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BRIAN M. HUGHES
Room 1033, Psychology Building, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, IRELAND
Phone: +353 (0) 91 493568 // Fax: +353 (0) 91 521355 // Email: brian.hughes@nuigalway.ie
EDUCATION
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ph.D. degree in Psychology (1998)
B.A. degree in Psychology (1993)
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Ed.M. degree in Science Education (2009)
FIXED ACADEMIC POSITIONS
National University of Ireland, Galway
Professor in Psychology (2014- )
Dean of International Affairs (2012- )
Director, Centre for Research on Occupational and Life Stress (2005- )
Senior Lecturer in Psychology (2008-2014)
Lecturer in Psychology (2001-2008)
Dublin Business School, Dublin, Ireland
Head of Department and College Lecturer, Department of Psychology (1998-2001)
VISITING/ADJUNCT ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Universiteit Leiden, Nederland
Gastonderzoeker [Visiting Researcher], Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum [Leiden University Medical
Centre] (2007)
King’s College London, UK
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry & Department of Psychology at Guy’s (2007)
University of Birmingham, UK
Visiting Scholar, Behavioural Medicine Group, School of Sport and Exercise Science (2007)
University of Missouri, United States
Visiting Scholar, Department of Health Psychology, School of Health Professions (2007)
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Healthcare Management (2001-2006)
PROFESSIONAL HONOURS
Psychological Society of Ireland
Fellow (FPsSI) (2015- )
President (2004-2005)
Founding Chair, Division of Health Psychology (2004)
Associate Fellow (AFPsSI) (2003-2015)
Registered Psychologist (RegPsychol) (2003- )
International Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR)
President (2014-2016)
Early Career Achievement Award (2007)
UK Science Council
Chartered Scientist (CSci) (2007-2014)
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BOOKS
Hughes, B. M. (2016) (in press). Rethinking Psychology: Good science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience. London:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Hughes, B. M. (2014). Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (Kindle Edition). London: Prentice-Hall.
Hughes, B. M. (2014). Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology. (India/SAARC Edition). Delhi: Pearson.
Hughes, B. M. (2012). Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology. Harlow: Prentice Hall (Pearson). (xv + 205
pp.).
EDITED VOLUMES
Phillips, A. C., Ginty, A., & Hughes, B. M. (Eds.) (2013). Blunted cardiovascular reactivity: What does it mean?
Special issue of the International Journal of Psychophysiology, 90(1).
Phillips, A. C., & Hughes, B. M. (Eds.) (2011). Cardiovascular reactivity at a crossroads: Where are we now?
Special issue of Biological Psychology, 86(2).
Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (Eds.) (2010). STAR 2010: 31st World Conference on Stress and Anxiety Research-Book of Abstracts. Galway: CROLS.
Hughes, B. M., & Walsh, J. C. (Eds.) (2005). Preventing ill health: Psychological risk factors and behavioural
interventions. Special issue of the Irish Journal of Psychology, 26(1-2).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Sesker, A., Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (in press). Conscientiousness and mindfulness in midlife coping: An
assessment based on MIDUS II. Personality and Mental Health.
Lydon, S., Healy, O., Mulhern, T., & Hughes, B. M. (in press). Heart rate measurement during stereotyped motor
behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities.
Lydon, S., Healy, O., Reed, P., Mulhern, T., Hughes, B. M., & Goodwin, M. S. (in press). A systematic review of
physiological reactivity to stimuli in autism. Developmental Neurorehabilitation.
Lydon, S., Healy, O., Roche, M., Henry, R., Mulhern, T., & Hughes, B. M. (2015). Salivary cortisol levels and
challenging behaviour in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders,
10, 78-92.
O'Leary, É. D., Howard, S., Hughes, B. M., & James, J. E. (2015). Salivary α-amylase reactivity to laboratory social
stress with and without acute sleep restriction. Journal of Psychophysiology, 29, 55-63.
Lee, E. M., & Hughes, B. M. (2014). Trait dominance is associated with vascular cardiovascular responses, and
attenuated habituation, to social stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 92, 79-84.
Creaven, A-M., Skowron, E. A., Hughes, B. M., Howard, S., & Loken, E. (2014). Dyadic concordance in mother
and preschooler resting cardiovascular function varies by risk status. Developmental Psychobiology, 56, 142152.
O'Donovan, A., Rush, G., Hoatam, G., Hughes, B. M., McCrohan, A., Kellegher, C., O'Farrelly, C., & Malone, K.
M. (2013). Suicidal ideation is associated with elevated inflammation in patients with major depressive
disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 30, 307-314.
O’Leary, É. D., Howard, S., Hughes, B. M., & James, J. E. (2013). An experimental test of blunting using sleeprestriction as an acute stressor. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 90, 37-43.
Howard, S. & Hughes, B. M. (2013). Type D personality is associated with a sensitized cardiovascular response to
recurrent stress in men. Biological Psychology, 94, 450-455.
Phillips, A. C., Ginty, A., & Hughes, B. M. (2013). The other side of the coin: Blunted cardiovascular and cortisol
reactivity is also associated with negative health outcomes. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 90, 17.
Creaven, A-M., Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2013). Social support and trait personality are independently
associated with resting cardiovascular function in women. British Journal of Health Psychology, 18, 556573.
Kola, S., Walsh, J. C., Hughes, B. M., & Howard, S. (2013). Matching intra-procedural information with coping
style reduces psychophysiological arousal in women undergoing colposcopy. Journal of Behavioral
Medicine, 36, 401-402.
James, J. E., Douglas Gregg, M. E., Matyas, T. A., Hughes, B. M., & Howard, S. (2012). Stress reactivity and the
hemodynamic profile-compensation deficit (HP-CD) model of blood pressure regulation. Biological
Psychology, 90, 161-170.
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Creaven, A-M., & Hughes, B. M. (2012). Cardiovascular responses to mental activation of social support schemas.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 84, 113-119.
Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2012). Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social
context: Examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 25,
411-423.
Kola, S., Walsh, J. C., Hughes, B. M., & Howard, S. (2012). Attention focus, trait anxiety, and pain perception in
patients undergoing colposcopy. European Journal of Pain, 16, 890-900.
Higgins, N. M., & Hughes, B. M. (2012). Individual differences in the impact of attentional bias training on
cardiovascular responses to stress in women. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 25, 381-395.
Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2012). Construct, concurrent, and discriminant validity of Type D personality in the
general population: Associations with anxiety, depression, stress, and cardiac output. Psychology and Health,
27, 242-258.
Healy, O., Hughes, B. M., Leader, G., & Devlin, S. (2011). Response re: "Comparison of behavioral intervention
and sensory-integration therapy in the treatment of challenging behavior". Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders, 41, 1439-1441.
Devlin, S., Healy, O., Leader, G., & Hughes, B. M. (2011). Comparison of behavioral intervention and sensoryintegration therapy in the treatment of challenging behavior. Journal of Autism and Developmental
Disorders, 41, 1303-1320.
Kaptein, A. A., Zandstra, T., Scharloo, M., Vogel, J. J., Godefroy, P., Broadbent, E., Hughes, B. M., van der Mey,
A. G. L. (2011). “A time bomb ticking in my head”: Drawings of inner ears by patients with vestibular
schwannoma. Clinical Otolaryngology, 36, 183-184.
Howard, S., Hughes, B. M., & James, J. E. (2011). Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory
stress in women. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 80, 96-102.
Hughes, B. M., Howard, S., James, J. E., & Higgins, N. M. (2011). Individual differences in adaptation of
cardiovascular responses to stress. Biological Psychology, 86, 129-136.
Phillips, A. C., & Hughes, B. M. (2011). Introductory paper: Cardiovascular reactivity at a crossroads—Where are
we now? Biological Psychology, 86, 95-97.
Conneely, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2010). Test anxiety and sensitivity to social support among college students: Effects
on salivary cortisol. Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 14, 295-310 [Invited contribution to Special Issue on Test
Anxiety].
O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B. M., Slavich, G. M., Lynch, L., Cronin, M. T., O’Farrelly, C., & Malone, K. M. (2010).
Clinical anxiety, cortisol, and interleukin-6: Evidence for specificity in emotion-biology relationships. Brain,
Behavior, and Immunity, 24, 1074-1077.
Hughes, B. M., & Higgins, N. M. (2010). Habituation-sensitization of cardiovascular reactivity to repeated stress in
smokers and non-smokers: An anthropometrically matched trial. International Journal of Psychophysiology,
76, 34-39.
Kaptein, A. A., Hughes, B. M., Scharloo, M., Hondebrink, N. V., & Langeveld, T. P. M. (2010). Psychological
aspects of adductor spasmodic dysphonia: A prospective population controlled questionnaire study. Clinical
Otolaryngology, 35, 31-38.
Schallmayer, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2010). Impact of oral contraception and neuroticism on cardiovascular stress
reactivity across the menstrual cycle. Psychology, Health, and Medicine, 15, 105-115.
Ferguson, E., Williams, L., O’Connor, R., Howard, S., Hughes, B. M., Johnston, D. W., Allan, J. L., O’Connor, D.
B., Lewis, C. A., Grealy, M. A., & O’Carroll, R. E. (2009). A taxometric analysis of Type-D personality.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 981-986.
Hughes, B. M., & Howard, S. (2009). Social support reduces resting cardiovascular function in women. Anxiety,
Stress, and Coping, 22, 537-548.
Kaptein, A. A., Scharloo, M., Fischer, M. J., Snoei, L., Hughes, B. M., Weinman, J., Kaplan, R. M., & Rabe, K. F.
(2009). Fifty years of psychological research on patients with COPD: Highway to heaven or road to ruin?
Respiratory Medicine, 103, 3-11.
O’Donovan, A., & Hughes, B. M. (2008). Access to social support in life and in the laboratory: Combined impact on
cardiovascular reactivity to stress and state anxiety. Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 1147-1156.
Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2008). Expectancies, not aroma, explain impact of lavender aromatherapy on
psychophysiological indices of relaxation in young healthy women. British Journal of Health Psychology,
13, 603-617.
Hughes, B. M. (2008). How should clinical psychologists approach complementary and alternative medicine?
Empirical, epistemological, and ethical considerations. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 657-675.
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Kaptein, A. A., Hughes, B. M., Scharloo, M., Fischer, M. J., Snoei, L., Weinman, J., Creer, T. L., & Rabe, K. F.
(2008). Illness perceptions about asthma are determinants of outcome. Journal of Asthma, 45, 459-464.
Williams, L., O’Connor, R. C., Howard, S., Hughes, B. M., Johnston, D. W., Hay, J. L., O’Connor, D. B., Lewis, C.
A., Ferguson, E., Sheehy, N., Grealy, M. A., & O’Carroll, R. E. (2008). Type-D personality mechanisms of
effect: The role of health-related behaviour and social support. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64, 6369.
O’Donovan, A., & Hughes, B. M. (2008). Factors that moderate the effects of social support on cardiovascular
reactivity to stress. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8, 85-102.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Social support in ordinary life and laboratory measures of cardiovascular reactivity: Gender
differences in habituation-sensitization. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 34, 166-176.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Self-esteem, performance feedback, and cardiovascular stress reactivity. Anxiety, Stress, and
Coping, 20, 239-252.
Hughes, B. M., & Callinan, S. (2007). Trait dominance and cardiovascular reactivity to social and non-social
stressors: Gender-specific implications. Psychology and Health, 22, 457-472.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Individual differences in hostility and habituation of cardiovascular reactivity to stress. Stress
and Health, 23, 37-42.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Social Support at University Scale: A brief index. Psychological Reports, 100, 76-82.
O’Donovan, A., & Hughes, B. M. (2007). Social support and loneliness in college students: Effects on pulse
pressure reactivity to acute stress. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 19, 523-528.
Hughes, B. M. (2006). Natural selection and religiosity: Validity issues in the empirical examination of afterlife
cognitions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 477-478.
Hughes, B. M. (2006). Regional patterns of religious affiliation and availability of complementary and alternative
medicine. Journal of Religion and Health, 45, 549-557.
Hughes, B. M., & Black, A. (2006). Body-esteem as a moderator of cardiovascular stress responses in anatomy
students viewing cadaver dissections. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 501-506.
O’Donovan, A., & Hughes, B. M. (2006). Your best interests at heart? The Psychologist, 19, 216-219.
Hughes, B. M. (2005). Support as intimidation: When social interaction elevates stress-related blood pressure. Irish
Journal of Psychology, 26, 75-86.
Hughes, B. M., & Walsh, J. C. (2005). Introduction to Special Issue: The role of psychology in the prevention of ill
health. Irish Journal of Psychology, 26, 6-7.
Hughes, B. M. (2005). Birth order and locus of control revisited: Sex of siblings as a moderating factor.
Psychological Reports, 97, 419-422.
Hughes, B. M. (2005). Study, examinations, and stress: Blood pressure assessments in college students. Educational
Review, 57, 21-36.
Kennedy, D. K., & Hughes, B. M. (2004). The optimism-neuroticism question: An evaluation based on
cardiovascular reactivity in female college students. Psychological Record, 54, 373-386.
Hughes, B. M. (2004). Academic study, college examinations, and stress: Issues in the interpretation of
cardiovascular reactivity assessments with student participants. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research,
9, 23-44.
O’Donovan, A., & Hughes, B. M. (2004). The stress-buffering effects of social support on blood pressure and heart
rate. Irish Psychologist, 30, 216-220.
Hughes, B. M. (2003). Self-esteem and changes in heart rate during laboratory-based stress. Psicologica:
International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 24, 79-91.
Hughes, B. M. (2002). Research on psychometrically evaluated social support and cardiovascular reactivity to
stress: Accumulated findings and implications. Studia Psychologica, 44, 311-326.
Hughes, B. M. (2002). Misremembering the appearance of common objects: Further cross-cultural confirmation.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 95, 1255-1258.
Hughes, B. M. (2001). Just noticeable differences in 2d and 3d bar charts: A psychophysical analysis of chart
readability. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 92, 495-503.
Hughes, B. M. (2001). Memory and arithmetic as laboratory stressors for analyses of cardiovascular reactivity: A
cursory assessment. Studia Psychologica, 43, 3-11.
Hughes, B. M. (2001). Psychology, hospitalisation, and some thoughts on medical training. European Journal of
Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 4, 7-26.
Hughes, B. M. (2001). Communication ability as a buffer against cardiovascular reactions to stress. Studia
Psychologica, 43, 287-294.
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Metekie, A. B., & Hughes, B. M. (2001). A brief survey of khat use among juvenile delinquents in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. Irish Journal of Psychology, 22 (2), 51-58.
Hughes, B., & Curtis, R. (2000). Quality and quantity of social support as differential predictors of cardiovascular
reactivity. Irish Journal of Psychology, 21, 16-31.
Hughes, B. M., Brooks, A-M., Sweeney, J., O’Hara, T., & Leahy, A. (2000). Self-reported health status and patient
satisfaction. Journal of Health Gain, 4 (4), 12-13.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Hughes, B. M. (2015). Complementary and alternative therapies for psychological problems. In R. Cautin & S. O.
Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Greenglass, E. R., Katter, J., Fiksenbaum, L., & Hughes, B. M. (2015). Surviving in difficult economic times:
Relationship between economic factors, self-esteem and psychological distress in university students (pp. 5877). In R. Burke, C. Cooper, & A. Antoniou (Eds.), The Multigenerational Workforce: Challenges and
Opportunities for Organisations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Hughes, B. M. (2013). Blood pressure reactivity or responses. In M. D. Gellman & J. R. Turner (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine (Vol. 2, pp. 235-239). New York: Springer.
Verrier, D. B., & Hughes, B. M. (2011). Spirituality and schizotypy: How personality can influence beliefs and
experience. In O. Cosgrove, L. Cox, C. Kuhling, & P. Mulholland (Eds.), Ireland’s new religious movements
(pp. 165-175). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Pal, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2011). A cross-cultural questionnaire survey of job stress, psychosocial work environment
and work-family conflict as predictors of subjective well-being and physical health: Comparing Norwegian
and Indian Nurses. In S. Anand, I. Kumar, & A. Srivastava (Eds.), Challenges of the twenty-first century: A
trans-disciplinary perspective (pp 218-227). Noida, India: Macmillan.
Howard, S., & Hughes, B. M. (2009). Does the Type D personality affect health through stress-related
psychosomatic pathways? In K. A. Moore & P. Buchwald (Eds.), Stress and anxiety: Application to
adolescence, job stress, and personality (pp. 139-144). Berlin: Logos Verlag.
Hughes, B. M., & Creaven, A-M. (2009). Achieving greater theoretical sophistication in research on socially
supportive interactions and health. In A. T. Heatherton & V. A. Walcott (Eds.), Handbook of social
interactions in the 21st century (pp. 125-135). New York: Nova Science.
Hughes, B. M. (2009). Stress, social support, and blood pressure: Worktime-downtime distinctions. In A. Antoniou,
C. L. Cooper, G. Chrousos, C. D. Spielberger, & M. W. Eysenck (Eds.), Handbook of managerial behavior
and occupational health (pp. 413-426). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Hughes, B. M. (2008). Evidence-based helping: Dispositional, situational, and temporal parameters of social
support. In P. Buchwald, T. Ringeisen, & M. W. Eysenck (Eds.), Stress and anxiety: Application to lifespan
development and health promotion (pp. 121-133). Berlin: Logos Verlag.
Hughes, B. M. (2006). Alternative medicine as tradition in a changing world. In P. Ó Héalaí, F. Mugnaini, & T.
Thompson (Eds.), The past in the present: A multidisciplinary approach (pp. 119-130). Catania, Italy: Edit
Press.
Hughes, B. M. (2006). Workaholism, the work environment, and occupational stress: A biopsychosocial
perspective. In P. Buchwald (Ed.), Stress and anxiety: Application to health, work place, community, and
education (pp. 196-211). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
REVIEWS
Hughes, B. M., Lee, E. M., McDonagh, L. K., O’Leary, É. D., & Higgins, N. M. (2012). Review of the book
Handbook of Adult Resilience, by J. W. Reich, A. J. Zautra, & J. S. Hall (Eds.), Journal of Positive
Psychology, 7, 155-158.
Hughes, B. M. (2010). Counterpoint: Response to Friedman and Krippner. PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary
Psychology—APA Review of Books, 55(44), Article 3 (online).
Hughes, B. M. (2010). Extraordinary people, ordinary evidence: New paradigms for parapsychology, same old
problem [Review of the book Mysterious Minds: The Neurobiology of Psychics, Mediums, and Other
Extraordinary People, by S. Krippner & H. L. Friedman (Eds.)]. PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary
Psychology—APA Review of Books, 55(30), Article 3 (online).
Hughes, B. M. (2007). To Err is Humane (sorry, Human): Enhancing health care and patient safety through
ergonomics [Review of the book Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient
Safety, by P. Carayon (Ed.)]. PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology—APA Review of Books, 52(37),
Article 8 (online).
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Hughes, B. M. (2006). Lies, damn lies, and pseudoscience: The selling of eye movement desensitization and
reprocessing (EMDR) [Review of the book Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: The Body/Mind Connection—How the
Body Holds the Secrets of a Life, and How to Unlock Them, by M. Scarf]. PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary
Psychology—APA Review of Books, 51(10), Article 18 (online).
Hughes, B. M. (2005). Trouble with a capital E: Evolutionary psychology and the descent of (straw) man [Review
of the book Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature, by D. J.
Buller]. PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology—APA Review of Books, 50(30), Article 4 (online).
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Hughes, B. M. (2015). Your agreeable aorta: Cardiovascular stress tolerance as a driver of human personality.
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Psychobiology Section of the British Psychological Society, Windermere,
UK, September.
Hughes, B. M. (2015) Explaining stress and anxiety research: From lab study to lay audience. Presidential Address,
36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society, Tel Aviv, Israel, June.
Hughes, B. M. (2015). The point of psychology (and how it gets missed). 2nd Annual Conference of the PSI Early
Graduates Group: “The Place of Psychology in Irish Society”, Galway, Ireland, February.
Hughes, B. M. (2014). How to not die: What we really know about stress and heart disease. 11th Annual
Conference of the PSI Division of Health Psychology: “Psychology, Health, & Medicine 2014”, Limerick,
Ireland, March.
Hughes, B. M. (2013). The “Delusion” Delusion: The persistence of counter-evidentiary reasoning. Keynote
Lecture, Psych Fest 2013, Limerick, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2012). Literacy in the 21st century: Word, web, woo. Keynote, 10th Annual CELT Symposium: “The
Written Word—Writing, Publishing and Communication in Higher Education”, Galway, Ireland, June.
Hughes, B. M. (2011). Cardiovascular responses to recurrent stress: Individual differences and aetiological
implications. Keynote, Conference on “Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity: Antecedents and Consequences”,
University of Birmingham, UK, June.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Psychological factors in physical health: Good science, bad science, and pseudoscience.
Keynote, Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the European Council of Skeptical Organizations: “The Assault
on Science—Constructing a Response”, Dublin, Ireland, September.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Stress, social support, and the Golden Rule: Dispositional and temporal complications. Early
Career Achievement Award Keynote, 28th International Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research
Society, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, July.
Hughes, B. M. (2005). The toxic brain: Stress and illness in the 21st century. Keynote lecture, Research and
Graduate Studies Colloquium, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, March.
Hughes, B. M. (2004). Life, death, and psychology. Presidential Address, 35th Annual Conference of the
Psychological Society of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, November.
INVITED PAPERS
Hughes, B. M. (2015). Personality, stress tolerance, and health: The cardiovascular reactivity hypothesis.
Psychology colloquium, Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, United
States, September.
Hughes, B. M. (2015). From lab study to lay audience: Adventures in science communication. Public talk,
Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, United States, September.
Hughes, B. M. (2014). Cardiovascular tolerance for stress over time: Individual differences and aetiological
implications. Research Seminar Programme, Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle,
UK, February.
Hughes, B. M. (2014). Psychological stress and physical well-being: Research on cultural, social, and personal
aspects. Center for Global Studies, Shantou University, Shantou, China, February.
Hughes, B. M. (2013). Starting positions: How value systems affect the science of psychology. Psychological
Society, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland, February.
Hughes, B. M. (2013). Psychology’s one-sided coin: Optimistic bias and the undermining of science. Psychology
Society, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, January.
Hughes, B. M. (2011). The science of misunderstanding: How our brains are programmed to make mistakes. Cork
Skeptics Public Lecture Series, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, Ireland, November.
Hughes, B. M. (2011). How does stress cause heart-disease? Evaluating the reactivity hypothesis. Research Seminar
Programme, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, UK, November.
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Hughes, B. M. (2011). Can you have an illness-prone personality? ‘The Bigger Picture’ Festival of Ideas, NUI
Galway, Galway, Ireland, October.
Hughes, B. M. (2011). [Round-table participant] Caregivers’ health. C-SPI 2011: 2nd Conference on Social
Psychology in Ireland, Limerick, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2011). The Babel Fish dilemma: Talking science with non-scientists. Irish Skeptics Society Public
Lecture Series, Dublin, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2010). Restoring personality and social factors to behavioural research on health. Seminar Series,
Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, November.
Hughes, B. M. (2010). The war on science: Quacks, cranks, and conservatives, and their campaign against reason.
Skeptics Society Public Lecture, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland, February.
Hughes, B. M. (2009). Adapting to life’s challenges: Individuals within communities within environments. Irish
Social Sciences Platform Summer School, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland, June.
Hughes, B. M. (2008). Social support, gender, and cardiovascular habituation-sensitization to stress. Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). On the Outside, On the Inside: Gender-specific effects of life social support on laboratory
blood pressure. Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK, November.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Social support in ordinary life and cardiovascular reactivity in laboratories. Department of
Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK, November.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Making sense of miracle cures: How psychology makes alternative medicine ‘work’.
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths--University of London, London, UK, October.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Social support in ordinary life and blood pressure in the laboratory: Gender differences in
habituation-sensitization. Behavioural Medicine Group, School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, September.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Stress, social support, and well-being in university students and teachers. Department of
Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Düsseldorf, Germany, May.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Complementary medicine as contemporary mysticism: Nouveau therapy and religiosity in
Ireland. International Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, United States, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Social support and stroke: Implications and applications. Roger S. Williams Foundation
Lecture, School of Health Professions, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, United States, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Why we worry ourselves sick: Evolution and psychosomatics. Harry S. Truman Memorial
Veterans Hospital, Columbia, United States, March.
Hughes, B. M. (2007). Individuality and receptiveness to social support: Epidemiological and clinical applications.
Psychology Grand Rounds Lecture, Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium, Mid-Missouri Mental
Health Center, Columbia, United States, March.
Hughes, B. M. (2005). International collaborations in telehealth and telework. UMC European Union Center,
Brussels, Belgium, July.
Hughes, B. M. (2005). Statistics and their analysis: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Department of Health Science
& Management, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2004). Forensic psychology in the Republic of Ireland: Professional issues. Invited address, AllIreland Conference on Forensic Psychology, Belfast, UK, December.
Hughes, B. M. (2004). Measurement and management of stress. Invited lecture, 8th World Congress of Cardiac
Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention, Dublin, Ireland, May.
Hughes, B. M. (2004). How to survive in statistical analysis without really trying. Department of Health Science &
Management, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2003). The placebo defect: How quacks exploit the psychology of health behaviour. Anniversary
Public Lecture, Irish Skeptics Society Public Lecture Series, Dublin, Ireland, December.
Hughes, B. M. (2003). Sense and nonsense in statistical analysis. Department of Health Science and Management,
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, May.
Hughes, B. M. (2002). Uses and abuses of statistical analysis. Department of Healthcare Management, Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2002). The social psychology of the cardiovascular stress response. Department of Psychology,
Dublin Business School, Dublin, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (2002). An tsíceolaíocht mar eolaíocht san ollscoil. Léacht speisialta, Cúrsa Rochtana na Gaeltachta,
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, Aibreán.
Hughes, B. M. (2001). Stress in hospital patients and healthcare professionals: Issues for management. Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical and Surgical Registrars study weekend, Co. Meath, Ireland, October.
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Hughes, B. M. (2001). Enhancing healthcare delivery through effective patient management. Department of Health
and Children/Registrars and Senior Registrars, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, June.
Hughes, B. M. (2001). Statistical analysis: Fact and fiction. Department of Healthcare Management, Royal College
of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, April.
Hughes, B. M. (1998). Surveys in health-based populations: Validity issues. St. Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park,
Dublin, Ireland, May.
Hughes, B. M. (1998). Threats to validity in health psychology research. Department of Psychology, Oxford
Brookes University, Oxford, UK, March.
PhD SUPERVISION
Amanda A. Sesker, ongoing
Páraic Ó Súillebháin, ongoing
Sinéad Lydon, 2015 (with O. Healy)
Éanna D. O’Leary, 2013 (with J. James)
Eimear M. Lee, 2013
Niamh M. Higgins, 2013
Ann-Marie Creaven, 2012
Sinéad Conneely, 2010
Aoife O’Donovan, 2009 (with K. Malone)
Diarmuid Verrier, 2009
Siobhán Howard, 2008
Tracey Quinn, 2008
RESEARCH GRANTS GREATER THAN €10,000
Polish National Science Center (2013-2015). Motivational dimensional model of affect and sequences of negative
and positive emotions: Analyses accounting for heart rate asymmetry from the perspective of health
psychology, with Ł. Kaczmarek. Project Grant (No. 2012/05/B/HS6/00578), €72,000
Health Research Board (2009-2012). Sleep-restriction and cardiovascular and endocrine responding to stress.
Collaborating Investigator (PI: Jack E. James). Project Grant (No. RP/2007/225), €0.30 million
HEA Equipment Grant Scheme (2007). Centre for Research on Occupational and Life Stress, collaborating with six
other NUI Galway research centres. Total award, €0.30 million
Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions: Cycle 4 (2007-2010). Social support and stress
research/Centre for Research on Occupational and Life Stress in NUI Galway’s applied social sciences
research group. Total award, €5.8 million to NUI Galway group/€16.5 million to national network (Direct
share to personal research: €0.64 million)
Irish Heart Foundation (2003-2005). Ability to benefit from socially supportive interventions in individuals
demonstrating high or low cardiovascular reactivity. IHF Research Award, €10,000
Kildare County Council (2003-2004). Social support, well-being, and health in rural Ireland, with B. Caska (Dublin
Business School). Research contract, €10,000
National Suicide Review Group (2003-2004). A school-based parent education program to reduce youth suicide risk
factors, with E. Gregg & J. James. Research Project/Prevention Strategy Grant, €20,000
Department of Health and Children (1998-1999). Factors influencing patients’ perceptions of quality of care, with J.
Sweeney & A. Leahy (UCD). Research Grant, €38,092
National University of Ireland, Galway (1993-1996). Varieties of social support as differential predictors of
cardiovascular reactivity: A micro-analysis. Postgraduate Research Fellowship, €15,237
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Guest Editor, International Journal of Psychophysiology, special issue on blunted cardiovascular stress responding
(2013)
Guest Editor, Biological Psychology, special issue on cardiovascular reactivity to stress (2010)
Guest Editor, Irish Journal of Psychology, special issue on health psychology (2005)
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Psychophysioilogy [Elsevier] (2013- )
Member, Editorial Board, Stress and Health [Wiley-Blackwell] (2013- )
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Member, Editorial Board, Psychology and Health [Taylor & Francis] (2011- )
Member, Editorial Board, Anxiety, Stress, and Coping [Taylor & Francis] (2008- )
Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science [Canadian Psychological Association] (20112014)
Member, Editorial Board, Irish Journal of Psychology [Taylor & Francis] (2007-2010)
Ad hoc journal reviewing: Annals of Behavioral Medicine; Anxiety, Stress, & Coping; Assessment; Biological
Psychology; Biopsychosocial Medicine; BMC International Health and Human Rights; Brain, Behavior, and
Immunity; British Journal of Health Psychology; Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; Educational
Research and Reviews; European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation; European
Journal of Psychological Assessment; Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental; Human
Resource Management Journal; Hypertension Research; International Journal of Hypertension;
International Journal of Psychology; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Irish Journal of
Psychology; Journal of Applied Research; Journal of Behavioral Medicine; Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology; Journal of Health Psychology; Journal of Psychosomatic Research; Journal of Social
and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Sports Sciences; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Psychological Reports;
Psychology and Health; Psychology, Health and Medicine; Psychosomatic Medicine; Psychophysiology;
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; Social Behavior and Personality; Stress and Health
Textbook reviewing: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill (2003); Wiley (2007); Pearson (2007); Syllaba (2008);
Continuum (2009-2010); SAGE (2011)