Clarissa A. Thompson
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View article: A field-initiated vision of research infrastructure for STEM education
A field-initiated vision of research infrastructure for STEM education Open
STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen if we designed research infrastructure f…
View article: A Field-Initiated Vision of Research Infrastructure for STEM Education
A Field-Initiated Vision of Research Infrastructure for STEM Education Open
STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen if we designed research infrastructure f…
View article: A Field-Initiated Vision of Research Infrastructure for STEM Education
A Field-Initiated Vision of Research Infrastructure for STEM Education Open
STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen if we designed research infrastructure f…
View article: Lack of integrated number sense among college students: Evidence from rational number cross-notation comparison.
Lack of integrated number sense among college students: Evidence from rational number cross-notation comparison. Open
Growing evidence highlights the predictive power of cross-notation magnitude comparison (e.g., 2/5 vs. 0.25) for math outcomes, but whether these relations persist into adulthood and the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Across two stu…
View article: Parental math anxiety is associated with negative emotional activation during hypothetical health decision making
Parental math anxiety is associated with negative emotional activation during hypothetical health decision making Open
Dealing with numbers is an inherent aspect of interpreting health statistics, and negative emotions may interfere with medical decision making. One emotionally charged decision-making context is parents making medical decisions for their c…
View article: How Are You Feeling Today? Dynamic and Static Indices of Daily Affect Predict Psychological Adjustment One Year Later in a Multi-cohort, Longitudinal Investigation
How Are You Feeling Today? Dynamic and Static Indices of Daily Affect Predict Psychological Adjustment One Year Later in a Multi-cohort, Longitudinal Investigation Open
Background Dominant psychotherapies target how individuals experience and understand their daily emotion. Therefore, research examining how daily emotions influence long-term mental health outcomes may help inform treatment development. Me…
View article: From integers to fractions: The role of analogy in transfer and long-term learning
From integers to fractions: The role of analogy in transfer and long-term learning Open
Fractions are the gatekeepers to advanced mathematics but are difficult to learn. One powerful learning mechanism is analogy, which builds fraction understanding on a pre-existing foundation of integer knowledge. Indeed, a short interventi…
View article: Attending to what’s important: what heat maps may reveal about attention, inhibitory control, and fraction arithmetic performance
Attending to what’s important: what heat maps may reveal about attention, inhibitory control, and fraction arithmetic performance Open
Math proficiency is an important predictor of educational attainment and life success. However, developing mathematical competency is challenging, and some content (e.g., fractions) can be enigmatic. Numerous factors are suspected to influ…
View article: Building integrated number sense: comparing fraction-only to cross-notation number line training
Building integrated number sense: comparing fraction-only to cross-notation number line training Open
Growing evidence points to the predictive power of cross-notation rational number understanding (e.g., 2/5 vs. 0.25) relative to within-notation understanding (e.g., 2/5 vs. 1/4) in predicting math outcomes. Though correlational in nature,…
View article: Children’s estimates of equivalent rational number magnitudes are not equal: evidence from whole numbers, percentages, decimals, and fractions
Children’s estimates of equivalent rational number magnitudes are not equal: evidence from whole numbers, percentages, decimals, and fractions Open
Fractions, decimals, and percentages are generally assumed to differ in difficulty based on the degree to which their structure aligns with, or differs from, that of whole numbers. Percentages are viewed as most similar to whole numbers wi…
View article: The associations of cultural worldviews, political orientation, and trust with COVID‐19 risk beliefs in the U.S.
The associations of cultural worldviews, political orientation, and trust with COVID‐19 risk beliefs in the U.S. Open
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 analyses to investigate the associations of belief …
View article: Visual display size and shape impact the accuracy of US adults' health‐risk estimates
Visual display size and shape impact the accuracy of US adults' health‐risk estimates Open
Health risks, when presented as ratios (e.g., two out of seven people), are challenging to understand, but visual displays can foster accurate understanding. We conducted three experiments to test how characteristics of numbers (Experiment…
View article: Metacognitive Cues, Working Memory, and Math Anxiety: The Regulated Attention in Mathematical Problem Solving (RAMPS) Framework
Metacognitive Cues, Working Memory, and Math Anxiety: The Regulated Attention in Mathematical Problem Solving (RAMPS) Framework Open
Mathematical problem solving is a process involving metacognitive (e.g., judging progress), cognitive (e.g., working memory), and affective (e.g., math anxiety) factors. Recent research encourages researchers who study math cognition to co…
View article: Lack of integrated number sense among college students: evidence from rational number cross-notation comparison
Lack of integrated number sense among college students: evidence from rational number cross-notation comparison Open
Growing evidence highlights the predictive power of cross-notation magnitude comparison (e.g., 2/5 vs. 0.25) for math outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Across two studies, we investigated undergraduates’ cross-notatio…
View article: Task features change the relation between math anxiety and number line estimation performance with rational numbers: Two large-scale online studies.
Task features change the relation between math anxiety and number line estimation performance with rational numbers: Two large-scale online studies. Open
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 performance is affected by task features, such as number type …
View article: What drives preventative health behaviors several months into a pandemic: A replication and extension
What drives preventative health behaviors several months into a pandemic: A replication and extension Open
There is continued interest in understanding what leads people to do CDC-recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors. We tested whether fear and COVID-19 worry would replicate as the primary drivers of six CDC recommend prevention behaviors.…
View article: Experimental tests of hypothetical lottery incentives on unvaccinated adults’ COVID-19 vaccination intentions.
Experimental tests of hypothetical lottery incentives on unvaccinated adults’ COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Open
Multiple lottery structures could be equally (un)motivating for unvaccinated adults. Structures that distribute incentives across more people or alternative public health strategies should be considered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 …
View article: Number lines can be more effective at facilitating adults’ performance on health-related ratio problems than risk ladders and icon arrays.
Number lines can be more effective at facilitating adults’ performance on health-related ratio problems than risk ladders and icon arrays. Open
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 seldom used in health contexts. College students solved ratio p…
View article: Self-care behaviors and affect during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Self-care behaviors and affect during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Open
Self-care behaviors continue to have mental health benefits during stressful environments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders. Negative affect can play an adaptive role during times of stress by facilitating self-care. (P…
View article: Emotional complexity under high stress: Do protective associations for risk behaviors persist even during a pandemic?
Emotional complexity under high stress: Do protective associations for risk behaviors persist even during a pandemic? Open
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 pandemic. Past research suggests that complex emotion conceptualizations c…
View article: Task features change the relation between math anxiety and number line estimation performance with rational numbers: Two large-scale online studies
Task features change the relation between math anxiety and number line estimation performance with rational numbers: Two large-scale online studies Open
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 performance is affected by task features, such as number type …
View article: From integers to fractions: The role of analogy in developing a coherent understanding of proportional magnitude.
From integers to fractions: The role of analogy in developing a coherent understanding of proportional magnitude. Open
Children display an early sensitivity to implicit proportions (e.g., 1 of 5 apples vs. 3 of 4 apples), but have considerable difficulty in learning the explicit, symbolic proportions denoted by fractions (e.g., "1/5" vs. "3/4"). Theoretica…
View article: Numeracy and COVID-19: examining interrelationships between numeracy, health numeracy and behaviour
Numeracy and COVID-19: examining interrelationships between numeracy, health numeracy and behaviour Open
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe have been exposed to large amounts of statistical data. Previous studies have shown that individuals' mathematical understanding of health-related information affects their attitudes an…
View article: Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy Open
Rational numbers (i.e., fractions, percentages, decimals, and whole-number frequencies) are notoriously difficult mathematical constructs. Yet, correctly interpreting rational numbers is imperative for understanding health statistics, such…
View article: Students’ ability to calculate their final course grade may not be as easy as you think: Insights from mathematical cognition.
Students’ ability to calculate their final course grade may not be as easy as you think: Insights from mathematical cognition. Open
Is there an optimal grading scheme? Do psychology instructors prefer one grading scheme over another? These questions were recently posted on the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Facebook page. After reading the responses, we realize…
View article: Experimental Tests of How Hypothetical Monetary Lottery Incentives Influence Vaccine-Hesitant U.S. Adults’ Intentions to Vaccinate
Experimental Tests of How Hypothetical Monetary Lottery Incentives Influence Vaccine-Hesitant U.S. Adults’ Intentions to Vaccinate Open
Background: In May, 2021, U.S. states began implementing “vaccination lotteries” to encourage vaccine-hesitant individuals to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Purpose: Drawing on theories from math cognition and behavioral economics, we tested seve…
View article: Effects of figural and numerical presentation formats on growing pattern performance
Effects of figural and numerical presentation formats on growing pattern performance Open
Prior work exploring preschool-aged children’s reasoning with repeating patterns has shown that patterning ability is an important predictor of math achievement; however, there is limited research exploring older children’s growing pattern…
View article: Math predictors of numeric health and non-health decision-making problems
Math predictors of numeric health and non-health decision-making problems Open
People frequently encounter numeric information in medical and health contexts. In this paper, we investigated the math factors that are associated with decision-making accuracy in health and non-health contexts. This is an important endea…