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List of works by Rocio Garcia-Retamero

A multidisciplinary approach to designing and evaluating Electronic Medical Record portal messages that support patient self-care

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Advances in efficient health communication: promoting prevention and detection of STDs

scientific article published on April 2012

Brief Messages to Promote Prevention and Detection of Sexually Transmitted Infections

scientific article published on January 2015

Canadian and Spanish youths' risk perceptions of drinking and driving, and riding with a drunk driver

scientific article published in April 2011

Cassandra's regret: The psychology of not wanting to know

scientific article (publication date: March 2017)

Causal beliefs and empirical evidence

scientific article published in January 2011

Commentary: Risky decision-making is associated with residential choice in healthy older adults

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Communicating consequences of risky behaviors: Life expectancy versus risk of disease

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

Communicating global cardiovascular risk: are icon arrays better than numerical estimates in improving understanding, recall and perception of risk?

scientific article published in August 2013

Communicating treatment risk reduction to people with low numeracy skills: a cross-cultural comparison

scientific article published on 15 October 2009

Corrigendum to: "Who profits from visual aids: Overcoming challenges in people's understanding of risks" [Social Science & Medicine, 70 (2010), 1019-1025.

scientific article published on 8 April 2010

Designing Visual Aids That Promote Risk Literacy: A Systematic Review of Health Research and Evidence-Based Design Heuristics

scientific article published on February 2017

Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect?

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Do low-numeracy people avoid shared decision making?

scientific article

Do people treat missing information adaptively when making inferences?

scientific article published on 21 February 2009

Do the media provide transparent health information? A cross-cultural comparison of public information about the HPV vaccine

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Doc, what would you do if you were me? On self–other discrepancies in medical decision making

scientific article published on October 31, 2011

Does causal knowledge help us be faster and more frugal in our decisions?

scientific article published in September 2007

Does imitation benefit cue order learning?

scientific article published in January 2009

Does young adults’ preferred role in decision making about health, money, and career depend on their advisors’ leadership skills?

scientific article published on June 25, 2012

Effective Evidence-Based Programs For Preventing Sexually-Transmitted Infections: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article

Effective communication of risks to young adults: using message framing and visual aids to increase condom use and STD screening

scientific article published in September 2011

Effectiveness of a psychological intervention focused on stress management for women prior to IVF

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Enhancing understanding and recall of quantitative information about medical risks: a cross-cultural comparison between Germany and Spain

scientific article published in May 2011

Factors predicting surgeons' preferred and actual roles in interactions with their patients

scientific article

Feeling the Numbers: On the Interplay Between Risk, Affect, and Numeracy

Graph literacy: a cross-cultural comparison

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Health Professionals Prefer to Communicate Risk-Related Numerical Information using "1-in-X" Ratios

scientific article published in October 2017

How People with Low and High Graph Literacy Process Health Graphs: Evidence from Eye-tracking

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How are risk ratios reported in orthopaedic surgery journals? A descriptive study of formats used to report absolute risks

How to Reduce the Effect of Framing on Messages About Health

scientific article published on August 25, 2010

Improving risk literacy in surgeons

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Improving risk understanding across ability levels: Encouraging active processing with dynamic icon arrays

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Is patients' numeracy related to physical and mental health?

scientific article published on May 2015

Lonely hearts don't get checked: On the role of social support in screening for cardiovascular risk

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Measuring Graph Literacy without a Test: A Brief Subjective Assessment

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Neural mechanisms underlying urgent and evaluative behaviors: An fMRI study on the interaction of automatic and controlled processes

scientific article

Numeracy of multiple sclerosis patients: A comparison of patients from the PERCEPT study to a German probabilistic sample

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

On avoiding framing effects in experienced decision makers

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On defensive decision making: how doctors make decisions for their patients

scientific article published on May 31, 2012

Pictures speak louder than numbers: on communicating medical risks to immigrants with limited non-native language proficiency

scientific article published on March 2011

Prejudice against Women in Male-congenial Environments: Perceptions of Gender Role Congruity in Leadership

Statistical numeracy for health: a cross-cultural comparison with probabilistic national samples

scientific article published in March 2010

Strengths and Gaps in Physicians' Risk Communication: A Scenario Study of the Influence of Numeracy on Cancer Screening Communication

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Take-the-best in expert-novice decision strategies for residential burglary

scientific article published in February 2009

The Influence of Skills, Message Frame, and Visual Aids on Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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The Risks We Dread: A Social Circle Account

scientific article published on April 11, 2012

The Views of Young Women on HPV Vaccine Communication in Four European Countries

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The impact of nontraditionalism on the malleability of gender stereotypes in Spain and Germany

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

The malleability of gender stereotypes: influence of population size on perceptions of men and women in the past, present, and future

scientific article published on September 2011

The moderating role of objective and subjective numeracy in attribute framing

scientific article published on 12 January 2015

To screen or not to screen: What factors influence complex screening decisions?

scientific article published in June 2016

Type D personality is related to severity of acute coronary syndrome in patients with recurrent cardiovascular disease

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Understanding the Harms and Benefits of Cancer Screening: A Model of Factors That Shape Informed Decision Making

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Using icon arrays to communicate medical risks: overcoming low numeracy

scientific article

Using plausible group sizes to communicate information about medical risks

scientific article published on August 21, 2010

Using visual aids to improve communication of risks about health: a review

scientific article

Visual aids improve diagnostic inferences and metacognitive judgment calibration

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Visual representation of statistical information improves diagnostic inferences in doctors and their patients

scientific article published on 8 February 2013

What Factors Moderate Self-Other Discrepancies in Decision Making? Results from a Vaccination Scenario

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

What shapes the probability weighting function? Influence of affect, numeric competencies, and information formats

When Higher Bars Are Not Larger Quantities: On Individual Differences in the Use of Spatial Information in Graph Comprehension

When one cue is not enough: combining fast and frugal heuristics with compound cue processing

scientific article published in September 2007

Who profits from visual aids: overcoming challenges in people's understanding of risks [corrected].

scientific article published on 28 January 2010