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E-mail: yasminaokan[at]gmail.comYasmina Okan is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Experimental Psychology in the University of Granada. She graduated in psychology at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid and subsequently completed her MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at University College London. As part of her doctoral thesis she currently investigates risk comprehension and communication in medical contexts. In particular, she focuses on investigating mechanisms underlying individual differences in the comprehension of graphical displays. She is also conducting research on moral judgment and decision making.
Selected Publications
Okan, Y., Garcia-Retamero, R., Cokely, E. T., & Maldonado, A. (2012). Individual differences in graph literacy: Overcoming denominator neglect in risk comprehension. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25, 390—401. doi: 10.1002/bdm.751
Okan, Y., Garcia-Retamero, R., Galesic, M., & Cokely, E. T. (2012). When higher bars are not larger quantities: On individual differences in the use of spatial-to-conceptual mappings in graph comprehension. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 12, 195—218. doi: 10.1080/13875868.2012.659302
Bodemer, N., Müller, S. M., Okan, Y., Garcia-Retamero, R., & Neumeyer-Gromen, A. (2012). Do the media provide transparent health information? A cross-cultural comparison of public information about the HPV Vaccine.Vaccine, 30, 3747—3756. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.03.005
Garcia-Retamero, R., Okan, Y., & Cokely, E. T. (2012). Using visual aids to improve communication of risks about health: A Review. The Scientific World Journal, Article ID 562637. doi:10.1100/2012/562637
Wiegmann, A. & Okan, Y. (2012). Order effects in moral judgment. Searching for an explanation. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1143—1148). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Wiegmann, A., Okan, Y., & Nagel, J. (2012). Order effects in moral judgment. Philosophical Psychology, 25, 813—836. doi:10.1080/09515089.2011.631995
Woller-Carter, M., Okan, Y., Cokely, E., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2012). Communicating and distorting risks with graphs: An eye-tracking study. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting September 2012, 56, 1723—1727. doi: 10.1177/1071181312561345
Okan, Y., Müller, S. M., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2010). Relación entre pensamiento y lenguaje: Cómo el género gramatical afecta a la representación semánticas de los objetos. Boletín de AELFA, 10, 52—55.
Wiegmann, A., Okan, Y. Nagel, J., & Mangold, S. (2010). Order effects in moral judgment. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2111—2116). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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