We review the growing literature on health numeracy, the ability to understand and use
numerical information, and its relation to cognition, health behaviors, and medical outcomes …

From Piaget to the present, traditional and dual-process theories have predicted
improvement in reasoning from childhood to adulthood, and improvement has been …

Crime, smoking, drug use, alcoholism, reckless driving, and many other unhealthy patterns
of behavior that play out over a lifetime often debut during adolescence. Avoiding risks or …

Combining meaning, memory, and development, the perennially popular topic of intuition
can be approached in a new way. Fuzzy-trace theory integrates these topics by …

The tenets of fuzzy trace theory are summarized with respect to their relevance to health and
medical decision making. Illustrations are given for HIV prevention, cardiovascular disease …

Despite evidence that individual differences in numeracy affect judgment and decision
making, the precise mechanisms underlying how such differences produce biases and …

“Numeracy,” so-called on analogy with literacy, is essential for making health and other
social judgments in everyday life [Reyna, VF, & Brainerd, CJ (in press). The importance of …

Fuzzy-trace theory posits independent verbatim and gist memory processes, a distinction
that has implications for such applied topics as eyewitness testimony. This distinction …

Predictions of fuzzy-trace theory and neurobiological approaches are examined regarding
risk taking in a classic decision-making task—the framing task—as well as in the context of …

Fuzzy-trace theory explains risky decision making in children, adolescents, and adults,
incorporating social and cultural factors as well as differences in impulsivity. Here, we …