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Dr. Reyna's Lab Members Spring 2013
First row: Deanna Blansky, Oren Jaspan, Roshni Mehta, Jerry Shen, Suveera Dang, Jeanie Gribben, Julie Avrutine, Sharjeel Chaudhry
Second row: Jeremy Ojalehto, Gina Piersanti Gioe, Subah Nanda, Valerie Reyna (director), Noah Rubin, Rebekah Foster, Amrita Rao
Third row: Anna Zhu, Victoria Silverman, Rebecca Derven, Michael Mongelli, Julie Steinberg, Emily Lopes, Jennifer Kim
Fourth row:Priscila Brust-Renck (grad), Caisa Royer (grad), Alyssa Evans (grad), Ryan Yeh, Kelvin Lin, Hilary Yu, Zachary Nollet, Nicholas Raskin
Fifth row:Rebecca Weldon (post doc), Jonathan Corbin (grad), Nicole Meyer, Masrai Williams, Alexander Powell, Evan Wilhelms (laboratory leader), James MacDonald, Chris Caruso, Eric Jorgensen, Tyler Fugere
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Valerie Reyna, Director
Dr. Reyna is Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Cornell University, Co-director of the Cornell University Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility and a Co-director of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research. Dr. Reyna holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Rockefeller University. Her research encompasses human judgment and decision making, numeracy and quantitative reasoning, risk and uncertainty, medical decision making, social judgment, and false memory. She is a developer of fuzzy-trace theory, a model of the relation between mental representations and decision making that has been widely applied in law, medicine, and public health. Her recent work has focused on aging, neurocognitive impairment, and genetic risk factors (e.g., in Alzheimer's disease); rationality and risky decision making, particularly risk taking in adolescence; and neuroimaging models of framing and decision making. She has also extended fuzzy-trace theory to risk perception, numeracy, and dual processes in medical decision making by both physicians and patients.
Charles Brainerd, Collaborator
Dr. Brainerd holds B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in experimental and developmental psychology. He has published over 200 research articles and chapters, and he has also published over 20 books. His research covers areas such as human memory and decision-making, statistics and mathematical modeling, cognitive neuroscience, learning, intelligence, cognitive development, learning disability and child abuse. Dr. Brainerd's current research program centers on the relation between memory and higher reasoning abilities in children and adults, and it also focuses on false-memory phenomena. Together with Valerie Reyna, he is the co-developer of fuzzy-trace theory, a model of the relation between memory and higher reasoning that has been widely applied within medicine and law. He directs the Memory and Neuroscience Lab.
 Evan Wilhelms, Laboratory Leader Selected Publications 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, 38 (3). Selected Papers & Posters Presented Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Sui, W., Pardo, S.T. (2011, November). The gist of delay discounting: Neurobiology and representation. Paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. Wilhelms, E.A., Reyna, V.F., & Brust, P.G. (2011, November). A better way to assess financial risk and well-being: A reliable and externally valid spendthrift scale. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA. Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Reyna, V.F., Pardo, S.T., & Sui, W. (2011, October). Reward sensitivity, temporal discounting, gender and risky health behaviors: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Chicago, IL. (Lusted Finalist) Honors & Awards
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Selected Papers & Posters Presented Brust, P.G., Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Sui, W., & Corbin, J.C. (2011, November). The gist of choice: The role of numbers in decision making. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA. Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Sui, W., Pardo, S.T. (2011, November). The gist of delay discounting: Neurobiology and representation. Paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Reyna, V.F., Pardo, S.T., & Sui, W. (2011, October). Reward sensitivity, temporal discounting, gender and risky health behaviors: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Chicago, IL. (Lusted Finalist) Honors & Awards
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 Chrissie Chick Publications Chick, C. F. & Reyna, V. F. (2011). A fuzzy-trace theory of adolescent risk taking: Beyond self-control and sensation seeking. In Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S., Dougherty, M. & Confrey, J. (Eds.), The adolescent brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. Chick, C.F., Pardo, S., Reyna, V.F.& Goldman, D. (2010). Decision Making (Individuals). In Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 6th ed. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press. Papers & Posters Presented Reyna, V.F., Hsia, A., Chick, C.F., & Pardo, S.T. (2011, November). Professional risk takers are more susceptible to framing effects: Expertise and developmental reversals in fuzzy-trace theory. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA. Reyna, V. F., Chick, C. F., Lorsch, Z. S., Ganzel, B., Wassef, C. E., Hsia, A., Ojalehto, J. & Jaspan, O. N. (2011, May). Neural correlates of enhanced and attenuated framing effects: Testing predictions of fuzzy-trace theory. Poster presented at the 23rd annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. Reyna, V.F., Chick, C. F., Pardo, S., Liberali, J., & Furlan, S., Stein, L. (2010, November). Inhibition ability: A modulator in the normative-intuitive mismatch. Poster presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO. Honors & Awards
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 Jonathan Corbin Papers & Posters Presented Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Sui, W., Pardo, S.T., & Corbin, J.C. (2011, November). Delay discounting and reward sensitivity: A fuzzy trace theory approach. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA. Brust, P.G., Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Sui, W., & Corbin, J.C. (2011, November). The gist of choice: The role of numbers in decision making. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA.
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Caisa Royer
Undergraduate Lab Members
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Julie Avrutine '13 Chris Caruso '14 Sharjeel Chaundry '13 Suveera Dang '14 Rebecca Derven '15 Oren Jaspan '13 Eric Jorgensen '15 Rachel Lacks '14 |
Kelvin Lin '14 Roshni Mehta '15 Emily Lopes '13 Michael Mongelli '15 Anna (Kate) Morant '15 Mohit Nair '13 Zachary Nollet '13 |
Jeremy Ojalehto '14 Gina Piersanti Gioe '15 Amitra Rao '14 Julie Steinberg '13 Ariel Wampler '15 Ryan Yeh '13 Anna Zhu '14
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