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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | De Vries, Jan | |
| College Address | Nursing and Midwifery, D'Olier Street - School Of Nursing |
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| Main Department | School of Nursing & Midwifery | |
| College Title | Assistant Professor | |
| jan.devries@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 4032 | |
| Biography | |
| Dr. de Vries is a psychologist who specialises in clinical and health psychology, stress management, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology. He holds a PhD in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc and BSc from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Dr. de Vries started his research career in the Netherlands at Utrecht University where he was a researcher in the Theatre, Film and Television Department. The research focussed on emotions in spectators of theatre and film. At that time he also started his research on stress management in performers, which was the topic of his Masters thesis in the Netherlands and later his PhD in Ireland. The research included a survey of performers, semi-structured interviews, design and evaluation of an intervention for performers in training (including follow-up), and led to the design of stress management workshops. He moved to Ireland in 1994 to extend and complete the research started in the Netherlands. While in Ireland he got involved in a variety of projects including a feasibility study for TCD and DIT on setting up of an Arts Therapies programme. This included focus groups. Later he set up, coordinated, and evaluated an extensive programme of dialogue, healing and reconciliation at the Glencree Centre of Reconciliation (Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow). In 2000 he was offered a visiting professorship at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He stayed in the USA for six year combining teaching of a variety of psychology classes with research on dating services. At present he is lecturing in psychology in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in TCD and involved in a variety of research programmes originating in the School. He is a reviewer for Family and Marriage review and was a member of the Stress Management Policy Development group for the Health Service Executive (HSE). This present research activities include the Cognitive Neuroscience of Cognitive Dissonance; Applications of Cognitive Dissonance (to Hand Hygiene and Conflict Management); Psychology Teaching in Nursing; Various Evaluations of Mental Health Programmes and other training programmes; Leadership in Nursing; Accident Proneness and Functional Health Patterns, and Community Integration in People with and Intellectual Disability. | |
| Professional Qualifications | |
| Qualification | Institution | Class of Degree | Title of Dissertation | Date Conferred |
| PhD | Trinity College Dublin | Stage Fright and an intervention for performers | 2000 | |
| MSc | Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands | Stage Fright: Fear of Sucess or Fear of Failure | 1983 | |
| BSc | Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands | 1978 |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Administrative Functions | |
| Details | Level | Date From | Date To |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) | 2006 | present |
| Netherlands Institute for Psychologists (NIP) | 1987 | present |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Education Details | |
| School/College | Date From | Date To |
| Department of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin | 1994 | 2000 |
| Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands | 1975 | 1983 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| Dutch | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| German | Fluent | Medium | Medium |
| Employment Details | |
| Position Held | Job Description | Where | Date From | Date To |
| Psychology Lecturer and Subject Leader | lecturer in psychology | Trinity College Dublin | 2007 | present |
| part-time lecturer | lecturer in stress management and health and safety | Dublin Institute of Technology | 2006 | present |
| part-time lecturer | lecturer in music education and psychology | Griffith College Dublin | 2006 | present |
| part-time lecturer | lecturer in psychology | Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology (IADT) | 2006 | 2007 |
| visiting professor | professorship in psychology | Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA | 2001 | 2006 |
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| Description of Research Interests |
| Main interests: - Stress and Stress Management - Trauma and Trauma Treatment - Cognitive dissonance: neuroscience and applications General Areas of Interest: - General Psychology - Social Psychology - Health Psychology |
| Research Interests | |||
| Applied Psychology | Behavior Modification | Behavioural Neuroscience | CONFLICT |
| Clinical Psychology | Clinical psychology | Cognitive science | Conflict Management and Resolution |
| Creative music education | Crisis Counseling | Development, prevention and treatment of mental disease or disorder | Developmental Psychology |
| Emotional, behavioural and cognitive disorders | Health Communication | Health attitudes and behaviour | Health psychology |
| Information technology in education | Innovation in learning | Leadership in nursing | Mental health nursing |
| Mental health promotion | Neuropsychology | Neuroscience and Cognition | Nursing |
| Peace Psychology | Peace Studies | Performance practice | Psychosomatic Disorders |
| Rehabilitation | Research issues specifice to any health profession | Social Psychology | Stress |
| Stress Management | Trauma | Violence Prevention |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Cognitive Dissonance and fMRI |
| Summary | The aim of this study is to investigate the neural response to cognitive dissonance (CD) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The objective is to identify how common everyday events that could generate dissonance are processed in the brain. On the basis of present neurological evidence it is hypothesised that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and parts of the prefrontal cortex are implicated. Most of the research is based on relatively contrived lab tasks. This study attempts to establish whether the hypothesis still holds when CD induction takes place in a more naturalistic way presenting participants with day to day situations that generate dissonance. The study is part of a wider effort to bridge the gap between research on social cognition and neuroscience.Background Cognitive Dissonance (CD) (Festinger, 1957) is the result of simultaneously holding two or more inconsistent cognitions, or exhibiting behaviour that is inconsistent with beliefs or values. This is experienced as an uncomfortable tension motivating efforts to reduce dissonance and therefore discomfort. This is commonly done by changing cognitions or behaviours, but also by trivialising or seeking distraction. Evidence from neurological studies suggests that dissonance discomfort is detected in various brain structures, notably the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), while efforts to resolve it take place in the prefrontal cortex (Amodio et al, 2004; Harmon-Jones et al., 2008). Research Approach and Design Main Study: The study will make use of a within-subject 2 x 2 design + baseline condition. Participants will all undergo the same procedure. They will be presented with a series of questions while undergoing an fMRI scan. In the experimental condition, the stimulus consists of (1) a primer which presents a common value; followed by (2) a memory prompt to think of personal violations of this value. Dissonance is expected to occur as a result. Three control conditions will provide necessary contrasts for fMRI analysis, while an added control condition serves as a baseline comparison. They use the same format with contrasting primers and memory prompts. Pilot Study: To select the items for inclusion in the fMRI study, a pilot study will take place in which the memory prompts will be tested. Those that are recalled most consistently will form the pool of items to be used in the experimental condition of the study. Data Collection Methods Main Study: The study will use fMRI scanning. Biographical data and intervention checks will make use of yes/no questions, 4-point Likert scales, and a dissonance questionnaire (Elliot and Devine, 1994). Responses to the stimuli during the scan will be given by pushing buttons on a panel in the scanner. Pilot Study: The pilot will make use of questionnaire which participants can complete on-line in Survey Monkey. |
| Funding Agency | Trinity College |
| Programme | New Staff Start up Fund |
| Type of Project | Neuroscience |
| Date from | Sept 2009 |
| Date to | Sept 2013 |
| Person Months | 24 |
| Project title | Proneness to Accidents in a Graduate Population |
| Summary | Sheerin, F., Curtis, E., De Vries, J.M.A. This study addresses proneness to accidents in a graduate population. Its objective is to seek for associations between personal accidents and health (as measured with the Functional Health Patterns Inventory) |
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| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 01/10/2009 |
| Date to | 01/10/2011 |
| Person Months | 3 |
| Project title | Sex Education Support in Schools |
| Summary | a study of supports and outside facilitators for sex education in secondary schools |
| Funding Agency | Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | literature study |
| Date from | 2009 |
| Date to | 2009 |
| Person Months | 6 |
| Project title | Transferable skills in Nursing Education |
| Summary | This project is an evaluation of skills transfer between first and second year group poster projects in BSc nursing students. |
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| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2007 |
| Date to | 2010 |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| De Vries, J.M.A., Impact of Self Descriptions and Photographs on Mediated Dating Interest., Marriage & Family Review, 46, (8), 2010, p538 - 562 | |
| De Vries, J.M.A., Cognitive Dissonance Meme and Psychotherapy. , Inside Out; Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative , 57, (2), 2009, p20 - 28 | |
| De Vries, J.M.A., Cognitive dissonance theory applied to CPR, DNAR, and the practice of slow codes. , British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 3, (12), 2008, p565 - 570 | |
| De Vries, J.M.A., Cognitive dissonance in victims of political violence, Inside Out; Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, 52, (4), 2007, p65 - 70 |
| Non Peer Reviewed | |
| De Vries J., Mayock P., Higgins A., Sherlock L., Doyle L., Andrews L. & Sheaf, G, A Review of the International Literature on the Role of Outside Facilitators in the Delivery of School-based Sex Education, Dublin, Crisis Pregnancy Agency, December, 2009, 1, 190 | |
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| References |
| Name | Address | Telephone | Details | |
| Dorothy Chin | Department of Behavioral Studies Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd Santa Monica, CA 90405 | dchin@ucla.edu | +1 (310) 434 3542 | Head of Pscyhology Department |
| Michael O'Sullivan | LMU One LMU Drive Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA | mosulliv@lmu.edu | +1 (310) 338 3015 | Head of Department of Psychology |