Self-care behaviors and affect during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

DJ Disabato, P Aurora, PG Sidney, JM Taber… - Health …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Self-care behaviors aimed at maintaining physical and mental health are often
recommended during stressful contexts. We tested emotional predictors of self-care …

Risk perception, decision-making, and risk communication in the time of COVID-19.

S Joslyn, GM Sinatra, D Morrow - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
After first being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization [WHO],(2020) in
March 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly and in the process altered our …

The associations of cultural worldviews, political orientation, and trust with COVID‐19 risk beliefs in the US

I Cheng, JM Taber, N Simonovic… - Social and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Given that risk beliefs predict engagement in behaviors to prevent disease, it is important to
understand the factors associated with risk beliefs. In the present paper, we conducted path …

Attending to what's important: what heat maps may reveal about attention, inhibitory control, and fraction arithmetic performance

KE Godwin, CA Thompson, F Kaur, Y Iwai… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Math proficiency is an important predictor of educational attainment and life success.
However, developing mathematical competency is challenging, and some content (eg …

Confidence in COVID problem solving: What factors predict adults' item-level metacognitive judgments on health-related math problems before and after an …

DA Scheibe, CJ Fitzsimmons, MK Mielicki… - Metacognition and …, 2022 - Springer
The advent of COVID-19 highlighted widespread misconceptions regarding people's
accuracy in interpreting quantitative health information. How do people judge whether they …

Task features change the relation between math anxiety and number line estimation performance with rational numbers: Two large-scale online studies.

MK Mielicki, ED Wilkey, DA Scheibe… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Math performance is negatively related to math anxiety (MA), though MA may impact certain
math skills more than others. We investigated whether the relation between MA and math …

Number lines can be more effective at facilitating adults' performance on health-related ratio problems than risk ladders and icon arrays.

MK Mielicki, CJ Fitzsimmons, LK Schiller… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual displays, such as icon arrays and risk ladders, are often used to communicate
numerical health information. Number lines improve reasoning with rational numbers but are …

Closing the gap between decision analysis and policy analysts before the next pandemic

RL Dillon, VM Bier, RS John… - Decision …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Decision analysis (DA) is an explicitly prescriptive discipline that separates beliefs about
uncertainties from value preferences in modeling to support decision making. Researchers …

Emotional complexity under high stress: Do protective associations for risk behaviors persist even during a pandemic?

TH Seah, PG Sidney, JM Taber, CA Thompson… - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Risk behaviors like substance use and binge eating are often used to cope with negative
emotions. Engagement in these behaviors has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 …

A bird's-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo

MW Alibali, PG Matthews, J Rodrigues, R Meng… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Research on mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction (MCLI) often takes cognition
as its point of departure and considers instruction at a later point in the research cycle. In this …