Michael Gormley
Assistant Professor,
Psychology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Michael Gormley obtained his Ph.D. from the Queen's University of Belfast in 1999, and took up his first academic position in the then department of Psychology, at Trinity College in 2000. He was employed as a lecturer is research methodology and statistics, and this remains his primary role on the undergraduate course.
Research Interest
Driving behaviour: speeding, young male drivers, theoretical models of speeding behaviour, antecedents of speeding behaviour including estimation of journey time. Implicit cognition: use in behaviours such as smoking, sex offending and prejudice; subliminal perception.
Publications
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Ryan, M. & Gormley, M. , Evaluating pre-driver road safety education interventions for secondary schools students, 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, San Francisco, California, July 21-25, 2012
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Hopper, L., & Gormley, M, Extent of, and influences on, clear overestimation of peer prevalence by age and smoking status, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, August, 2012
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Ó Ciardha, C., & Gormley, M. , Using a pictorial modified Stroop task in the exploration of sexual interests of sexual offenders against children. , Sexual Abuse: A journal of Research and Treatment., 24, (2), 2012, p175 - 197
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Ó Ciardha, C., & Gormley, M. , Measuring sexual interest using a pictorial modified Stroop task, a pictorial Implicit Association Test and a Choice Reaction Time task. , Journal of Sexual Agression, 19, (2), 2013, p158 - 170
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O Brien, F., & Gormley, M. , The contribution of inhibitory deficits to dangerous driving among young people, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 51, 2013, p238 - 242
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Risk Allostasis: A Simulator Study of Age Effects in, editor(s)Lisa Dorn Mark Sulliman , Driver Behaviour and Training VI, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2013, pp25 - 42, [Lang, B., Parks, A. & Gormley, M]
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Hopper, L. & Gormley, M., Smoking risk perceptions in Irish adolescents with varied smoking experience, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, March 15, 2013
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Hopper, L., & Gormley, M. , The Implications of Cue Valence in an Adolescent and Adult Nicotine Stroop Study, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting,, Boston, USA, March 15, 2013
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O Neill D, Gormley M, Multi-modality of transport and ageing: findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Irish Ageing Studies Review, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European Region, Dublin, 23-26 April 2015, 6, (1), 2015, pp100
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Mattsson, M., O Brien, F., Gormley, M., & Summala, H., Measurement invariance of the Driver Behavior Questionnaire across samples of young drivers from Finland and Ireland, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 78, 2015, p185 - 200
