Dermot Barnes-Holmes

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Dermot Barnes-Holmes (born 1963) [1] is a Professor of psychology at the School of Psychology, Ulster University [2] and was Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is known for an analysis of human language and cognition through the development of Relational Frame Theory with Steven C. Hayes, and its application in various psychological settings. He was the world's most prolific author in the experimental analysis of human behaviour between the years 1980 and 1999. [3] He was awarded the Don Hake Basic/Applied Research Award at the 2012 American Psychological Association Conference in Orlando, Florida. He is a past president and fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, is a recipient of the Quad-L Lecture Award from the University of New Mexico and most recently became an Odysseus laureate of the Flemish Science Foundation and a fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. In 2015 he accepted a life-time senior professorship at Ghent University in Belgium. He originally conceptualized and programmed the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP).

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IRAP

The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) [4] is an implicit measure similar to the Implicit Association Test (IAT), with the key difference being that it measures specific relations between stimuli rather than general associations. It has its theoretical basis in Relational Frame Theory. [5]

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  1. "behavioranalysishistory / Barnes-Holmes, Dermot". behavioranalysishistory.pbworks.com. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  2. "Dermot Barnes-Holmes". www.ulster.ac.uk. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  3. Dymond, S (2002). "The next generation: Authorship trends in the experimental analysis of human behavior (1980-1999)". Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin. 20: 1–7.
  4. Dawson, D.L.; Barnes-Holmes, D.; Gresswell, D.M.; Hart, A.J.; Gore, N.J. (2009). "Assessing the Implicit Beliefs of Sexual Offenders Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: A First Study". Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 21: 57–75. doi:10.1177/1079063208326928.
  5. Barnes-Holmes, D.; Barnes-Holmes, Y.; Power, P.; Hayden, E.; Milne, R.; Stewart, I. (2006). "Do you really know what you believe? Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a direct measure of implicit beliefs". The Irish Psychologist. 32: 169–177.