Under the direction of Valerie Reyna, Ph.D.,  the Laboratory for Rational Decision Making researches human judgment and decision making, numeracy and quantitative reasoning, risk and uncertainty, medical decision making, social judgment, and memory.  Dr. Reyna is a developer of fuzzy-trace theory, a model of the relation between memory and higher reasoning that has been widely applied in law and medicine. Learn more about her current research program.

  • Explainable and Interpretable AI
  • Spread of Misinformation through Social Media
  • Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Risky Decision Making
  • Health and Medical Decision Making
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology and Law
  • Basic Science
  • In the News
Memory on trial in the courtroom

Students and advisees may contact Dr. Reyna via email: vr53@cornell.edu