Prof Bryan Roche

Psychology, ALL Institute

Professor

John Hume Building
SF18
(01) 708 6026

Biography

Professor Bryan Roche has been a member of academic staff at MU since 2000.  His early work was on the development of Relational Frame Theory, a post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition, the first text for which has been cited over 4000 times in the academic literature.  He is author of over 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters.  Dr. Roche has developed an online intervention, based on Relational Frame Theory, that is the only intervention currently known by psychologists to increase IQ by clinically significant degrees (around 15 points) for many or most users.  This method is known as SMART (Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training), and is offered online by the MU campus company RaiseYourIQ.com of which Dr. Roche is a co-director.  Dr. Roche also conducts research into fear and avoidance as part of wider interest in anxiety, and has developed a new implicit test, built from first learning principles, called the FAST (Function Acquisition Speed Test), also available online as a test and in modified form as a therapeutic intervention to  enhance psychological flexibility in the context of troubling emotional issues.   Dr. Roche recently received an honorary doctrate (Doctor of Psychology) for his collaborative work with Chichester University, UK.

Research Interests

Behavior analysis. Fear conditioning and avoidance.   The development of behavior-analytic "implicit tests". Interventions to enhance intellectual skills. Relational Frame Theory.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Daniel A. Assaz, Ian Tyndall, Claudia K.B. Oshiro, Bryan Roche (2023) 'A Process-Based Analysis of Cognitive Defusion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy'. Behavior Therapy, 6 (54):1020-1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2022.06.003
2023 McLoughlin, S.; Roche, B.T. (2023) 'ACT: A Process-Based Therapy in Search of a Process'. Behavior Therapy, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Aideen Watters, Jamie Cummins, Bryan Roche (2023) 'How to Build and How not to Build an Implicit Measure in Behavior Analysis: A case Study Using the Function Acquisition Speed Test'. Perspectives On Behavior Science, 46 :459-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-023-00387-w
2023 Roche, B.; Cummins, J.; Cassidy, S.; Dillon, A.; Moore, L.; Grey, I. (2023) 'The effect of SMART relational skills training on intelligence quotients: Controlling for individual differences in attentional skills and baseline IQ'. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 28 . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Golijani-Moghaddam N.; Dawson D.L.; Evangelou N.; Turton J.; Hawton A.; Law G.R.; Roche B.; Rowan E.; Burge R.; Frost A.C.; das Nair R. (2022) 'Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training (SMART) in multiple sclerosis (MS): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial'. Pilot And Feasibility Studies, 8 (1). [DOI]
2022 Assaz D.A.; Tyndall I.; Oshiro C.K.B.; Roche B. (2022) 'A Process-Based Analysis of Cognitive Defusion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy'. Behavior Therapy, . [DOI]
2021 Brandrick, C; Hooper, N; Roche, B; Kanter, J; Tyndall, I (2021) 'A Comparison of Ultra-Brief Cognitive Defusion and Positive Affirmation Interventions on the Reduction of Public Speaking Anxiety'. Psychological Record, 71 :109-117. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Mizael, TM; de Almeida, JH; Roche, B; de Rose, JC (2021) 'Effectiveness of Different Training and Testing Parameters on the Formation and Maintenance of Equivalence Classes: Investigating Prejudiced Racial Attitudes'. Psychological Record, 71 :265-277. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Jacobsen, HB; Klungsoyr, O; Landro, NI; Stiles, TC; Roche, BT (2020) 'MINDflex Training for Cognitive Flexibility in Chronic Pain: A Randomized, Controlled Cross-Over Trial'. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Murphy R.; Murphy C.; Kelly M.; Roche B. (2020) 'Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to Examine Implicit Beauty Bias in the Context of Employability'. Psychological Record, 71 :423-433. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Bennett MP; Roche B; Dymond S; Baeyens F; Vervliet B; Hermans D; (2020) 'Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviours reduces generalised avoidance in new contexts'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73 (12). [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Cummins J.; Roche B. (2020) 'Measuring differential nodal distance using the function acquisition speed test'. Behavioural Processes, 178 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Tyndall, I., Waldeck, D., Pancani, L., Roche, B & Pereira, A (2019) 'Profiles of Psychological Flexibility: A latent class analysis of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy model'. Behavior Modification, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Colbert D.; Malone A.; Barrett S.; Roche B. (2019) 'The Relational Abilities Index+: Initial Validation of a Functionally Understood Proxy Measure for Intelligence'. Perspectives On Behavior Science, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Cummins J.; Tyndall I.; Curtis A.; Roche B. (2019) 'The Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) as a Measure of Verbal Stimulus Relations in the Context of Condom Use'. Psychological Record, 69 (1):107-115. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Stewart I.; Dymond S.; Roche B. (2019) 'Analysis of apparent demonstrations of responding in accordance with relational frames of sameness and opposition by Alonso-Alvarez and Perez-Gonzalez (2018): A rejoinder'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Tyndall, I., Waldeck, D., Whelan, R., Roche, B. & Dawson, D (2019) 'The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance: Concerns over discriminant validity'. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12 :278-284. [Full-Text]
2018 Amd M.; Roche B. (2018) 'Assessing the Effects of a Relational Training Intervention on Fluid Intelligence Among a Sample of Socially Disadvantaged Children in Bangladesh'. Psychological Record, 68 (2):141-149. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Dymond S.; Bennett M.; Boyle S.; Roche B.; Schlund M. (2018) 'Related to Anxiety: Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding and Experimental Psychopathology Research on Fear and Avoidance'. Perspectives On Behavior Science, 41 (1):189-213. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Assaz D.; Roche B.; Kanter J.; Oshiro C. (2018) 'Cognitive Defusion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: What Are the Basic Processes of Change?'. Psychological Record, 68 (4):405-418. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Cummins J.; Roche B.; Tyndall I.; Cartwright A. (2018) 'The relationship between differential stimulus relatedness and implicit measure effect sizes'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 110 (1):24-38. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Colbert D.; Tyndall I.; Roche B.; Cassidy S. (2018) 'Can SMART Training Really Increase Intelligence? A Replication Study'. Journal of Behavioral Education, :1-23. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Cartwright A.; Hussey I.; Roche B.; Dunne J.; Muphy C. (2017) 'An Investigation into the Relationship between the Gender Binary and Occupational Discrimination Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure'. Psychological Record, 67 (1):121-130. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Amd M.; Roche B. (2017) 'Transforming valences through transitive inference: How are faces emotionally dissonant?'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (12):2478-2496. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Tyndall I.; Papworth R.; Roche B.; Bennett M. (2017) 'Differential Effects of Word-Repetition Rate on Cognitive Defusion of Believability and Discomfort of Negative Self-Referential Thoughts Postintervention and at One-Month Follow-Up'. Psychological Record, 67 (3):377-386. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Colbert D.; Dobutowitsch M.; Roche B.; Brophy C. (2017) 'The proxy-measurement of intelligence quotients using a relational skills abilities index'. Learning and Individual Differences, 57 :114-122. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Boyle, S; Roche, B; Dymond, S; Hermans, D (2016) 'Generalisation of fear and avoidance along a semantic continuum'. Cognition and Emotion, 30 :340-352. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Cartwright A.; Roche B.; Gogarty M.; O’Reilly A.; Stewart I. (2016) 'Using a Modified Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) for Assessing Implicit Gender Stereotypes'. Psychological Record, 66 (2):223-233. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Cassidy S.; Roche B.; Colbert D.; Stewart I.; Grey I. (2016) 'A relational frame skills training intervention to increase general intelligence and scholastic aptitude'. Learning and Individual Differences, 47 :222-235. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Amd M.; Roche B. (2016) 'A derived transformation of emotional functions using self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetries'. Learning and Behavior, 44 (2):175-190. [DOI]
2016 Tyndall, I., Howe, B., & Roche, B. (2016) 'Exposure to progressive muscle Relaxation leads to enhanced performance on derived relational responding tasks'. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD, Accepted . [Full-Text]
2015 Cameron, G; Roche, B; Schlund, MW; Dymond, S (2015) 'Learned, instructed and observed pathways to fear and avoidance'. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50 :106-112. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Greville, WJ; Dymond, S; Newton, PM; Roche, B (2014) 'Acquired equivalence and generalized suppression in a virtual reality environment'. Learning and Behavior, 42 :123-130. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Dymond, S., Dunsmoor, J., Vervliet, B., Roche, B. & Hermans, D (2014) 'Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research'. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH AND THERAPY, 46 :561-582. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Dymond, S; Schlund, MW; Roche, B; Whelan, R (2014) 'The spread of fear: Symbolic generalization mediates graded threat-avoidance in specific phobia'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67 :247-259. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Greville, J. W., Newton, P. M., Roche, B. & Dymond, S. (2013) 'Conditioned suppression in a virtual environment first-person-perspective video game'. Computers in Human Behavior, 29 :552-558. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 O'Reilly, A; Roche, B; Gavin, A; Ruiz, MR; Ryan, A; Campion, G (2013) 'A FUNCTION ACQUISITION SPEED TEST FOR EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS (FASTER)'. Psychological Record, 63 :707-724. [Full-Text]
2012 Gavin, A., Roche, B., Ruiz, M. R. & Hogan, M., & OReilly, A. (2012) 'A behavior-analytically modified Implicit Association Test for measuring the sexual categorization of children'. Psychological Record, 62 :55-68. [Full-Text]
2012 O'Reilly, A; Roche, B; Ruiz, M; Tyndall, I; Gavin, A (2012) 'THE FUNCTION ACQUISITION SPEED TEST (FAST): A BEHAVIOR ANALYTIC IMPLICIT TEST FOR ASSESSING STIMULUS RELATIONS'. Psychological Record, 62 :507-528. [Full-Text]
2012 Roche, B., & O'Reilly, A., Gavin, A., Ruiz, M. R. & Arancibia, G. (2012) 'Using behavior-analytic implicit tests to assess sexual interests among normal and sex-offender populations. SOCIO-AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY'. 2 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2012 Dymond, S; Schlund, MW; Roche, B; De Houwer, J; Freegard, GP (2012) 'Safe From Harm: Learned, Instructed, and Symbolic Generalization Pathways of Human Threat-Avoidance'. PLoS ONE, 7 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Dymond, S., Schlund, M., Roche, B., Whelan, R., Richards, J., & Davies, C. (2011) 'Symbolic generalization in human avoidance learning'. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH AND THERAPY, 49 :614-621. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Roche B. (2011) 'Murray Sidman: The Accidental Philosopher'. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 12 (1):335-337. [DOI]
2011 Gannon, S; Roche, B; Kanter, JW; Forsyth, JP; Linehan, C (2011) 'A DERIVED RELATIONS ANALYSIS OF APPROACH AVOIDANCE CONFLICT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN ANXIETY'. Psychological Record, 61 :227-252.
2011 Dymond, S; Schlund, MW; Roche, B; Whelan, R; Richards, J; Davies, C (2011) 'Inferred threat and safety: Symbolic generalization of human avoidance learning'. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49 :614-621. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Cassidy, S., Roche, B. & Hayes, S. C. (2011) 'A relational frame training intervention to raise Intelligence Quotients: A pilot study'. Psychological Record, 61 :173-178. [Full-Text]
2010 Roche B. (2010) 'Murray sidman: The accidental philosopher'. Behavior and Philosophy, 38 :145-148. [Full-Text]
2010 Ridgeway, I., Roche, B., & Gavin, A. & Ruiz, M. R. (2010) 'Establishing and eliminating IAT effects in the laboratory: Extending a behavioral model of the Implicit Association Test'. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 11 :133-150. [Full-Text]
2010 Linehan, C., Roche, B. and Stewart, I. (2010) 'A derived relations analysis of computer gaming complexity'. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 11 . [Full-Text]
2010 Cassidy, S., Roche, B. and O'Hora, D. (2010) 'Relational Frame Theory and human intelligence'. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 12 . [Full-Text]
2010 Dymond, S & Roche, B. (2010) 'The impact of derived relational responding on gambling behavior. ANALYSIS OF GAMBLING BEHAVIOR'. 4 :38-53. [Full-Text]
2009 Tyndall, I., Roche, B and James, J. E. (2009) 'The interfering effect of emotional stimulus functions on stimulus equivalence class formation: Implications for the understanding and treatment of anxiety '. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 10 :121-140. [Full-Text]
2009 Dymond, S. & Roche, B. (2009) 'A contemporary behavioral analysis of anxiety and avoidance'. 32 :7-28. [Full-Text]
2008 Dymond, S; Roche, B; Forsyth, JP; Whelan, R; Rhoden, J (2008) 'Derived avoidance learning: Transformation of avoidance response functions in accordance with Same and Opposite relational frames'. Psychological Record, 58 :269-286. [Full-Text]
2008 Roche, B., Kanter, J. W., Brown, K., Dymond, S.,  Fogarty, C.   (2008) 'A comparison of direct versus derived extinction of avoidance'. Psychological Record, 58 :443-464.
2008 Gavin, A; Roche, B; Ruiz, MR (2008) 'Competing contingencies over derived relational responding: A behavioral model of the implicit association test'. Psychological Record, 58 :427-441. [Full-Text]
2008 Roche B.; Dymond S. (2008) 'A transformation of functions in accordance with the nonarbitrary relational properties of sexual stimuli'. Psychological Record, 58 (1):71-94. [Full-Text]
2007 Roche, B; Forsyth, JP; Maher, E (2007) 'The impact of demand characteristics on brief acceptance- and control-based interventions for pain tolerance'. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 14 :381-393. [Full-Text]
2007 Ruiz M.; Roche B. (2007) 'Values and the scientific culture of behavior analysis'. Behavior Analyst, 30 (1):1-16. [Full-Text]
2007 Dymond, S., Roche, B., Forsyth, J. P., Whelan, R. & Rhoden, J.  (2007) 'A transformation of avoidance responses in accordance with Same and Opposite relational frames'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 88 :249-262.
2006 Linehan C.; Roche B.; McLoone S.; Ward T. (2006) 'Proceedings of CGAMES 2006 - 9th International Conference on Computer Games: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Systems'. Network latency in on-line gaming: An engineering or a psychological problem?, :72-76.
2006 Lyddy, F., Roche, B.  & Ambrose. H. (2006) 'Children's Irish-English word recognition as a function of language context and language background'. The Irish Psychologist, 33 :66-67.
2005 O'Hora, D., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B, & Smeets, P. M. (2005) 'Derived relational networks as novel instructions: A possible model of generative verbal control'. Psychological Record, 54 :437-460.
2005 Dymond, S., Roche, B., & Rhefeldt, R. (2005) 'Relational Frame Theory and the transformation of stimulus functions'. REVISTA LATINAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, 37 :291-303.
2005 Roche, B., Coyle, S., Ward. T., Markham, C., McDarby, G. (2005) 'Near-infrared Spectroscopy as an instrument for the measurement of general autonomic arousal'. The Behavior Analyst Today, 6 :121-127. [Full-Text]
2004 Tyndall I.; Roche B.; James J. (2004) 'The relation between stimulus function and equivalence class formation'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 81 (3):257-266. [Full-Text]
2004 Roche, B., Linhehan, C., Ward, T., Dymond, S., & Rehfeldt, R. (2004) 'The unfolding of the relational operant: A real-time analysis using electroencephalography and reaction time measures'. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY, 4 :587-603. [Full-Text]
2004 Stewart, I; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B (2004) 'A functional-analytic model of analogy using the relational evaluation procedure'. Psychological Record, 54 :531-552. [Full-Text]
2004 O'Hora, D; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B; Smeets, P (2004) 'Derived relational networks and control by novel instructions: A possible model of generative verbal responding'. Psychological Record, 54 :437-460. [Full-Text]
2003 Roche B.; Barnes-Holmes D. (2003) 'Behavior Analysis and Social Constructionism: Some Points of Contact and Departure'. Behavior Analyst, 26 (2):215-231. [Full-Text]
2003 Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (2003) 'Behavior analysis, relational frame theory, and the challenge of human language and cognition: A reply to the commentaries on relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition'. THE ANALYSIS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR, 19 :39-54. [Full-Text]
2003 Dymond, S; Roche, B; Barnes-Holmes, D (2003) 'The continuity strategy, human behavior, and behavior analysis'. Psychological Record, 53 :333-347. [Full-Text]
2003 Roche, B., & Dymond, S. (2003) 'Computer-interfacing for dummies: Interfacing peripheral devices to your Macintosh PC'. THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BULLETIN, 21 :8-11. [Full-Text]
2003 Dixon, M. R., Dymond, S., Rehfeldt, R. A., Roche, B., Zlomke, K. R. (2003) 'Terrorism and Relational Frame Theory'. BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL ISSUES, 12 :129-147. [Full-Text]
2002 Roche, B., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Stewart, L, & O'Hora, D. (2002) 'Relational Frame Theory: A new paradigm for the analysis of social behavior'. THE BEHAVIOR ANALYST, 25 :75-91. [Full-Text]
2002 Stewart, I., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (2002) 'Developing an ecologically valid model of analogy using the relational evaluation procedure'. 20 :12-16.
2002 Roche B.; Barnes-Holmes Y.; Barnes-Holmes D.; Stewart I.; O'Hora D. (2002) 'Relational frame theory: A new paradigm for the analysis of social behavior'. Behavior Analyst, 25 (1):75-91. [Full-Text]
2002 Roche, B., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2002) 'Human sexual arousal: A modern behavioral approach'. The Behavior Analyst Today, 3 :145-154. [Full-Text]
2002 Barnes-Holmes Y.; Hayes S.; Barnes-Holmes D.; Roche B. (2002) 'Relational frame theory:A post-skinnerian account of human language and cognition'. Advances in child development and behavior, 28 (C):101-138. [DOI]
2002 O'Hora, D; Roche, B; Barnes-Holmes, D; Smeets, PM (2002) 'Response latencies to multiple derived stimulus relations: Testing two predictions of relational frame theory'. Psychological Record, 52 :51-75. [Full-Text]
2002 Stewart, I; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B; Smeets, PM (2002) 'Stimulus equivalence and nonarbitrary relations'. Psychological Record, 52 :77-88. [Full-Text]
2002 Roche,B. (2002) 'The development of sexual arousal patterns in humans'. BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN, 1 :47-51.
2002 Stewart, I; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B; Smeets, PM (2002) 'A functional-analytic model of analogy: A relational frame analysis'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 78 :375-396. [Full-Text]
2001 Y. Barnes-Holmes, D. Barnes-Holmes, P.M. Smeets (2001) 'Exemplar training and a derived transformation of functions in accordance with symmetry'. Psychological Record, 51 :287-308. [Full-Text]
2001 Barnes-Holmes, Y; Barnes-Holmes, D (2001) 'Exemplar training and a derived transformation of function in accordance with symmetry: II'. Psychological Record, 51 :589-603. [Full-Text]
2001 Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B. & Smeets, P. M. (2001) 'The development of self and perspective-taking: A relational frame analysis'. BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN, 1 :42-45.
2001 D. O' Hora, D. Barnes-Holmes and B. Roche (2001) 'Developing a procedure to model the establishment of instructional control'. THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BULLETIN, 19 :11-13. [Full-Text]
2001 Barnes-Holmes, Y; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B; Smeets, PM (2001) 'Exemplar training and a derived transformation of function in accordance with symmetry'. Psychological Record, 51 :287-308. [Full-Text]
2001 Smeets, PM; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B (2001) 'Derived stimulus-response and stimulus-stimulus relations in children and adults: Assessing training order effects'. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78 :130-154. [Full-Text]
2001 Stewart, I; Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B; Smeets, PM (2001) 'Generating derived relational networks via the abstraction of common physical properties: A possible model of analogical reasoning'. Psychological Record, 51 :381-408. [Full-Text]
2001 D. Barnes-Holmes, S.C. Hayes and B. Roche (2001) 'The (not so) strange death of stimulus equivalence'. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 1 :35-98. [Full-Text]
2001 O'Hora, D. Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (2001) 'Research in progress: Developing a procedure to model the establishment ot instructional control'. THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BULLETIN, 19 :13-15. [Full-Text]
2000 Roche. B. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2000) 'Reply to the New Wave issues'. Psychologist, 12 :500-504.
2000 Roche, B; Barnes-Holmes, D; Smeets, PM; Barnes-Holmes, Y; McGeady, S (2000) 'Contextual control over the derived transformation of discriminative and sexual arousal functions'. Psychological Record, 50 :267-291. [Full-Text]
1999 Roche, B. (1999) 'The new wave of Behaviourism'. Psychologist, 12 :500-504.
1999 Roche, B., Stewart I. & Barnes-Holmes. D. (1999) 'PsyScope: An easy-to use graphical system for designing and controlling equivalence experiments'. THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BULLETIN, 17 :5-7. [Full-Text]
1999 Barnes-Holmes, D., Dymond, S., Roche, B. & Grey, I. (1999) 'Behaviour analysis: A new agenda for language and cognition'. Psychologist, 12 :500-504.
1999 Barnes-Holmes, D; Dymond, S; Roche, B; Grey, I (1999) 'Language and cognition'. Psychologist, 12 :500-504.
1998 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1998) 'The experimental analysis of human sexual arousal: Some recent developments'. Behavior Analyst, 21 :37-52. [Full-Text]
1997 Roche. B.. Barnes, D. & Smeets, (1997) 'Incongruous stimulus pairing and conditional discrimination training: Effects on relational responding'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 68 :143-160.
1997 Barnes, D., & Roche, B. (1997) 'A behavior-analytic approach to behavioral reflexivity'. Psychological Record, 47 :543-572.
1997 McGeady, S. & Roche. B. (1997) 'A contextually controlled transformation of operant response functions in accordance with arbitrarily applicable relations'. THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BULLETIN, 15 :12-13.
1997 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1997) 'A transformation of respondentiy conditioned stimulus function in accordance with arbitrarily applicable relations'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 68 :143-160.
1997 Smeets, P. M., Barnes, D. & Roche, B. (1997) 'Functional equivalence in children: Derived stimulusresponse and 1 stimulus-stimulus relations'. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 66 :1-17.
1997 Barnes, P., & Roche, B. (1997) 'Relational frame theory and the experimental analysis of human sexuality'. JOURNAL OF APPLIED AND PREVENTITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 6 :117-135.
1997 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1997) 'The behavior of organisms?'. Psychological Record, 47 :597-618.
1996 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1996) 'Arbitrarily applicable relational responding and sexual categorization: A critical test of the derived difference relation'. Psychological Record, 46 :451-475.
1996 Barnes, D., Lawlor, H., Smeets, P. & Roche.B. (1996) 'Stimulus equivalence and academic self concept among mildly mentally handicapped and nonhandicapped children'. Psychological Record, 46 :87-107.
1996 Barnes, D. & Roche, B. (1996) 'Relational frame theory and stimulus equivalence are fundamentally different A reply to Saunders'. Psychological Record, 46 :489-507.
1996 Roche. B. & Barnes. D. (1996) 'Sexual fetishism: A modern experimental analogue'. THE CLINICAL BEHAVIOR ANALYST, 3 :2-4.
1995 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1995) 'Measuring ill-defined events...and other problems. A reply to Augustson'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 13 :31-32.
1995 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1995) 'The establishment and electrodermal assessment of conditioned sexual responses'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 13 :26-29.
1995 Barnes, D., Browne, M., Smeets, P. & Roche, B. (1995) 'A transfer of functions and a conditional transfer of functions through equivalence relations in three to six year old children'. Psychological Record, 45 :405-430.
1995 Roche, B. & Barnes, D. (1995) 'Sexual behaviour as an act in context'. Irish Journal of Psychology, 16 :409-417.
1994 Barnes. D. & Roche, B. (1994) 'Mechanistic ontology and contextualistic epistemology: A idiction in terms for behavior analysis'. Behavior Analyst, 7 :165-168.
2005 Roche, B., S. Coyle, T. Ward, C. Markham and G. McDarby (2005) 'Near-infrared Spectroscopy as an instrument for the measurement of general autonomic arousal '. The Behavior Analyst Today, 6 :121-126. [Full-Text]
2005 Roche, B., S. Coyle, T. Ward, C. Markham and G. McDarby (2005) 'Near-Infrared Spectrometry for the measurement of central nervous system activation: a brief demonstration of an emerging behavioral assessment tool'. The Behavior Analyst Today, 6 :121-126. [Full-Text]
2004 Roche, B., Linehan, C., Ward, T., Dymond, S., Reheldt, R. (2004) 'The Unfolding of the Relational Operant: A Real-time Analysis Using Electroencephalography and Reaction Time Measures'. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4 :1-17. [Full-Text]
2003 Roche, B. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2003) 'Behavior analysis and social constructionism: Points of contact and departure'. 26 :215-231. [Full-Text]
2002 Roche, B., Bames-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Stewart, I., & O'Hora, D. (2002) 'Relational frame theory: A new paradigm tor the analysis of social behavior'. 25 :75-91.
2001 Barnes-Holmes, Y., Professor Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Roche, B., & Smeets, P.M. (2001) 'Exemplar training and a derived transformation of symmetry'. The Psychological Record, V. 51 :287-308. [Full-Text]
2000 Roche, B., Barnes-Holmes, D., Hayes, S. C., Toarmino, D., Dymond, S., & Grey, I. (2000) 'The new wave'. Psychologist, 13 .
2000 Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B., & Hayes, S. C., Toarmino, D., Dymond, S., & Grey, I. (2000) 'Truth and falsehood'. Psychologist, 13 :441-442.
1999 Roche, B., Stewart, I., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (1999) 'PsyScope: An easy-to-use graphic-oriented application for designing and controlling computer-based research on relational responding'. 17 :5-7. [Full-Text]
1997 Roche, B., & Barnes, D., & Smeets, P. M. (1997) 'Incongruous stimulus pairing contingencies and conditional discrimination training: Effects on relational responding'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 68 :143-160.
1997 Roche, B., & Barnes, D. (1997) 'A transformation of respondentry conditioned stimulus function in accordance with arbitrarily applicable relations'. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR, 67 :275-300.
1997 Barnes, D, & Roche, B. (1997) 'Relational frame theory and the experimental analysis of human sexuality'. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 6 :117-135.
1997 Smeets, P.M., Barnes, D., & Roche, B. (1997) 'Functional equivalence in children. Derived stimulusresponse and stimulus-stimulus relations'. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 66 :1-17.
1996 Roche, B., & Barnes, D. (1996) 'Arbitrarily applicable relational responding and human sexual categorization: A critical test of the derived difference relation'. Psychological Record, 46 :451-507.
1996 Roche, B., & Barnes, D. (1996) 'Sexual behaviour as an act in context'. Irish Journal of Psychology, 16 :409-417.
1996 Roche, B., & Barnes, D. (1996) 'Sexual fetishism: A modem experimental analogue'. CLINICAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS, 1 :2-4.
1996 Barnes, D., & Roche, B. (1996) 'Relational frame theory and stimulus equivalence are fundamentally different: A reply to Saunders commentary'. Psychological Record, 46 :489-507.
1995 Roche, B., & Barnes, D. (1995) 'The establishment and electrodermal assessment of conditioned sexual responses'. 13 :26-29.
1994 Barnes, D., & Roche, B. (1994) 'Mechanistic ontology and contextualistic epistemology: A contradiction within behavior analysis'. 17 :165-168.

Book

Year Publication
2013 Simon Dymond & Bryan Roche (2013) Advances in Relational Frame Theory & Contextual Behavioral Science: Research & Application. : NEW HARBINGER.
2001 (2001) Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. : Plenum Press.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2020 Stevens, S., Stewart I., Roche, B. & Dymond, S. (2020) 'Learning Science and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)' In: Wiley Handbook of Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Hoboken, New Jersey, United States : Wiley-Blackwell.
2006 Lyddy, F., Roche, B., & Ambrose, H. (2006) 'Children's reading of Irish-English homographs: The role of language background and task context' In: Hickey, T.M(Eds.). Literacy and Language Learning: Reading in a First or Second Language. Dublin : Reading Association of Ireland.
2001 B. Roche, D. Barnes-Holmes, Y. Barnes-Holmes, S.C. Hayes (2001) 'Social processes' In: S. C. Hayes, D., Barnes-Holmes, & B. Roche(Eds.). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York : Plenum Press.
2015 Linehan, C, Kirman, B, & Roche, B. (2015) 'Gamification as applied behaviour analysis' In: Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding(Eds.). The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Boston, MA, USA : M.I.T Press.
2014 O'Reilly A.; Roche B.; Cartwright A. (2014) 'Function over form: A behavioral approach to implicit attitudes' In: Exploring Implicit Cognition: Learning, Memory, and Social Cognitive Processes. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Roche, B., Cassidy, S. & Stewart, I. (2013) 'Nurturing genius: Realizing a foundational aim of Psychology' In: Kashdan, T & Ciarrochi, J(Eds.). Cultivating well-being: Treatment innovations in Positive Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and beyond. CA, USA : NEW HARBINGER.
2013 Stewart, I., Tarbox, J., Roche, B., & O’Hora, D. (2013) 'Education, intellectual development, and relational frame theory. In Dymond, S. & Roche, B' In: Simon Dymond & Bryan Roche(Eds.). Advances in Relational Frame Theory: Research & Application. CA, USA : NEW HARBINGER. [Full-Text]
2013 Dymond, S., Roche, B., & Bennett, M. (2013) 'Relational frame theory and experimental psychopathology' In: Simon Dymond & Bryan Roche(Eds.). Advances in Relational Frame Theory & Contextual Behavioral Science: Research & Application. CA, USA : NEW HARBINGER.
2013 Stewart, I & Roche, B. (2013) 'Relational Frame Theory: An overview' In: Simon Dymond & Bryan Roche(Eds.). Advances in Relational Frame Theory & Contextual Behavioral Science: Research & Application. CA, USA : NEW HARBINGER.
2007 Roche, B. & Quayle, E. (2007) 'Sexual Disorders' In: Wood. J & Kanter, J(Eds.). Understanding behavior disorders:  A Contemporary behavioral perspective. Reno : Context Press.
2005 Roche, B., O'Riordan, M., Ruiz, M., & Hand, K.  (2005) 'A relational frame approach to the psychological assessment of sex offenders' In: M. Taylor & E. Quayle(Eds.). Viewing Child Pornography on the Internet: Understanding the Offence, managing the Offender, and Helping the Victims. Dorset : Russell House Publishing.
2001 Y. Barnes-Holmes, D. Barnes-Holmes, O. Healy, F. Lyddy, V. Cullinan, S.C. Hayes (2001) 'Psychological development' In: S. C. Hayes, D., Barnes-Holmes, & B. Roche(Eds.). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York : Plenum Press.
2001 D. Barnes-Holmes, D. O' Hora, S.C. Hayes, R.T. Bisset, F. Lyddy (2001) 'Understanding and verbal regulation' In: S. C. Hayes, D., Barnes-Holmes, & B. Roche(Eds.). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York : Plenum Press.
2001 Y. Barnes-Holmes, S.C. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes (2001) 'Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition' In: H. W. Reese(Eds.). Advances in child development, vol. 28. New York : Academic Press.
2001 S.C. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes (2001) 'Relational frame theory: A précis' In: S. C. Hayes, D., Barnes-Holmes, & B. Roche(Eds.). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York : Plenum Press.
2000 Barnes, D., Stewart, L, Dymond, S. & Roche, B. (2000) 'A behavior-analytic approach to some of the problems ot self: A relational frame analysis' In: M. Dougher(Eds.). Clinical behavior analysis. Reno : Context Press.
1997 Barnes, D. & Roche. B. (1997) 'Relational frame theory and the experimental analysis of human sexuality: Some interpretative implications' In: Dillenberger, K, O'Keilly, M. & Keenan, M(Eds.). Advances in behaviour analysis. Dublin : University College Dublin Press.

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2014 Linehan C.; Bellord G.; Kirman B.; Morford Z.; Roche B. (2014) CHI PLAY 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Learning curves: Analysing pace and challenge in four successful puzzle games [DOI]

Publication Letters

Year Publication
2000 Roche, B; Barnes-Holmes, D (2000) The new wave. LEICESTER: [Publication Letters]
2000 Barnes-Holmes, D; Roche, B; Hayes, SC (2000) Truth and falsehood. LEICESTER: [Publication Letters]
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Professional Associations

Description Function From / To
Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological society Chartered Psychologist -
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society Associate Fellow -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/10/2021 Honorary Doctorate in Psychology (Psy.D). Chichester University

Employment

Employer Position From / To
Maynooth University Full-time Lecturer in Psychology 01/01/2000 -
University of Bath Full-time Lecturer in Psychology 01/09/1995 - 01/08/1997
University College Cork Full-time Lecturer 01/09/1998 - 31/12/1999

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
University College Cork Ph.D.
University College Cork B.A.