• Creating composites as evidence based research into an approach to counselling therapy (the experience of the propeller model approach) 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences, 2022-05-12)

  As a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Sofia University in Bulgaria, who is a practicing Counselling Therapist with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, it ...

• Therapist awareness of client reduction of self: a daseinanalytic approach 

  Stevenson, Kevin (2022-04-24)

  Program: Heidegger and the Neuroscience

• “It’s wrong but I can’t explain why!” Moral dumbfounding and moral judgement: how failure to justify moral judgements can inform our understanding of how they are made 

  McHugh, Cillian (2024-10-17)

  Moral dumbfounding occurs when people fail to justify a strongly held moral judgement with supporting reasons. The discovery of moral dumbfounding coincided with a growth in intuitionist and dual-process theories of moral ...

• An introduction to local and global health behaviors using a Collaborative Online International Learning exchange 

  Higgins, Niamh; Smith, Lisa (University of Groningen Press, 2023-11)

  Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) uses technology to facilitate the engagement of students from different countries in collaborative coursework and sharing of cultural perspectives. This practice paper ...

• Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective 

  Beatty, Chloé (2023-10-23)

  The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ...

• Social support, social participation, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in the midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study (Pre-published) 

  Creaven, Ann-Marie; Higgins, Niamh; Ginty, Annie; Gallagher, Stephen (Elsevier, 2020-06-26)

  This study tested two hypotheses of associations between dimensions of social connectedness and cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress: (1) high social support predicts diminished cardiovascular responses to stress ...

• T-REX- the teachers’ research exchange. Overcoming the research-practice gap in education (Pre-published) 

  McGann, Marek; Ryan, Marie; McMahon, Jennifer; Hall, Tony (Springer, 2020-04-19)

  This paper introduces the Teachers Research Exchange (T-REX), an online community of practice that is currently being deployed on a pilot basis nationwide in Ireland as a response to the research-practice gap . The system ...

• Two kinds of theory- what psychology can learn from Einstein (Pre-published) 

  McGann, Marek; Speelman, Craig P. (SAGE Publications, 2020-04-24)

  A century ago, Einstein distinguished between two kinds of theory—theories of principle and constructive theories. These have separate but complementary roles to play in the advancement of knowledge, in the manner in which ...

• Convergently emergent- ecological and enactive approaches to the texture of agency (Pre-published) 

  McGann, Marek (Frontiers Media, 2020-08-07)

  Enactive and ecological approaches to cognitive science both claim a “mutuality” between agents and their environments – that they have a complementary nature and should be addressed as a single whole system. Despite this ...

• Screen-time versus screen type: The impact of screen engagement on cognitive development in Irish 5 year olds 

  Egan, Suzanne M.; Beatty, Chloé (ESRI [Economic & Social Research Institute], 2018)

• Perspectives of applied collaborative sport science research within professional team sports (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; Malone, James J.; Harper, Liam D.; Jones, Ben; Barnes, Chris; Towlson, Chris (Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2018)

  The purpose of the study was to examine the perspectives of both academics and practitioners in relation to forming applied collaborative sport science research within team sports. Ninety-three participants who had previously ...

• Thinking aloud: An exploration of cognitions in professional snooker (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; Welsh, James C.; Dewhurst, Stephen A. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Objectives: Presently, there is no exploration into the cognitive processes of super-elite and elite professional snooker players during real-time performance. Therefore, this study explored the cognitions of seven ...

• A personalised exercise programme for individuals with lower limb amputation reduces falls and improves gait biomechanics: A block randomised controlled trial (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; Schafer, Zoe A.; Vanicek, Natalie (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Lower limb amputees (LLAs) are at increased risk of falling due to the inherent asymmetry resulting from their limb loss, muscle weakness and other neuro-musculoskeletal limitations. Research question: The aim ...

• Predicting cooperation in competitive conditions: The role of sportspersonship, moral competence, and emotional intelligence (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; Clough, Peter J. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine the predictive capabilities of sportspersonship, moral competence, and emotional intelligence on cooperation in varying competitive conditions.Design: An experimental ...

• Adolescents consider the future differently depending on the domain in question: Results of an exploratory study in the United Kingdom (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Cole, Jon.C.; Magee, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2017)

  The study of Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) construct has increased substantively in recent years. Underlying these developments is the presumption that consideration of the future is uniform across all domains, ...

• Sources of sport confidence, imagery type and performance among competitive athletes: The mediating role of sports confidence (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; Levy, Andrew R.; Nicholls, Adam R.; Larkin, Derek; Davies, Jean (Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2015)

  Aim. This study explored the mediating role of sport confidence upon (1) sources of sport confidence- performance relationship and (2) imagery- performance relationship. Methods. Participants were 157 competitive athletes ...

• Psychological approaches to enhancing fair play (Pre-published version) 

  Perry, John; Clough, Peter J.; Crust, Lee (Nova Science Publishers, 2013)

  This article reviews approaches to studying sportspersonship, moral behavior in sport and broader morality theory to offer practical strategies to enhance fair play. By identifying stages and levels of morality and reviewing ...

• Enaction and psychology (pre-published version) 

  McGann, Marek; De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (American Psychological Association (APA), 2013)

  The enactive approach to cognitive science aims to provide an account of the mind that is both naturalistic and nonreductive. Psychological activity is viewed not as occurring within the individual organism but in the ...

• Doing it and meaning it (and the relationship between the two) (pre-published version) 

  McGann, Marek (John Benjamins, 2005)

  A number of related approaches to cognition and consciousness have been gaining momentum in the literature in recent years, emphasizing the active, embodied nature of the mind and grounding mental states and processes in ...

• Loud crisis, quiet crisis: Varela’s proposal resonates in contemporary psychological science 

  McGann, Marek (Constructivist Foundations, 2017)

  Open peer commentary on the article “Varela’s Radical Proposal: How to Embody and Open Up Cognitive Science” by Kristian Moltke Martiny. Upshot: Varela’s proposal that science should be open to the phenomena of experience ...

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