Nic Hooper Nichooper7@gmail.com Education 2003-2006 Bachelor of Science, Psychology Swansea University 2006-2010 PhD (A Derived Relational Model of Thought Suppression) Swansea University Academic Employment History (in reverse order) Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology Dates: August 2011 February 2013 Institution: Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus. (METU was ranked at 276-300 in the world by Times Higher Education World Rankings, 2012) Responsibilities: 12 hours teaching per week, including the following modules: Theories of Psychotherapy (Student Evaluation 4.71/5) Behavior Analysis (Student Evaluation 4.89/5) Introduction to Psychology (Student Evaluation 4.18/5) Statistics (Student Evaluation 4.93/5) Clinical Psychology (Student Evaluation 4.78/5) Topics in Clinical Psychology (Student Evaluation 4.73/5) Research Methods (Student Evaluation 4.25/5) Essay writing skills Additional responsibilities at METU NCC: Supervision of project students
o Students across the four-year degree program were required to run research projects. During the 4 th year of their degree, it was our aim that the students would run a project worthy of publication in an international peer reviewed journal. Research o During my time at METU I have conducted both funded and non-funded research projects. Various Admin responsibilities o At METU NCC there are no Masters or PhD programs within the Psychology Department. For this reason I ve had to mark every essay, report and exam written by each of my 70 students every semester. I additionally have had to liaise with other members of the department, the secretarial staff and the Dean of Social Sciences on numerous occasions to ensure productivity. Creation of Clinical Psychology course. o Clinical Psychology, Topics in Clinical Psychology and Theories of Psychotherapy were only offered to students at the main campus in Ankara before the 2011-2012 academic year. Upon arrival I was given the opportunity to design and teach these courses for the North Cyprus Campus. Title: Post-Doctoral Research Associate Dates: August 2010 August 2011. Institution: University of Kent, United Kingdom (UoK was ranked at 351-400 in the world by Times Higher Education World Rankings, 2012) Responsibilities: I was employed to work on a Leverhulme Trust funded project entitled practising mindfulness to avoid premature judgements. Additional duties included o Supervision of third year and Masters Project students o Mentoring of fellow research associates.
Title: Academic tutor Dates: September 2006 May 2010 (employment undertaken during my PhD) Institution: Swansea University, Wales (Swansea University was ranked at 351-400 in the world by Times Higher Education World Rankings, 2012) Responsibilities: Level 2 statistics demonstrator Supervision of 12 third year students and 6 Masters students on their respective experimental dissertations. Research Assistant on a temporal discounting project Academic Tutor, modules included: o Behavioural psychology o Research methods o Essay writing skills o Presentation skills o Social psychology o Statistics Applied Employment History (in reverse order) Clinical Counsellor: o I volunteer at METU NCC to provide brief individual and group therapy to students. Psychotherapist: o I currently provide psychotherapy to clients in the local community. Teaching Assistant: o I was employed by a Primary School for one year with a girl with learning difficulties. Subsequently I worked an added 6 months with an autistic boy where I was required to conduct Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) interventions. Student Counsellor: o For 6 months I lived on campus at Swansea University. In return for free accommodation I worked as a student counsellor and advisor).
Membership of Professional and Academic Bodies Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Association of Behavior Analysis International European Association of Social Psychology Journal Articles Hooper, N. & McHugh (in press). The effect of multiple thought suppression indulgence cycles on thought occurrence. American Journal of Psychology. Impact Factor: 1.09 Hooper, N., & McHugh, L. (in press). Cognitive defusion versus thought distraction in the mitigation of learned helplessness. The Psychological Record. Impact Factor: 1.10. Hooper, N., Stewart, I. Duffy, C., Freegard, G., & McHugh, L. (2012). Modelling the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on behavioral preference. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. 1(1) 73-82. Doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2012.06.001 Impact Factor: unknown. Weger, U. W., Hooper, N., Meier, B. P., & Hopthrow, T. (2012). Mindful maths: reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise. Consciousness and Cognition.21(1) 471-475. Doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.011. Impact Factor: 2.308 Hooper, N., Sandoz, E., Ashton, J., Clarke, A., & McHugh, L (2012). Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings. Eating Behaviors. 13(1) 62-64. Doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.10.002. Impact Factor: 1.576 Hooper, N., Davies, N., Davies, L., & McHugh, L. (2011). Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping strategies in the context of spider fearful thoughts. Consciousness and Cognition. 20(4) 1824-1830. Doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.05.013 Impact Factor: 2.308
Hooper, N., Saunders, J. & McHugh, L. (2010). The derived generalization of thought suppression. Learning and Behavior. 38(2) 160-168. Doi:10.3758/LB.38.2.160. Impact Factor: 2.000 Hooper, N., & Villatte, M., Neofotistou, E., & McHugh, L. (2010). An implicit versus an explicit measure of experiential avoidance. International Journal of Behavior Consultation and Therapy. 6 (3) 233-244. Impact Factor: unknown. Book Chapters McHugh, L., Stewart, I. & Hooper, N. (2012). A contemporary functional analytic account of perspective taking. In McHugh & Stewart (Ed), The Self and Perspective Taking; Contributions from Contemporary Behavioral Science. ISSN: 1572249951 Academic Grants Hooper, N., Hopthrow, T., & Weger, U. (Awarded). Using Mindfulness to Improve Decision Making and Well Being. Ideas Factory, University of Kent. 4,856 English Pounds. Stewart, I., Hooper, N., & McHugh. L. (Awarded) The Derived Generalization of Thought Suppression Functions: Extension of the Basic Paradigm. Association of Contextual Behavioral Science Grant. 4,543.78 American Dollars. Hooper, N., & Niyazi, A. (Awarded) Assessing Acceptance versus Thought Suppression as Techniques to Reduce Smoking Behavior. Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus Grant. 7,700 Turkish Lira.
Conference Presentations, Conference Posters, Invited Talks and Workshops Hooper, N. (2012) Mindfulness reduces choice blindness in typical and sub clinically depressed adults. Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Washington D.C, United States, July 2012. Hooper, N., & Niyazi, A. (2012) Assessing Acceptance versus Thought Suppression as Techniques to Reduce Smoking Behavior. Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Washington D.C, United States, July 2012. Hooper, N., Sandoz, E., & McHugh, L (2012). Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings. Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Washington D.C, United States, July 2012. (Symposium chair) McHugh, L. Hooper, N., & Stewart, I. (2012). Measuring the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on behavioural preferance, parts 1, 2 and 3. World RFT conference, Tokyo, Japan, March 2012. Hopthrow, T., Hooper, N., Meier, B. & Weger, U. (2012) Mindfulness Reduces the Fundamental Attribution Error. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). San Diego, United States, Jan 2012. Hooper, N. (2012). Thought suppression, Relational Frame Theory and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Departmental Colloquim Seminar Series, Middle East Technical University (Northern Cyprus Campus) March 2012. Hooper, N. (2012). Thought suppression, Relational Frame Theory and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Invited talk, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2012. Hooper, N. (2012). Coping with University Life; An ACT Approach. Invited talk, Middle East Technical University (Northern Cyprus Campus) January 2012.
Karekla, M., Michaelides, M. P., Monestès, JL., Jacobs, N., Hooper, N., Kleen, M., Luciano, C., Miselli, G., Presti, G., Ruiz Jiménez, F. J., Villatte, M., & Bond, F. (2011). Examining the Invariance of the Factor Structure of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II Across Seven Languages and Between Clinical and Nonclinical Samples. Association for Behavioral and Contextual Science, Parma, Italy, 13-15 July 2011. Hooper, N., Hopthrow, T., Meier, B. & Weger, U. (2011) Mindfulness Reduces the Fundamental Attribution Error. Poster presented at European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011. Hooper, N. (2011). An introduction to the clinical utility of mindfulness. Invited talk, Middle East Technical University (Turkey) June 2011. Hooper, N. & Thompson, M. (2011). Using Mindfulness to improve decision making and reduce stress in the workplace. 1 day Workshop: University of Kent. Stewart, I., Hooper, N. & McHugh, L. (2011). Generalisation of thought suppression functions via same and opposite relation. Assocation for Behavior Analysis, Denver, CO, May 2011. Hooper, N. (2010). Thought suppression; the return of the white bear. Invited talk, Swansea University, November 2010. Hooper, N. (2010). Thought suppression; the return of the white bear. Invited talk, University of Kent (Canterbury Campus), September 2010. McHugh, L., Stewart, I., Hooper, N., & Sandoz, E. (2010). RFT Basis of ACT and Third Wave CBT. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Reno, Nevada, June 2010. Hooper, N. (2010). The development of behavioral measures of ACT/RFT processes. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Reno, Nevada, June 2010.
Hooper, N. (2010). RFT Analogue Component Research. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Reno, Nevada, June 2010. (Symposium chair) Hooper, N. & McHugh, L. (2010). Thought suppression versus defusion in the mitigation of learned helplessness. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Reno, Nevada, June 2010. Hooper, N., McHugh, L. & Stewart, I. (2010). Measuring the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on behavioural preferance. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Reno, Nevada, June 2010. Hooper, N. Villatte, M. & McHugh, L. (2010). An implicit measure of emotional avoidance. Assocation for Behavior Analysis, San Antonio, Texas, May 2010. Hooper, N. Davies, L. & McHugh, L. (2010). The Behavioural Approach Test (BAT); Thought Suppression Vs Mindfulness. Assocation for Behavior Analysis, San Antonio, Texas, May 2010. Hooper, N. Villatte, M. & McHugh, L. (2010). An implicit measure of emotional avoidance. IRAP Meeting 2010, Maynooth, Ireland, March 2010. Hooper, N. Villatte, M. & McHugh, L. (2009) An implicit measure of emotional avoidance. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Enshede, Holland, July 2009. Hooper, N. Davies, L. & McHugh, L. (2009) The Behavioural Approach Test (BAT); Thought Suppression Vs Mindfulness. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Enshede, Holland, July 2009. Hooper, N. McHugh, L. & Saunders, J. (2009) Thought Suppression and the Transfer on Stimulus Functions. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Enshede, Holland, July 2009. Hooper, N. McHugh, L. & Saunders, J. (2009) Thought Suppression and the Transfer on Stimulus Functions. Assocation for Behavior Analysis, Phoenix, AZ, May 2009
Holland, D. Hooper, N. & McHugh, L. (2008). Coping strategies for unwanted thoughts under the rubric of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. European Association for Behavior Analysis, Madrid, Spain, September 2008 Hooper, N., Saunders, J. & McHugh, L. (2008). Stimulus generalization in thought suppression. European Association for Behavior Analysis, Madrid, Spain, September 2008. Saunders, J., Williams, S., Fernandes, M. & Hooper, N. (2007). Retrieval-induced forgetting or verbal overshadowing: Examining memory for smells. Poster presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Lewiston, ME, July 2007. Additional Attended various ACT based workshops, and spent a week at the house of Kelly Wilson (A well known ACT clinician) learning more about the finer points of ACT. Held the spotlight study on the International ACT/RFT website from January 2010 till July 2010. (www.contextualpsychology.org) Am in collaborations with well-known researchers from France, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Ireland and the United States. Review for Appetite, Behavior Research and Therapy, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Consciousness and Cognition and International Journal of Consultation Behavior and Therapy. In May 2010 I had a press release documenting my achievements as a self funded PhD students in local media outlets in Cardiff and Swansea. Excellent working knowledge of a range of computer software packages useful to psychologists (e.g., SPSS, PowerPoint, Excel). Referees Dr Kelly Wilson (The University of Mississippi): kwilson@olemiss.edu Dr Louise McHugh (Swansea University); L.McHugh@swan.ac.uk Dr Ian Stewart (University of Galway); ian.stewart@nuigalway.ie
Dr Emily Sandoz (University of Lafayette); emilykennison@gmail.com Dr Jean-Louis Monestes (University of Reunion); jlmonestes@yahoo.fr Dr Ulrich Weger (University of Kent); U.Weger@kent.ac.uk Dr Tim Hopthrow (University of Kent); T.Hopthrow@kent.ac.uk