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News Articles:

• KCOY12 Central Coast News - Santa Barbara, C (2012). Professor explains deadly 'choking game' logic. KCOY12 Central Coast News Retrieved April 19, 2012 from http://www.kcoy.com/story/17540589/2012/04/18/professor-explains-deadly-choking-game-logic.

• Szalavitz, M. (2012). Why the teen brain is drawn to risk. TIME.com. Retrieved October 16, 2012 from http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/02/why-the-teen-brain-is-drawn-to-risk/.

• Booker, K (2011). False memories lack sensory and other details, study finds.. ChronicleOnline Retrieved June 3, 2011 from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April11/FalseMemories.html.

• Booker, K. (2011). Reyna examines why some reject vaccination despite record of success. ChronicleOnline Retrieved July 20, 2011 from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July11/ReynaVaccine.html.

• McKain, J. (2011). Researchers connect gene to precondition for Alzheimer's. ChronicleOnline Retrieved July 20, 2011 from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July11/AlzheimersGene.html.

• Campbell, J. (2010). Big Red by the Bay Panel Explores How We Make Decisions. ChronicleOnline. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March10/BigRedBay.html.

• Gold, L. (2010). Researchers Develop Simple Tools to Predict Cognitive Decline in Aging. Chronicle Online. Retrieved April 8, 2010, http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan10/ARRABrainerd.html.

• Hall, S. (2009). Many Patients Lack the Numerical Skills to Make Good Health Decisions, Study Finds. Chronicle Online. Retrieved April 8, 2010, from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/numeracyHealth.html.

• Kelley, S. (2009). Negative Emotion More Likely to Cause False Memories, Researchers Find. ChronicleOnline. Retrieved April 8, 2010, from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/falseMemories.sk.html.

• 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.

• Brody, J. (2007). Teenage Risks and How to Avoid Them. The New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2010 from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/health/18brod.html?ex=1355634000&en=e09725c0c6dd2782&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink.

• Herbert, W. (2007). Remember That Thing That Never Happened?. Newsweek Web Exclusive. Retrieved April 8, 2010, http://www.newsweek.com/id/32975.

• Herbert, W. (2006). Go Ahead, I Dare You. Newsweek Web Exclusive. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://www.newsweek.com/id/44701.

• Lang, S. (2006). Why Teens Do Stupid Things: They think more than adults do about risks and benefits, but then opt for the benefits. Chronicle Online. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/RN.teens.risks.ssl.html.

• Wargo (2006). Risky Business: The surprising 'rationality' of adolescents. Oberver. 19(12). Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2098.

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Refereed Journal Articles:

• 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. view abstract.

• 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,. view abstract.

• 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 . view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• Liberali, J. M., Reyna, V. F., Furlan, S., Stein, L. M., Pardo, S. T. (2012). Individual differences in numeracy, with implications for biases and fallacies in probability judgment.. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25, 361-381. doi:10.1002/bdm.752. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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.. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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 . view abstract.

• 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 . view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. 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. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.134.3.343. 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. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.134.3.343. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02177.x. 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. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.6.1035. 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. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.05.002. view abstract.

• 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 . 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. doi:10.1007/s12160-008-9037-8. 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. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.007. 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. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2007.03.011. view abstract.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. 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. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2007.11.002. view abstract.

• 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 . 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. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2007.03.010. 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. doi:10.1017/S0140525X07001872. 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. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.42.5.962. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Estrada, S. (2006). Recollection rejection of false narrative statements. Memory, 14(6), 672-691. doi:10.1080/09658210600648449. 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. 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. 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. doi:10.1002/bdm.493. view abstract.

• 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. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00689.x. 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.

• 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. view abstract.

• 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. 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. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.110.4.762. 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. doi:10.1111/1539-6924.00332. 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. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.38.1.156. view abstract.

• Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (2002). Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 164-168. doi:10.1111/1467-8721.00192. 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. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00477. 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. doi:10.1006/jmla.2001.2796. 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. doi: 10.1006/drev.2001.0534. 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. doi:10.1016/S0273-2297(02)00003-5. 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. doi:10.3758/BF03195444. 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. 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. 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. doi:10.1177/0272989X0102100202. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2001.00214.x. 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. 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. 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. doi:10.1016/S1041-6080(01)00034-6. 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:

• Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S.B., Dougherty, M., & Confrey, J. (2012). The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning and decision making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. view abstract.

• 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:

• 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.

• 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. view abstract.

• Holliday, R.E., Humphries, J.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.R. (2012). Interviewing vulernable 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. & 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. (2011). 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/default.htm. view abstract.

• 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). 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. 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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