A5010808067- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Educational Outcomes and Influences
- Family and Disability Support Research
University of Ulster
2025
Dundalk Institute of Technology
2024
Ghent University Hospital
2016-2022
Ghent University
2015-2022
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
2007-2016
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2005-2014
National University of Ireland
2003-2013
Swansea University
2005
University College Dublin
2005
Leiden University
2005
Researchers have proposed that the cognitive distortions of sexual offenders are underpinned by a number implicit processes termed theories. Until recently, however, theory hypothesis has received little empirical support due to broader limitations with standard forensic assessment procedures. The current research aimed determine whether new methodology, Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP), could provide further evidence for Ward and Keenan's (1999) children as beings theory....
Two measures of implicit attitudes, the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and Association Test (IAT), were compared with each other a measure explicit attitudes in assessment pro-slim/anti-fat bias. Results from both tests indicated higher levels bias than revealed by measure. The IRAP data suggested that it was participants’ pro-slim rather anti-fat bias, which driving this effect. Explicit feelings towards overweight significant predictors behavioural intentions offering...
Background: Psychosocial interventions for substance dependence have demonstrated efficacy. However, the mechanisms by which specific intervention strategies exert their effect not been clearly identified. Objective: This study investigated prospective relationships between two psychological processes, an attentional bias toward cocaine stimuli and beliefs about consequences of use, treatment outcome. Method: Twenty-five cocaine-dependent participants enrolled in a 6-month outpatient program...
Although depression is characterised by low self-esteem as measured questionnaires, research using implicit measures of has failed to reveal the expected differences between depressed and non-depressed individuals. In this study, we used an measure which enables differentiation ideal self- actual self-esteem, through introduction propositions: "I am" versus want be". We relational associations about self in (N=27) high dysphoric (N=29) undergraduates. Our data revealed that individuals have...
The major aim of the present study was to demonstrate that derived relational responding may be viewed as a form generalized operant behavior. In Experiment 1, 4 subjects were divided into two conditions (2 in each condition). Using two‐comparison matching‐to‐sample procedure, all trained and tested for formation combinatorially entailed relations. Subjects across multiple stimulus sets. Each set composed novel stimuli. Both Conditions 1 2 involved explicit performance‐contingent feedback...
Cognitive perspective-taking has attracted considerable attention in the mainstream developmental literature, and is most commonly studied under rubric of Theory Mind. The current article reviews levels understanding informational states that are believed to underlie cognitive from this conceptual framework. An alternative approach a functional behavioral framework also presented. concepts methodologies behind driven by modern account human language cognition known as Relational Frame...