"Climate Change Conceptual Change: Scientific Information Can Transform Attitudes." Topics in Cognitive Science, 8(1), 49-75 (with D. Clark, 2016); http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rv6s50g(link is external) and doi: 10.1111/tops.12187.
"Increased wisdom from the ashes of ignorance and surprise: Numerically Driven Inferencing, global warming, and other exemplar realms." In The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 65, 129-182 (with E. L. Munnich & L. N. Lamprey, 2016), http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0744s5g6;(link is external)
"Fostering scientific and numerate practices in journalism to support rapid public learning." In Numeracy, 10, article 3 (with L. Yarnall, 2017), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.10.1.3(link is external)
"Why don't Americans accept evolution as much as people in peer nations do? A theory (Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny) and some pertinent evidence." In K. Rosengren, M. Evans, G. Sinatra, & S. Brem (Eds.) Evolution challenges (pp. 233-269). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012);
"Designing and assessing numeracy training for journalists: Toward improving quantitative reasoning among media consumers," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Learning Sciences (with L. Rinne et al., 2008);
"The Perceived Consequences of Evolution: College Students Perceive Negative Personal and Social Impact in Evolutionary Theory," in Science Education (with S. Brem et al., 2003);
"Education," in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (with T. Shimoda, 1999); and
"Toward an Integration of the Social and Scientific: Observing, Modeling, and Promoting the Explanatory Coherence of Reasoning" (with P. Schank), in Connectionist and PDP Models of Social Reasoning (1998).
For a sample of publications, click "morenumerate.org/publications.html" below (or go to convinceme.com and click the "publications" link toward the page's top).
Some Additonal Recent Writings:
Clark, D., Ranney, M.A., & Felipe, J. (2013). Knowledge helps: Mechanistic information and numeric evidence as cognitive levers to overcome stasis and build public consensus on climate change. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2070-2075). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ranney, M.A., Clark, D., Reinholz, D., & Cohen, S. (2012). Changing global warming beliefs with scientific information: Knowledge, attitudes, and RTMD (Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny theory). In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2228-2233). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ranney, M.A., & Thanukos, A. (2011). Accepting evolution or creation in people, critters, plants, and classrooms: The maelstrom of American cognition about biological change. In R. S. Taylor & M. Ferrari (Eds.) Epistemology and science education: Understanding the evolution vs. intelligent design controversy(pp. 143-172). New York: Routledge
Clark, D., & Ranney, M.A. (2010). Known knowns and unknown knowns: Multiple memory routes to improved numerical estimation. In K. Gomez, L. Lyons, & J. Radinsky (Eds.), Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Volume 1-Full Papers (pp. 460-467). International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.
