Pooja G Sidney
Biographic Data
| ID | 6540468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pooja G Sidney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pooja G |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidney |
| SIGNATURE | SIDNEY P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3719-8543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
College Students' Perceptions of Numeric Information About Nicotine Health Risks Across Different Visual Presentation Formats
Health communication sources sometimes present information in ways that are theoretically ineffective for supporting understanding of numeric health risks. This study examined how visual presentation formats influence adolescent college students' comprehension of nicotine‐related health statistics. Participants ( N = 170) were randomly assigned to view numeric information about nicotine's effects on mental health in one of four conditions: text‐o…
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 …
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…
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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…
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 …
College Students' Perceptions of Numeric Information About Nicotine Health Risks Across Different Visual Presentation Formats
Health communication sources sometimes present information in ways that are theoretically ineffective for supporting understanding of numeric health risks. This study examined how visual presentation formats influence adolescent college students' comprehension of nicotine‐related health statistics. Participants ( N = 170) were randomly assigned to view numeric information about nicotine's effects on mental health in one of four conditions: text‐o…
Computer Science (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (2 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)