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Overview

Bryan Roche is affiliated with the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Their research primarily falls within the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work covers several main topics, including behavioral and psychological studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. They have also contributed to autism spectrum disorder research, social and intergroup psychology, multiple sclerosis research studies, as well as mindfulness and compassion interventions.

Bryan Roche's recent scholarly contributions include papers published in well-known venues. These include:

  • ACT: A Process-Based Therapy in Search of a Process (2022), Behavior Therapy
  • A Process-Based Analysis of Cognitive Defusion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2022), Behavior Therapy
  • Effectiveness of Different Training and Testing Parameters on the Formation and Maintenance of Equivalence Classes: Investigating Prejudiced Racial Attitudes (2020), The Psychological Record
  • A Comparison of Ultra-Brief Cognitive Defusion and Positive Affirmation Interventions on the Reduction of Public Speaking Anxiety (2020), The Psychological Record
  • Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviours reduces generalised avoidance in new contexts (2020), Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Bryan Roche collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors. The most frequent include:

  • Dermot Barnes-Holmes
  • Steven C. Hayes
  • J. David Cummins
  • Nima Moghaddam
  • Rupert Burge

Their publications appear predominantly in several academic journals and venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • The Psychological Record
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Perspectives on Behavior Science
  • Behavioural Processes

In addition to journal articles, Bryan Roche has authored books, including a publication by ABA España eBooks titled Teoría del marco relacional: Un enfoque postskinneriano de la cognición y el lenguaje humanos (2021).

Best Publications

  • Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account Of Human Language And Cognition

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Steven C. Hayes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche

  • Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research

    Simon Dymond;Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Bram Vervliet;Bryan Roche

  • The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance: Concerns over discriminant validity

    Ian Tyndall;Daniel Waldeck;Luca Pancani;Robert Whelan

  • A TRANSFORMATION OF RESPONDENTLY CONDITIONED STIMULUS FUNCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARBITRARILY APPLICABLE RELATIONS

    Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes

  • A contemporary behavior analysis of anxiety and avoidance

    Simon Dymond;Bryan Roche

  • A Relational Frame Training Intervention to Raise Intelligence Quotients: A Pilot Study

    Sarah Cassidy;Bryan Roche;Bryan Roche;Steven C. Hayes;Steven C. Hayes

  • Understanding and Verbal Regulation

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Denis O;Bryan Roche

  • Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding and Sexual Categorization: A Critical Test of the Derived Difference Relation

    Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes

  • DERIVED RELATIONAL NETWORKS AND CONTROL BY NOVEL INSTRUCTIONS: A POSSIBLE MODEL OF GENERATIVE VERBAL RESPONDING

    Denis O'Hora;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Transfer of Functions and a Conditional Transfer of Functions through Equivalence Relations in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children

    Dermot Barnes;Mary Browne;Paul Smeets;Bryan Roche

  • Contextual Control over the Derived Transformation of Discriminative and Sexual Arousal Functions

    Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Functional-Analytic Model of Analogy Using the Relational Evaluation Procedure

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche

  • Advances in relational frame theory : research & application

    Simon Dymond;Bryan Roche

  • Exemplar Training and a Derived Transformation of Function in Accordance with Symmetry

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • Response Latencies to Multiple Derived Stimulus Relations: Testing Two Predictions of Relational Frame Theory

    Denis O'Hora;Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Safe From Harm: Learned, Instructed, and Symbolic Generalization Pathways of Human Threat-Avoidance

    Simon Dymond;Michael W. Schlund;Michael W. Schlund;Michael W. Schlund;Bryan Roche;Jan De Houwer

  • Generating Derived Relational Networks Via The Abstraction of Common Physical Properties: A Possible Model of Analogical Reasoning

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A functional-analytic model of analogy: a relational frame analysis.

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M Smeets

  • The Spread of Fear: Symbolic Generalization Mediates Graded Threat-Avoidance in Specific Phobia:

    Simon Dymond;Michael W. Schlund;Bryan Roche;Robert Whelan

  • Derived Avoidance Learning: Transformation of Avoidance Response Functions in Accordance with Same and Opposite Relational Frames

    Simon Dymond;Bryan Roche;John P. Forsyth;Robert Whelan

  • A relational frame skills training intervention to increase general intelligence and scholastic aptitude

    Sarah Cassidy;Bryan Roche;Dylan Colbert;Ian Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Dermot Barnes-Holmes University of Ulster
Paul M. Smeets
Paul M. Smeets Leiden University
Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada Reno
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd
Jonathan W. Kanter
Jonathan W. Kanter University of Washington
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
John P. Forsyth
John P. Forsyth University at Albany, State University of New York
Jack E. James
Jack E. James Reykjavík University
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven

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