Cynthia A Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 331532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia A Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8758-3218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What drives preventative health behaviors one year into a pandemic? A replication and extension
Objective: There is continued interest in understanding what leads people to engage in CDC-recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors. We tested whether fear and COVID-19 worry would replicate as the primary drivers of six CDC recommended prevention behaviors. Methods and Measures: We recruited 741 adult participants during the second major peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (early 2021). Using very similar methods to the original …
A new model explaining number-line estimation performance across development
While performance on number-line estimation tasks strongly predicts mathematical achievement, the underlying reasons for this connection are heavily debated. The current research represents an adversarial collaboration, whereby researchers on opposite sides of the number-line estimation debate present a new model, nlFit, that predicts number-line estimates by building from ordinality toward linearity. It incorporates the ability to differentiate …
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy
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 as gauging the likelihood of side effects from a medication. Several pernicious biases affect health decision-making involving rational numbers. In our novel developmental framework, the natural-number bias—a te…
Visual display size and shape impact the accuracy of US adults' health‐risk estimates
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 1), icon arrays (Experiments 1, 2, and 3), and number lines (Experiments 1 and 3) influenced people's ability to accurately estimate the risk of experiencing side effects. Participants in each experiment saw sm…
Emotional complexity under high stress
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 captured as emotion differentiation (ability to discriminate between emotional states) and polarity (ability to integrate positive and negative features of emotional experience) may be protective. We examined ass…
From integers to fractions
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"). Theoretically, reducing the gap between representations of implicit versus explicit proportions would improve understanding of fractions, but little is known about how the representations develop and interact with one ano…
Perceptions of ease and difficulty, but not growth mindset, relate to specific math attitudes
BACKGROUND: People report negative attitudes towards fractions and percentages relative to whole numbers (WNs, Sidney, Thompson, Fitzsimmons, & Taber, 2021), and these attitudes may relate to an individual's interpretation of what experiences with these number types signify. Because fractions are challenging, individual differences related to beliefs about challenge, such as endorsement of a growth versus fixed mindset (Dweck, 2006) and interpret…
Children can accurately monitor and control their number-line estimation performance
Accurate monitoring and control are essential for effective self-regulated learning. These metacognitive abilities may be particularly important for developing math skills, such as when children are deciding whether a math task is difficult or whether they made a mistake on a particular item. The present experiments investigate children's ability to monitor and control their math performance. Experiment 1 assessed task- and item-level monitoring …
Cognitive Development
Relations of different types of numerical magnitude representations to each other and to mathematics achievement
An integrated theory of whole number and fractions development
Learning from curriculum materials
Relationships among organizational family support, job autonomy, perceived control, and employee well-being
The authors analyzed data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (N = 3,504) to investigate relationships among availability of formal organizational family support (family benefits and alternative schedules), job autonomy, informal organizational support (work-family culture, supervisor support, and coworker support), perceived control, and employee attitudes and well-being. Using hierarchical regression, the authors found that t…
Rationale and construct validity evidence for a measure of perceived organizational family support (Pofs)
Although a substantial literature has accumulated regarding specific work-family practices and their effects, until recently little systematic attention has been paid to the overall climate of organizational work-family support. (In contrast, an analogous concept, colloquially referred to as 'family friendliness', has often been invoked but rarely systematically measured.) The present research provides a conceptual definition of our focal constru…
When Work–Family Benefits Are Not Enough
Work and Pregnancy
Commitment to the union
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a criterion for union commitment. Factor analysis is used to identify the statistical structure of the construct, and correlational data is employed to provide evidence of the construct validity of the dimensions identified. A questionnaire comprised of items measuring attitudes toward unions, union commitment, participation in the union, socialization influences, demographic and emplo…
Learning from curriculum materials
Work and Pregnancy
Rationale and construct validity evidence for a measure of perceived organizational family support (Pofs)
Although a substantial literature has accumulated regarding specific work-family practices and their effects, until recently little systematic attention has been paid to the overall climate of organizational work-family support. (In contrast, an analogous concept, colloquially referred to as 'family friendliness', has often been invoked but rarely systematically measured.) The present research provides a conceptual definition of our focal constru…
From integers to fractions
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"). Theoretically, reducing the gap between representations of implicit versus explicit proportions would improve understanding of fractions, but little is known about how the representations develop and interact with one ano…
Children can accurately monitor and control their number-line estimation performance
Accurate monitoring and control are essential for effective self-regulated learning. These metacognitive abilities may be particularly important for developing math skills, such as when children are deciding whether a math task is difficult or whether they made a mistake on a particular item. The present experiments investigate children's ability to monitor and control their math performance. Experiment 1 assessed task- and item-level monitoring …
Commitment to the union
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a criterion for union commitment. Factor analysis is used to identify the statistical structure of the construct, and correlational data is employed to provide evidence of the construct validity of the dimensions identified. A questionnaire comprised of items measuring attitudes toward unions, union commitment, participation in the union, socialization influences, demographic and emplo…
When Work–Family Benefits Are Not Enough
Work and Pregnancy
Rationale and construct validity evidence for a measure of perceived organizational family support (Pofs)
Although a substantial literature has accumulated regarding specific work-family practices and their effects, until recently little systematic attention has been paid to the overall climate of organizational work-family support. (In contrast, an analogous concept, colloquially referred to as 'family friendliness', has often been invoked but rarely systematically measured.) The present research provides a conceptual definition of our focal constru…
Relationships among organizational family support, job autonomy, perceived control, and employee well-being
The authors analyzed data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (N = 3,504) to investigate relationships among availability of formal organizational family support (family benefits and alternative schedules), job autonomy, informal organizational support (work-family culture, supervisor support, and coworker support), perceived control, and employee attitudes and well-being. Using hierarchical regression, the authors found that t…
Learning from curriculum materials
An integrated theory of whole number and fractions development
Relations of different types of numerical magnitude representations to each other and to mathematics achievement
Cognitive Development
Children can accurately monitor and control their number-line estimation performance
Accurate monitoring and control are essential for effective self-regulated learning. These metacognitive abilities may be particularly important for developing math skills, such as when children are deciding whether a math task is difficult or whether they made a mistake on a particular item. The present experiments investigate children's ability to monitor and control their math performance. Experiment 1 assessed task- and item-level monitoring …
Emotional complexity under high stress
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 captured as emotion differentiation (ability to discriminate between emotional states) and polarity (ability to integrate positive and negative features of emotional experience) may be protective. We examined ass…
From integers to fractions
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"). Theoretically, reducing the gap between representations of implicit versus explicit proportions would improve understanding of fractions, but little is known about how the representations develop and interact with one ano…
Perceptions of ease and difficulty, but not growth mindset, relate to specific math attitudes
BACKGROUND: People report negative attitudes towards fractions and percentages relative to whole numbers (WNs, Sidney, Thompson, Fitzsimmons, & Taber, 2021), and these attitudes may relate to an individual's interpretation of what experiences with these number types signify. Because fractions are challenging, individual differences related to beliefs about challenge, such as endorsement of a growth versus fixed mindset (Dweck, 2006) and interpret…
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy
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 as gauging the likelihood of side effects from a medication. Several pernicious biases affect health decision-making involving rational numbers. In our novel developmental framework, the natural-number bias—a te…
Visual display size and shape impact the accuracy of US adults' health‐risk estimates
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 1), icon arrays (Experiments 1, 2, and 3), and number lines (Experiments 1 and 3) influenced people's ability to accurately estimate the risk of experiencing side effects. Participants in each experiment saw sm…
What drives preventative health behaviors one year into a pandemic? A replication and extension
Objective: There is continued interest in understanding what leads people to engage in CDC-recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors. We tested whether fear and COVID-19 worry would replicate as the primary drivers of six CDC recommended prevention behaviors. Methods and Measures: We recruited 741 adult participants during the second major peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (early 2021). Using very similar methods to the original …
A new model explaining number-line estimation performance across development
While performance on number-line estimation tasks strongly predicts mathematical achievement, the underlying reasons for this connection are heavily debated. The current research represents an adversarial collaboration, whereby researchers on opposite sides of the number-line estimation debate present a new model, nlFit, that predicts number-line estimates by building from ordinality toward linearity. It incorporates the ability to differentiate …
Psychology (15 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Number line (4 works)