102100202.
• 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. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2001.00214.x.
• Reyna, V. F., & Hamilton, A. J. (2001). The importance of memory in informed consent for surgical risk. Medical Decision Making, 21, 152-155. doi:10.1177/0272989X0102100209.
• Reyna, V. F., Lloyd, F., & Whalen, P. (2001). Genetic testing and medical decision making. Archives of Internal Medicine, 161(20), 2406-2408. doi:10.1001/archinte.161.20.2406.
• 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. doi:10.1016/S1041-6080(01)00034-6.
• Reyna, V.F. (2000a). Data, development, and dual processes in rationality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 694-695.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Mojardin, A. H. (1999). Conjoint Recognition. Psychological Review, 106(1), 160-179. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.106.1.160.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1998). When things that were never experienced are easier to “remember” than things that were. Psychological Science, 9, 484-489. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00089.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1998). Fuzzy-trace theory and children's false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 71, 81-129. doi:10.1006/jecp.1998.2464.
• Brainerd, C. J., Stein, L., & Reyna, V. F. (1998). On the development of conscious and unconscious memory. Developmental Psychology, 34, 342-357. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.34.2.342.
• Lloyd, F. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1998). Physicians’ decisions and agency for health care policy and research guidelines predict medical outcomes for patients with chest pain [abstract]. Medical Decision Making, 18, 489.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1998). Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory: New frontiers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 71, 194-209. doi:10.1006/jecp.1998.2472.
• Lloyd, F. J., Reyna, V. F., Liebowitz, R., & Valenzuela, T. (1997). The AHCPR unstable angina algorithm in practice. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 277(12), 961. doi:10.1001/jama.1997.03540360029014.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1997). Fuzzy-trace theory applied to the theory and practice of law: Commentary on law’s memory by Paul C. Wohlmuth. Journal of Contemporary Issues, 8, 287-298.
• Reyna, V. F., & Lloyd, F. J. (1997). Theories of false memory in children and adults. Learning and Individual Differences, 9(2), 95-123. doi:10.1016/S1041-6080(97)90002-9.
• Reyna, V. F., Lloyd, F. J., & Woodard, R. (1997). Deviations from practice guidelines for unstable angina [abstract]. Medical Decision Making, 17, 538.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1996). Mere memory testing creates false memories in children. Developmental Psychology, 32, 467-478. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.32.3.467.
• Reyna, V. F. (1996). Conceptions of memory development, with implications for reasoning and decision making. Annual Review of Child Development, 12, 87-118.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1995). Autosuggestibility in memory development. Cognitive Psychology, 28, 65-101. doi:10.1006/cogp.1995.1003.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1995). Learning rate, learning opportunities and the development of forgetting. Developmental Psychology, 31, 251-262. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.31.2.251.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Brandse, E. (1995). Are children's false memories more persistent than their true memories?. Psychological Science, 6, 359-364. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1995.tb00526.x.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Kneer, R. (1995). False-recognition reversal: When is similarity distinctive?. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 157-185. doi:10.1006/jmla.1995.1008.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1995). Fuzzy-trace theory: An interim synthesis [The first issue of 1995 was devoted to this invited target article on a theory developed by my colleagues and me]. Learning and Individual Differences, 7, 1-75. doi:10.1016/1041-6080(95)90031-4.
• Reyna, V. F., & Kiernan, B. (1995). Children's memory and metaphorical interpretation. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10, 309-331.
• Reyna, V.F., Brainerd, C.J. (1995). Fuzzy-trace theory: Some foundational issues. Learning and Individual Differences, 7(2), 145-162. doi:10.1016/1041-6080(95)90028-4.
• Reyna, V. F., & Ellis, S. C. (1994). Fuzzy-trace theory and framing effects in children's risky decision making. Psychological Science, 5, 275-279. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00625.x.
• Reyna, V. F., & Kiernan, B. (1994). The development of gist versus verbatim memory in sentence recognition: Effects of lexical familiarity, semantic content, encoding instruction, and retention interval. Developmental Psychology, 30, 178-191. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.30.2.178.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V.F., Harnishfeger, K.K., & Howe, M.L (1993). Is retrievability grouping good for recall?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 122, 249-268. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.122.2.249.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1993). Memory independence and memory interference in cognitive development. Psychological Review, 100, 42-67. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.100.1.42.
• Brainerd, C. J., Olney, C. A., & Reyna, V. F. (1993). Optimization versus effortful processing in children's cognitive triage: Criticisms, reanalyzes, and new data. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 55, 353-373.
• Reyna, V. F. (1993). Theory and reality in psycholinguistics. Psychological Science, 4, 19-23. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00550.x.
• Smith, K. J., Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1993). The debate continues [Editorial]. Phi Delta Kappa, 74, 407-410.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1992). Explaining “memory-free” reasoning. Psychological Science, 3, 332-339. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1992.tb00042.x.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1992). The memory independence effect: What do the data show? What do the theories claim?. Developmental Review, 12, 164-186. doi:10.1016/0273-2297(92)90007-O.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Howe, M.L., & Kevershan, J. (1991). Fuzzy-trace theory and cognitive triage in memory development. Developmental Psychology, 27, 351-369. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.27.3.351.
• Reyna, V. F. (1991). Class inclusion, the conjunction fallacy, and other cognitive illusions. Developmental Review, 11, 317-336. doi:10.1016/0273-2297(91)90017-I.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1991). Fuzzy-trace theory and children’s acquisition of scientific and mathematical concepts. Learning and Individual Differences, 3, 27-60. doi:10.1016/1041-6080(91)90003-J.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C.J. (1991). Fuzzy-trace Theory and Framing Effects in Choice: Gist Extraction, Truncation, and Conversion . Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 4, 249-262. doi:10.1002/bdm.3960040403.
• Brainerd, C .J., Reyna, V. F., & Howe, M. L. (1990). Children’s cognitive triage: Optimal retrieval or effortful processing?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 49, 428-447. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(90)90068-J.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1990). Can age x learnability interactions explain the development of forgetting?. Developmental Psychology, 26, 194-203. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.26.2.194 .
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1990). Inclusion illusions: Fuzzy-trace theory and perceptual salience effects in cognitive development. Developmental Review, 10, 365-403. doi:10.1016/0273-2297(90)90020-5.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1990). Gist is the grist: Fuzzy-trace theory and the new intuitionism. Developmental Review, 10, 3-47. doi:10.1016/0273-2297(90)90003-M.
• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Howe, & M. L., Kevershan, J. (1990). The last shall be first: How memory strength affects children’s retrieval. Psychological Science, 1, 247-252. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1990.tb00208.x.
• Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Howe, M.L., & Kingma, J. (1990). The Development of Forgetting and Reminiscence. With Commentary by Robert E. Gutentag and a Reply by C.J. Brainerd. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 55(3-4, Serial No. 222). doi:10.2307/1166106.
• Perkins, W. S., & Reyna, V. F. (1990). The effects of expertise on preference and typicality in investment decision making. Advances in Consumer Research, 17, 1-6.
• Reyna, V. F. (1990). Decisions and revisions. Review of Decision making: Descriptive, normative, and prescriptive interactions. Contemporary Psychology, 35, 952-953.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1990). Fuzzy processing in transitivity development. Annals of Operations Research, 23, 37-63.
• Reyna, V. F., Brainerd, C. J., & Bjorklund, D.F. (1990). Editorial. Developmental Review, 10, 1-2. doi:10.1016/0273-2297(90)90002-L.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1989). Output-interference theory of dual task deficits in memory development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 47, 1-18. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(89)90056-8.
• Reyna, V. F. (1989). I think, therefore it is. Review of experience, memory, and reasoning. Contemporary Psychology, 34, 917-918.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1989). Output interference, generic resources, and cognitive development. Journal Experimental Child Psychology, 47, 42-46. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(89)90061-1.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1988). Memory loci of suggestibility development. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 197-200. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.117.2.197.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1988). Generic resources, reconstructive processing, and children’s mental arithmetic. Developmental Psychology, 24, 324-334. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.24.3.324.
• Reyna, V. F. (1988). Review of Piaget’s construction of the child’s reality. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 62(3), 334.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1988). Piaget under scrutiny. Review of Piaget’s construction of the child’s reality. Science, 241, 733.
• Reyna, V.F. (1986). Metaphor and associated phenomena: Specifying the boundaries of psychological inquiry. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 1, 271-290.
• Reyna, V.F. (1984). To have and have not: Children's metaphor in the resolution of semantic inconsistency. Western Humor and Irony Membership Serial Yearbook, 2, 211-212.
• Reyna, V.F. (1982). The animated word: Modification of meaning by context [University Microfilms number 82-03153]. Dissertation Abstracts International, 42, 3852B.
• Reyna, V.F. (1981). The language of possibility and probability: Effects of negation on meaning. Memory and Cognition, 9,642-650.
• Reyna, V.F. (1980). Review. Statistics for linguistics. International Journal of American Linguistics, 46, 150-151.
• Reyna, V.F. (1978). The semantics of modal adjectives: The effects of context and negation on meaning. CUNY Forum, Papers in Linguistics, 6, 158-167 .

Books:

• Wilhelms, E. A., & Reyna, V. F. (Eds.). (2015). Neuroeconomics, judgment, and decision making. New York: Psychology Press.
• Reyna, V. F., & Zayas, V. (2014). The neuroscience of risky decision making. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S.B., Dougherty, M., & Confrey, J. (2012). The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning and decision making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F (2005). The Science of False Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Howe, M.L., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (1992). Development of Long-Term Retention. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Book Chapters:

• Nolte, J., Garavito, D., & Reyna, V. F. (2019). Decision making. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Funke (Eds.), Introduction to the psychology of human thought (pp.177-198). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.

• Helm, R. K., McCormick, M., & Reyna, V. F. (2018). Expert decision-making: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective. In L. J. Ball & V. A. Thompson (Eds.), The International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 289-303). New York, NY: Routledge.

• Meschkow, A. M., Nolte, J., Garavito, D. M. N., Helm, R. K., Weldon, R. B., & Reyna, V. F. (2018). Risk-taking. In M. E. Arterberry, M. H. Bornstein, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 1861-1865). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

• Reyna, V. F., Rahimi-Golkhandan, S., Garavito, D. M., & Helm, R. K. (2017). The fuzzy-trace dual-process model. In W. De Neys (Ed.), Dual Process Theory 2.0 (pp.82-99). London: Taylor & Francis.

• Garavito, D. M. N., Weldon, R. B., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). Fuzzy-trace theory: Judgments, decisions, and neuro-economics. In A. Lewis (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behavior (pp. 1-10). Cambridge University Press.
• Broniatowski, D. A., & Reyna, V. F. (2016). Process Modeling of Qualitative Decision Under Uncertainty. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1667-1672). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Chick, C. F., Pardo, S. T., Reyna, V. F., & Goldman, D. G. (2017). Decision Making (Individuals). In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (pp. 1-10). Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.06393-8 .
• Weldon, R. B., Corbin, J. C., Garavito, D. M. N., & Reyna, V. F. (2017). The gist is sophisticated yet simple: Fuzzy-trace theory’s developmental approach to individual differences in judgment and decision making. In M. Toplak & J. Weller (Eds.), Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision Making from a Developmental Context (pp. 67-84). New York, NY: Routledge..
• Brust-Renck, P. G., Reyna, V. F., Wilhelms, E. A., & Lazar, A. N. (2016). A fuzzy-trace theory of judgment and decision making in healthcare: Explanation, prediction, and application. In M. A. Diefenbach, S. M. Miller, & D. J. Bowen (Eds.), Handbook of health and decision science. New York: Springer..
• Ferrer, R., Klein, W., Lerner, J. S., Reyna, V. F., & Keltner, D. (2016). ). Emotions and health decision-making: Extending the Appraisal Tendency Framework to improve health and healthcare. In C. Roberto & I. Kawachi (Eds.), Behavioral economics and public health (pp.101-132). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. .
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2015). Memory and knowledge in theories of episodic memory. In C. Roberto & I. Kawachi (Eds.), Behavioral economics and public health (pp.101-132). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Broniatowski, D. A., & Reyna, V. F. (2015). Formalizing risky choice with a logistic model of Fuzzy Trace Theory. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 291-296). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Corbin, J. C., Liberali, J. F. M., Reyna, V. F., & Brust-Renck, P. G. (2015). Intuition, interference, inhibition, and individual differences in Fuzzy Trace Theory. In E. A. Wilhelms & V. F. Reyna (Eds.), Neuroeconomics, judgment, and decision making (pp. 77-90). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Wilhelms, E. A. & Reyna, V. F. (2015). Introduction: Neuroeconomics, judgment and decision making. In E. A. Wilhelms & V. F. Reyna (Eds.), Neuroeconomics, Judgment, and Decision Making (pp. xiii-xviii). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Wilhelms, E. A., Helm, R. K., Setton, R. A., & Reyna, V. F. (2015). Fuzzy trace theory explains paradoxical dissociations in affective forecasting. In E.A. Wilhelms & V. F. Reyna (Eds.), Neuroeconomics, Judgment, and Decision Making (pp. 49-73). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Brust-Renck, P. G., Reyna, V. F., Corbin, J. C., Royer, C. E., & Weldon, R. B. (2014). The role of numeracy in risk communication.. In H. Cho, T. Reimer, & K. A. McComas (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of risk communication (pp. 134-145). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Reyna, V. F., & Huettel, S. A. (2014). Reward, representation, and impulsivity: A theoretical framework for the neuroscience of risky decision making. In V. F. Reyna & V. Zayas (Eds.), The neuroscience of risky decision making (pp. 11-42). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Reyna, V. F., & Zayas, V. (2014). Introduction to the neuroscience of risky decision making. In V. F. Reyna & V. Zayas (Eds.), The neuroscience of risky decision making (pp. 3-8). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association..
• Reyna, V. R., & Brust-Renck, P. G. (2014). A review of theories of numeracy: Psychological mechanisms and implications for medical decision making. In Anderson, B. L., & Schulkin, J. Numerical reasoning in judgments and decision making about health (pp. 215-251). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2013). Dual processes in memory development: Fuzzy-trace theory. In P. J. Bauer & R. Fivush (Eds.), The Wiley handbook on the development of children's memory (pp. 480-512). New York: Wiley & Sons..
• Corbin, J.C., Wilhelms, E.A., Reyna, V.F., & Brainerd, C.J. (2013). Theory and Processes in Memory Development: Childhood to Adolescence. In R. Holliday & T. Marche (Eds.), Child Forensic Psychology (pp. 65-94). Basingstroke, UK: Palgrave Macmillin.
• Reyna, V. F. (2013). Intuition, reasoning, and development: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. In P. Barrouillet & C. Gauffroy (Eds.), The Development of Thinking and Reasoning (pp.193-220). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
• Weldon, R. B., Corbin, J. C., & Reyna, V. F. (2013). Gist processing in judgment and decision making: Developmental reversals predicted by fuzzy-trace theory. In H. Markovits (Ed.), The Developmental Psychology of Reasoning and Decision-Making (pp. 36-62). New York: Psychology Press.
• Brainerd, C.B., Reyna, V.F., & Holliday, R.E. (2012). Development of recollection: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective. In S. Ghetti & P.J. Bauer (Eds.), Origins and development of recollection (pp. 101-143). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Chick, C.F. & Reyna, V.F (2012). A fuzzy-trace theory of adolescent risk-taking: Beyond self-control and sensation seeking. In V.F. Reyna, S. Chapman, M. Dougherty, & J. Confrey (Eds.), The adolescent brain: leaning, reasoning, and decision making (pp.379-428). Washington DC: American Psycholgical Association.
• Holliday, R.E., Humphries, J.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.R. (2012). Interviewing vulnerable witnesses. In G. Davies & A. Beech, Forensic psychology: Crime, justice, law, interventions, 2nd Ed. (pp. 115-133). Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons.
• Reyna, V.F. (2012). Preface. In V.F. Reyna, S. Chapman, M. Dougherty, & J. Confrey (Eds.),The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning, and decision making (pp. xv-xviii). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Reyna, V.F. (2012). Across the lifespan. In Fischhoff, B., Brewer, N.T., Downs, J.S. (Eds.), Communicating risks and benefits: An evidence-based user's guide (pp. 111-119). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration. Retrieved from http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/RiskCommunication/defa….
• Reyna, V.F. & Dougherty, M. (2012). Epilogue: Paradoxes of the adolescent brain in cognition, emotion, and rationality.. In V.F. Reyna, S. Chapman, M. Dougherty, & J. Confrey (Eds.), The adolescent brain: Leaning, reasoning, and decision making (pp.431-435). Washington DC: American Psycholgical Association.
• 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 (pp. 302-362). 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). 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). 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). 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., 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Reyna, V. F. (1998). Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory. In M. Intons-Peterson & D. Best (Eds.), Memory distortions and their prevention (pp. 15-27). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Reyna, V. F., & Titcomb, A. L. (1997). Constraints on the suggestibility of eyewitness testimony: A fuzzy-trace theory analysis. In D. G. Payne & F. G. Conrad (Eds.), A synthesis of basic and applied approaches to human memory (pp. 157-174). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Reyna, V. F. (1996). Meaning, memory and the interpretation of metaphors. In J. Mio & A. Katz (Eds.), Metaphor: Implications and applications (pp. 39-57). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Reyna,V. F. (1995). Interference effects in memory and reasoning: A fuzzy-trace theory analysis. In F. N. Dempster & C. J. Brainerd (Eds.), Interference and inhibition in cognition (pp. 29-59). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
• Titcomb, A. L., & Reyna, V. F. (1995). Memory interference and misinformation effects. In F. N. Dempster & C. J. Brainerd (Eds.), Interference and inhibition in cognition (pp. 263-294). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1994). The origins of probability judgment: A review of data and theories. In G. Wright & P. Ayton (Eds.), Subjective probability (pp.239-272). New York, NY: Wiley.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1993). Domains of fuzzy-trace theory. In M. L. Howe & R. Pasnak (Eds.), Emerging themes in cognitive development: Theoretical foundation Vol. 1. (pp. 50-93). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C.J. (1993). Fuzzy memory and mathematics in the classroom. In G. M. Davies & R. H. Logie (Eds.), Memory in everyday life (pp. 91-119). Amsterdam: North Holland Press.
• Reyna, V. F. (1992). Reasoning, remembering, and their relationship: Social, cognitive, and developmental issues. In M. L. Howe, C. J. Brainerd, & V. F. Reyna (Eds.), Development of long-term retention (pp. 103-127). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
• Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1992). A fuzzy-trace theory of reasoning and remembering: Paradoxes, patterns, and parallelism. In A. Healy, S. Kosslyn, & R. Shiffrin (Eds.), From learning processes to cognitive processes: Essays in honor of William K. Estes (pp. 2:235-259). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1991). Acquisition and forgetting in normal and learning-disabled children: A disintegration-redintegration theory. In J. E. Obrzut & G. W. Hynd (Eds.), Neuropsychological foundations of learning disabilities (pp.147-178). New York: Academic Press.
• Reyna, V.F. (1987). Understanding verbs: Easy extension, hard comprehension. In A. Ellis (Ed.). Progress in the psychology of language (pp. 3:301-315). London: Erlbaum.
• Reyna, V.F. (1985). Shaping opinion: Pragmatics of topic and source. In F. Denmark (Ed.), Social/ecological psychology and the psychology of women. (pp.35-50) Amsterdam: North Holland.
• Reyna, V.F. (1985). Figure and fantasy in children's language. In M. Pressley., & C.J. Brainerd (Eds.), Cognitive learning and memory in children: Progress in cognitive development research. New York, NY:Springer-Verlag.

Selected Lectures/Videos:

• Newswise. (2020). COVID-19 Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Exploring the Unanswered Questions https://www.newswise.com/articles/covid-19-exploring-the-unanswered-questions-with-newswise-live-expert-panel
• Reyna, V. The Risks of E-Cigarettes to Adolescent Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH56vbisMKY&list=PLf6VUxhJp0JnGW60ShIuwwB9rYItxxfHj&index=70
• Reyna, V. (2019). Communicating the Gist: Misinformation, Memory, and Meaning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D-3UZMvHuU&t=3s
• Reyna, V. (2017). NAM Annual Meeting: Child Brain Development & Its Influence on Risky Decision-Making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqego3aDWY

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