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2026

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D-Index
52
Citations
12673
World Ranking
4946
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Yvonne Barnes-Holmes is affiliated with Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd in Ireland. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of psychology, with significant contributions to subfields such as clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and applied psychology.

The scientist has produced work centered on several main topics, including behavioral and psychological studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychotherapy techniques and applications, autism spectrum disorder research, child and animal learning development, counseling practices and supervision, and cultural differences and values.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their academic output. These include:

  • "Updating RFT (More Field than Frame) and its Implications for Process-based Therapy" (2020) published in The Psychological Record
  • "The Study of Rule-Governed Behavior and Derived Stimulus Relations: Bridging the Gap" (2020) published in Perspectives on Behavior Science
  • "Exploring the potential impact of relational coherence on persistent rule-following: The first study" (2020) published in Learning & Behavior
  • "A Functional Contextual Account of Background Knowledge in Categorization: Implications for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognitive Accounts of General Knowledge" (2022) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Exploring the impact of coherence (through the presence versus absence of feedback) and levels of derivation on persistent rule-following" (2020) published in Learning & Behavior

Frequent co-authors have included:

  • Ciara McEnteggart
  • Dermot Barnes-Holmes
  • Colin Harte
  • Bryan Roche
  • Veronica Cullinan

The researcher's publications have appeared in various academic journals and venues. Notably, they have contributed multiple papers to The Psychological Record, as well as articles published in Learning & Behavior, Perspectives on Behavior Science, Frontiers in Psychology, and Perspectivas em Análise do Comportamento.

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

  • Do You Really Know What You Believe? Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Direct Measure of Implicit Beliefs

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Eilish Hayden;Rebecca Milne

  • A Sketch of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Relational Elaboration and Coherence (REC) Model.

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart;Shawn Boles

  • Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

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  • Relational frame theory and Skinner’s Verbal Behavior : A possible synthesis

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Veronica Cullinan

  • Perspective-Taking as Relational Responding: A Developmental Profile

    Louise McHugh;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Derived relational responding : applications for learners with autism and other developmental disabilities : a progressive guide to change

    Ruth Anne Rehfeldt;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

  • Establishing Relational Responding in Accordance with More-than and Less-than as Generalized Operant Behavior in Young Children

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Paul Strand

  • Perspective-Taking and Theory of Mind: A Relational Frame Account.

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Louise McHugh;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Using the Implicit Association Test and the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to Measure Attitudes Toward Meat and Vegetables in Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Louise Murtagh;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Psychopathology

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Louise McHugh;Steven C. Hayes

  • Acceptance versus distraction: brief instructions, metaphors and exercises in increasing tolerance for self-delivered electric shocks.

    Jenny McMullen;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • Derived manding in children with autism : Synthesizing Skinner's verbal behavior with relational frame theory

    Carol Murphy;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

  • Testing the Fake-ability of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP): The First Study

    Ian M. McKenna;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • Derived Stimulus Relations, Semantic Priming, and Event-Related Potentials: Testing a Behavioral Theory of Semantic Networks

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Carmel Staunton;Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

  • Explaining Complex Behavior: Two Perspectives on the Concept of Generalized Operant Classes

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

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

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

  • The implicit relational assessment procedure (irap) as a response-time and event-related-potentials methodology for testing natural verbal relations: a preliminary study

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Eilish Hayden;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Measure of Implicit Relative Preferences: A First Study

    Patricia M. Power;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • A FIRST TEST OF THE IMPLICIT RELATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE AS A MEASURE OF SELF-ESTEEM: IRISH PRISONER GROUPS AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

    Nigel A. Vahey;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: Exploring the Impact of Private Versus Public Contexts and the Response Latency Criterion on Pro-White and Anti-Black Stereotyping Among White Irish Individuals

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Aisling Murphy;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Dermot Barnes-Holmes University of Ulster
Paul M. Smeets
Paul M. Smeets Leiden University
Louise McHugh
Louise McHugh University College Dublin
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Bryan Roche
Bryan Roche National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada Reno
Frank W. Bond
Frank W. Bond Goldsmiths University of London
Kelly G. Wilson
Kelly G. Wilson University of Mississippi

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