Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Sokolowski, H., Yeung, R., Yu, J., Fan, C., Daker, R., Lyons, I., Zeman, A., Abdi, H., Levine, B. (2026). Visual imagery and STEM occupational attainment: Gender matters. Personality and Individual Differences.

  • Daker, R., Rojas, M., Rakhimov, R., Heffner, K., Paine, N., Cacciola, K., Hanson, C., Upritchard, J. (2025). Using social norms to reduce plate waste in corporate dining. Scientific Reports.

  • Amoukhteh, S., Hartley, I., Daker, R., Green, A., Viskontas, I. (2025). Stopping Short: Gender Differences in Creativity Anxiety Predict Fluency but Not Originality in Creative Performance. Creativity Research Journal.

  • Grabowska, A., Daker, R., Ho, K., & Lyons, I. (2025). An integrated approach to understanding negative math experiences. Psychological Research.

  • Martell, R., Daker, R., Sokolowski, H., Ansari,, & Lyons, I. (2025). Implications of neural integration of math and spatial experiences for math ability and math anxiety. Psychological Research.

  • Xiang, S., Li, Y., Daker, R., Li., Y, Guo, X., Lei, W., Hu, W. (2025). Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking. Creativity Research Journal.

  • Fioriti, C., Martell, R., Daker, R., Malone, E., Sokolowski, H., Green, A., Levine, S., Maloney, E., Ramirez, G., & Lyons, I. (2024). Examining the interplay between the cognitive and emotional aspects of gender differences in spatial processing. Journal of Intelligence.

  • Daker, R., Challamel, G., Hanson, C., & Upritchard, J. (2024). Cultivating Healthier Habits: The Impact of Workplace Teaching Kitchens on Employee Food Literacy. Nutrients.

  • Delage, V., Daker, R., Trudel, G., Lyons, I., & Maloney, E. (2024). It is a “small world”: Relations between performance on five spatial tasks and five mathematical tasks in undergraduate students. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.

  • Daker, R., Viskontas, I., Porter, G., Colaizzi, G., Lyons, I., Green, A. (2023). Investigating Links Between Creativity Anxiety, Creative Performance, and State-level Anxiety and Effort During Creative Thinking. Scientific Reports.

  • Cortes, R., Peña, M., Daker, R., Colaizzi, G., Green, A. (2023). Evidence for an Asymmetric Switch Cost in State Creativity. Creativity Research Journal. 

  • Daker, R., Gattas, S., Necka, E., Green, A., Lyons, I. (2023). Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math? Nature Partner Journal: Science of Learning. 

  • Daker, R., Slipenkyj, M., Green, A., Lyons, I. (2023). Evidence for avoidance tendencies linked to anxiety about specific types of thinking. Scientific Reports.

  • Cortes, R., Peterson, E., Kraemer, D., Kolvoord, R., Uttal, D., Dinh, N., Weinberger, A., Daker, R., Lyons, I., Goldman, D., Green, A. (2022). Transfer from Spatial Education to Verbal Reasoning and Prediction of Transfer from Classroom-Based Neural Change. Science Advances.

  • Daker, R., Delage, V., Maloney, E., Lyons, I. (2022). Testing the specificity of links between anxiety and performance within the domains of mathematics and spatial reasoning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

  • Daker, R.*, Colaizzi, G.*, Mastrogiannis, A., Sherr, M., Lyons, I., Green, A. (2022). Predictive Effects of Creative Abilities and Attitudes on Performance in University-Level Computer Science Courses. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. * Shared first authorship

  • Daker, R., Gattas, S., Sokolowski, H., Green, A., Lyons, I. (2021). First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability. Nature Partner Journal: Science of Learning.

  • Ren, Z.*, Daker, R.*, Shi, L.*, Sun, J., Beaty, R., Wu, X., Chen, Q., Yang, W., Lyons, I., Green, A., Qiu, J. (2021). Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Creativity Anxiety.  NeuroImage. * Shared first authorship

  • Daker, R., Cortes, R., Lyons, I., Green, A. (2020). Creativity anxiety: Evidence for anxiety that is specific to creative thinking, from STEM to the arts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

  • Cortes, R., Weinberger, A., Daker, R., Green, A. (2019). Re-examining prominent measures of divergent and convergent creativity. Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences.

  • Daker, R., Lyons, I. (2018). Numerical and Non-numerical Predictors of First Graders’ Number-Line Estimation Ability. Frontiers in Psychology.