Mooney, L. A., & Best, R. (2024, May). That’s a problem for future me: The relative influence of future self-continuity and temporal discounting for procrastination. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Sadeqi, F., & Best, R. (2023, November). Mind, body, and soul: Purpose in life as a mediator between physical activity and cognitive aging. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, Tampa, FL.
Willard, M., Pacetti, O., Best, R., Morrison, K., & Turiano, N. A. (2023, November). The protective lifespan benefits of social support buffers childhood adversity. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, Tampa, FL.
Sadeqi, F., & Best, R. (2023, May). Increased psychological distress in multigenerational households during COVID-19. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
McKibben, D. T. & Best, R. (2023, March). Performance of preventable health behaviors in caregivers and non-caregivers during COVID-19. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Miesel, A. & Best, R. (2023, March). Objective numeracy correlates with big five personality traits. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Best, R. & Sadeqi, F. (2023, November). Aging and numeracy: A meta-analysis. Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, Tampa, FL.
Best, R., Carman, K., & Parker, A. (2022, November). Aging and longitudinal effects on numeracy. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Best, R., Freydefont, L., & Freund, A. M. (2019, November). Aging, task difficulty, and effort investment: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting, Austin, TX.
Best, R., & Freund, A. M. (2019, May). General benevolence across adulthood: Evidence for no age differences in non-monetary altruism in the lab and the wild. Poster presented at the 9th International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress.
Best, R., & Freund, A. M. (2018, November). Age, loss minimization, and the role of probability for decision making. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA.
Charness, N., Boot, W. R., Souders, D. J., & Best, R. (2018, November). Transportation for aging adults: Challenges and potential technology solutions. In Sara J. Czaja (Organizer), The benefits and challenges of technology for older adults: Lessons from CREATE. Symposium conducted at the Gerontological Society of America 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA.
Best, R. (2016, November). Aging, gain-loss framing, and the subjective valuation of technology. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Best, R., & Charness, N. (2015, November). A meta-analytic review of aging and the framing effect. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Charness, N., Best, R., Boot, W. R., & Evans, J. (2015, November). Are there differences in aesthetics and comfort preferences for telehealth devices? Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Boot, W. R., Best, R., Charness, N., Kort, H. S. M., Van Houwelingen, C. T. M., & Barakat, A. (2015, November). Exploring factors influencing U.S. nurses’ willingness to use telehealth technology. Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Charness, N., Best, R., Evans, J., Boot, W. R. (2015, April). Age and the stability of aesthetics and affect for wearable devices. Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
Sounders, D. J., Schiao, K., Best, R., & Charness, N. (2014, November). Estimation and validation of the auditory short-term memory store in both older adults and younger adults. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting, Washington, DC.
Best, R., Antonietti, A., Charness, N., & Kort, H. (2013, November). Predictors for the use and willingness to use remote telecare in older Americans. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Best, R., & Charness, N. (2012, November). Preferences for information feedback and privacy for a wrist-worn physiological monitoring device. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Best, R., & Arredondo, K. (2011, November). Perceived usefulness of computers in the support of health related activities. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA.
Best, R. (2022, April). Situational and task moderators in value based decisions. In Sebastian Horn & Ryan Best (Organizers), Aging and decision making: Recent Findings and Theoretical Developments. Symposium conducted at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Best, R., & Freund, A. M. (2019, April). The cost of giving: Absence of age differences in altruism in non-monetary domains. Poster presented at the Aging and Cognition 5th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
Best, R., & Freund, A. M. (2018, April). Decisions between self-interested vs. altruistic outcomes across adulthood. In Ryan Best (Organizer), Prosocial tendencies across the adult life span: Cognitive, motivational, and neural factors. Symposium conducted at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Best, R. (2017, April). Motivated cognition in decision making: A meta-analytic review of aging and the framing effect. Paper presented at the Aging and Cognition 4th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
Best, R. (2017, April). Estimating age differences in the subjective valuation of technology using cross-modal discounting. Poster presented at the Aging and Cognition 4th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
Best, R. (2016, April). Age differences in the subjective valuation of technology. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Best, R., Bartley, J., Antonietti, A., Charness, N., & Kort, H. (2014, April). Predictors for the use and willingness to use remote telecare in American and Dutch older adults: A model comparison approach. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Wright, T. J., Charness, N., Boot, W. R., & Best, R. (2014, April). Older and younger adult error rate parameter estimation for the model human processor. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Best, R., Souders, D. J., Dachoach, A., & Charness, N. (2012, April). Effective software training: A lack of spacing effect for an email related procedural memory task. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Souders, D. J., Best, R., & Charness, N. (2012, April). Further aging of the model human processor: More older GOMS parameters. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Best, R., & Charness, N. (2010, April). Speech vs. keyboard input for older email users. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Best, R., Strough, J., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2024, March). Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic across sociocultural contexts: The intersection of gender, age, and romantic co-residence. Paper presented at the 6th Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference, Washington, D.C.
Strough, J., Best, R., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2023, March). Age differences in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: March 2020-June 2021. Paper presented at the 5th Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference, Washington, D.C.
Best, R., Carman, K. G., & Parker, A. M. (2020, February). The impact of numeracy on internet panel retention. Paper presented at the 2nd Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference, Washington, D.C.
Best, R., & Whitfield, H. (2014, November). Social discounting and aging. Poster presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making 35th Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.
Best, R., & Charness, N. (2013, November). Aging and the framing effect: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making 34th Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Best, R. (2011, November). The effect of age on discounting of technology-related learning. Poster presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making 32nd Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
Best, R., *Sadeqi, F., & *Mooney, L. A. (2024, May). The self-adjusted risk game: A continuous measure of risk preference for gain-loss framing tasks. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Larco, N., Fraade-Blanar, L., Lynott, J., & Best, R. (2021, September). A broken promise? Automated vehicles and older adults. Paper presented at the TRB Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity, Virtual.
Best, R., Fraade-Blanar, L., & Blumenthal, M. S. (2021, July). Aging and attitudes towards automated vehicles: Implicit and explicit trust in sources of safety information. Paper presented at the 2021 TRB Annual Automated Road Transportation Symposium, Virtual.
Best, R., Fraade-Blanar, L., & Blumenthal, M. S. (2021, January). Perception of safety of automated vehicles: Age and the influence of the source and content of safety-related messages. Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 100th Annual Meeting, Virtual.
Best, R. (2019, November). The influence of age, outcome magnitude, and probability on risky choice selection in gain-loss framing scenarios. Paper presented at the LEAP Brown Bag Seminar at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.
Charness, N., Best, R., Evans, J., & Boot, W. R. (2016, September). Age and the stability of aesthetics and affect for wearable devices. Paper presented at the 10th World Conference on Gerontechnology.
Best, R., & Charness, N. (2012, April). The effect of age on discounting of technology-related learning. Paper presented at the Florida State University Psychology Department Graduate Research Day, Tallahassee, FL.
Moxley, J., Ericsson, K. A., Towne, T., & Best, R. (2010, August). The interaction of skill for recognition of chess positions. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.
Fox, M. C., Ericsson, K. A., & Best, R. (2009, November). Do procedures for verbal reporting of thinking have to be reactive? A meta-analysis and recommendations for best reporting methods. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.