Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

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 …

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests:
rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people …

If citizens' behavior threatens to harm others or seems not to be in their own interest (eg,
risking severe head injuries by riding a motorcycle without a helmet), it is not uncommon for …

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 …

Summary Judgment and decision making researchers have produced many insights to
improve the capacity to decide. Decades of research have yielded an array of debiasing …

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 …

Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises
of intensified data sourcing. In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more …

Between 2002 and 2007, cell phones displaced landline telephones as the technology
Americans say would be hardest to give up. Not only that, in just half a decade cell phones …