Nursing and Human Sciences

Biographical Details:

Dr Sinéad Smyth (BA Hons Psychology, PhD., PGCHEP) is a lecturer in psychology at the School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University.

Research Interests:

Sinéad's research interests are in the area of experimental behaviour analysis and include investigation of language and learning, anxiety, implicit attitudes as well as the application of behaviour analysis in educational and community settings.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Hyland, J., O¿Hora, D., Leslie, J. & Smyth S. 2012. Sequential responding in accordance with temporal relational cues: A comparison of `Before¿ and `After¿ cues. The Psychological Record, 62,, pp463-484.
• Brysbaert, M. & Smyth, S. 2011. Self-enhancement in scientific research: The self-citation bias. Psychological Belgica, 51, 2, pp129-137-.
• Derakshan, N., Smyth, S., & Eysenck, M.W.. 2009. Effects of state anxiety on task-switching: An investigation of attentional control theory. Psychonomic Bulletin And Review, 16, 6, pp1112-1117.
• Smyth S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Barnes-Holmes, Y. 2008. Acquired equivalence in human discrimination learning: Mediated generalization and verbal processes. Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 1, pp167-177.
• O¿Toole, C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Smyth, S.. 2007. A derived transfer of functions and the implicit association test. Journal Of The Experimental Analysis Of Behaviour, 88, 2, pp263-283.
• Smyth, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Forsyth, J. P.. 2006. A Derived Transfer of Simple Discrimination and Self-reported anxiety functions in spider fearful and non-spider fearful participants.. Journal Of The Experimental Analysis Of Behaviour, 85, 2, pp223-246.

• Kristen A. Maglieri, Rita Honan, Maeve Bracken, Claire E. McDowell, & Sinéad Smyth. , Challenges and Opportunities for Graduate Training in ABA in Ireland. , Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis (International) , - , Pheonix, Arizona, May 2009
• Georgia Dalto, Sinéad Smyth & Maurice Stringer. , A Behavior Analytic Investigation of Interpretive Bias: The effects of modelling. , ABAI International Conference , - , in Oslo, August 2009
• John M Hyland, Denis P. O' Hora, Julian C. Leslie, & Sinéad Smyth. , Syntactic bootstrapping and sequential responding: The acquisition of novel stimulus functions through syntactic exclusion. , Conference of the European Behaviour Analysis Group, - , London, April 2009
• Karen Costello & Sinéad Smyth. , Group contingencies to increase School and project attendance among inner-city adolescents. , Conference of the Division of Behaviour Analysis , - , Dublin, April 2012
• Ronda Barron & Sinéad Smyth. , The use of matching-to-sample to teach real world object categorisation in preschool children with ASD. , Conference of the European Behaviour Analysis Group , - , London, April 2011.
• Georgia Dalto & Sinéad Smyth. , Is Fear Contagious? The Effect of Modelling on the Acquisition of Negative Interpretive Bias. , Annual Conference for the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Psychological Society (NIBPS), - , Belfast, April 2009
• Bernadette Kirkpatrick, Julian Leslie, Claire McDowell & Sinéad Smyth. , Preliminary investigations into the utility of the IRAP as an implicit measurement of body image dissatisfaction. ., Conference of the Division of Behaviour Analysis, - , Dublin, April 2012
• Ronda Barron & Sinéad Smyth. , Using a matching-to-sample procedure to teach real-world object categorisation in preschool children with ASD. , Conference of the Division of Behaviour Analysis , - , Dublin, April 2011.
• Andrea Deering, David Shaw & Sinéad Smyth. , Using SMS messaging to increase physiotherapy exercise compliance between sessions. , onference of the European Behaviour Analysis Group , - , London, April 2011.
• John M Hyland, Denis P. O'Hora, Sinéad Smyth, & Julian C. Leslie. , The effect of Before and After instructions on the latency and accuracy of sequential responding. , Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis (International) , - , Pheonix, Arizona, May 2009.
• Andrea Deering, David Shaw & Sinéad Smyth. , Comparing the efficacy of SMS text message prompts and self-graphing to increase Physiotherapy Exercise Compliance between Sessions. , Conference of the Division of Behaviour Analysis, - , Dublin, April 2011.