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 …

From Piaget to the present, traditional and dual-process theories have predicted
improvement in reasoning from childhood to adulthood, and improvement has been …

We introduce the Berlin Numeracy Test, a new psychometrically sound instrument that
quickly assesses statistical numeracy and risk literacy. We present 21 studies (n= 5336) …

When making decisions, people must frequently take into account numerical information, but
not all individuals have the ability to understand and use numbers. Less numerate …

Economic analysis has so far said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS) are
related to the individual's economic preferences in different choice domains, such as risk …

The study of neuronal specialisation in different cognitive and perceptual domains is
important for our understanding of the human brain, its typical and atypical development …

Predictions of fuzzy-trace theory and neurobiological approaches are examined regarding
risk taking in a classic decision-making task—the framing task—as well as in the context of …

The paper surveys over twenty models of delay discounting (also known as temporal
discounting, time preference, time discounting), that psychologists and economists have put …

There is much evidence that high-capacity reasoners perform better on a variety of
reasoning tasks (Stanovich, 1999), a phenomenon that is normally attributed to differences …

Numeracy—that is, how facile people are with mathematical concepts and their applications—
is gaining importance in medical decision making and risk communication. This article …