2024
Jones, M., Seel, C., & Dymond, S. (2024). Electronic-screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (e-SBIRT) for addictive disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Substance Use & Addiction Journal. DOI: 10.1177/29767342241248926
Dymond, S., Cameron, G., Zuj, D. V., & Quigley, M. (2024). Far from the threatening crowd: Generalization of conditioned threat value in COVID-19 lockdown. Learning & Behavior. DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00625-4.
Boldrin, L.S., Debert, P., & Dymond, S. (2024). Avoidance extinction in equivalence classes. The Psychological Record. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-023-00580-y PDF
2023
Dymond, S., Dighton, G., Hoon, A.E., Roderique-Davies, G., John, B., & Bowden-Jones, H. (2023). The ongoing need for NHS Gambling Harms services in Wales: Time to put words into action. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1277435
Zwolker, M., Dymond, S., & Singer, B. (2023). Voluntary self-exclusion and contingency management for the treatment of harmful gambling: An exploratory study. Healthcare, (1)(19), 2682; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192682
Whiteford, S., Quigley, M., Dighton, G., Wood, K., Kitchiner, N., Armour, C., & Dymond, S. (2023). Anxiety, not distress tolerance, mediates the relationship between complex posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and alcohol use in veterans. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80, 158-169. doi:10.1002/jclp.23604
Newall, P., Allami, Y., Andrade, M., Ayton, P., Baker-Frampton, R., Bennett, D., Browne, M., Bunn, C., Bush-Evans, R., Chen, S., Collard, S., De Jans, S., Derevensky, J., Dowling, N., Dymond, S., Froude, A., Goyder, E., Heirene, R.M., Hing, N., . . . Roberts, A. (2023). ‘No evidence of harm’ implies no evidence of safety: Framing the lack of causal evidence in gambling advertising research. Addiction, doi:10.1111/add.16369
Houghton, S., Boy, F., Bradley, A., James, R., Wardle, H., & Dymond, S. (2023). Gambling on Google: Tracking online searches in the United Kingdom for gambling activities and operators before, during and since COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2023.00055
McGarrigle, J., Dorey, L., Christensen, D., May, R.J., Hoon, A.E., & Dymond, S. (2023). ConGam-PS: Developing and evaluating a measurement tool of treatment providers’ views about contingency management for gambling. Addiction Research & Theory. DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2247978.
Williamson, G., Carr, E., Fear, N.T., Dymond, S., King, K., Simms, A., Goodwin, L., Murphy, D., & Leightley, D. (2023). Supporting women in the UK Armed Forces who consume alcohol at a hazardous or harmful level: A Randomized Controlled Trial – Study Protocol. JMIR – Research Protocols. http://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.51531
Rogers, J., Roberts, A. Sharman, S., Dymond, S., Ludvig, E., & Tunney, R. (2023). High stakes: Commentary on the 2023 UK Government White Paper on Gambling Reform. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.16286
Hitch, C., Leightley, D., Murphy, D., Trompeter, N., & Dymond, S. (2023). Acceptance and commitment therapy for co-occurring gambling disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans: A narrative review. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2178203 PDF
Cameron, G., Quigley, M., Zuj, D. V., & Dymond, S. (2023). Online counterconditioning with COVID-19-relevant stimuli in lockdown: Impact on threat expectancy, fear, and persistent avoidance. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 78, 101801. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101801PDF
Dighton, G., Wood, K., Armour, C., Fossey, M., Hogan, L., Kitchiner, N., Larcombe, J., Rogers, R. D., & Dymond, S. (2023). Gambling problems among United Kingdom Armed Forces veterans: Associations with gambling motivation and posttraumatic stress disorder. International Gambling Studies, 23, 35-56. doi: 10.1080/14459795.2022.2063923. PDF
Dymond, S., Xia, W., Lloyd, K., Schlund, M.W., & Zuj, D.V. (2023). Working hard to avoid: Fixed-ratio response effort and persistent avoidance in humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(8), 1889–1912. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221127660 dymond-et-al-2022-working-hard-to-avoid-fixed-ratio-response-effort-and-maladaptive-avoidance-in-humans
2022
Champion, H., Pritchard, A., Dighton, G., & Dymond, S. (2022). Gambling problems and help-seeking in serving United Kingdom military personnel: A qualitative study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1003457 PDF
Dorey, L., McGarrigle, J., May, R.J., Hoon, A.E., & Dymond, S. (2022). Client views of contingency management in gambling treatment: A thematic analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(24), 17101. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192417101PDF
Zolkwer, M., Dighton, G., Singer, B., & Dymond, S. (2022). Gambling problems among students attending university in the United Kingdom: Associations with gender, financial hardship, and year of study. Journal of Gambling Issues. doi:10.4309/FYPO3349 PDF
Quigley, M., Whiteford, S., Cameron, G., Zuj, D.V., & Dymond, S. (2022). Longitudinal assessment of COVID-19 fear and psychological wellbeing in the United Kingdom. Journal of Health Psychology. doi 10.1177/13591053221134848 PDF
Zuj, D. V., Dymond, S., Murray, S., Thomas, S., & Morriss, J. (2022). High intolerance of uncertainty predicts reduced reinstatement of threat expectancy to danger but not safety cues. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 13.
Ney, L., Laing, P., Steward, T., Zuj, D.V., Dymond, S., Harrison, B., Graham, B., & Felmingham, K. (2022). Methodological implications of sample size and extinction gradient on the robustness of fear extinction across different analytic strategies. PLoS ONE, 17(5): e0268814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268814
Whiteford, S., Hoon, A.E., James, R., Tunney, R., & Dymond, S. (2022). Quantile regression analysis of live-action betting in a large online gambling dataset. Computers in Human Behavior Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100194 PDF
Cameron, G., Zuj, D. V., Dymond, S., & Quigley, M. (2022). Remote, online assessment of avoidance learning in lockdown. Learning & Motivation, 78, 101805. doi: 10.1016/j.lmot.2022.101805 PDF
Dorey, L., Christensen, D. R., May, R., Hoon, A.E., & Dymond, S. (2022). Gambling treatment service providers’ views about contingency management: A thematic analysis. Harm Reduction Journal, 19:19. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00600-0 PDF
Bowden-Jones, H., Hook, R.W., Grant, J.E., Ioannidis, K., Corazza, O., Fineberg, N.A., Singer, B., Roberts, A.J., Bethlehem, R., Dymond, S., Romero-Garcia, R., Robbins, T.W., Cortese, S., Thomas, S.A., Sahakian, B.J., Dowling, N.A., & Chamberlain, S.R. (2022). Gambling Disorder in the United Kingdom: Key research priorities and the urgent need for independent research funding. The Lancet Psychiatry, 9, 321-329. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00356-4 PDF
Weidacker, K., Johnston, S. J., Mullins, P. G., Boy, F., & Dymond, S. (2022). Neurochemistry of response inhibition and interference in gambling disorder: A preliminary study of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA+) and glutamate-glutamine (Glx). CNS Spectrums, 27(4), 475-485. doi: 10.1017/S1092852921000316 PDF Read the Research Snapshot (GREO) here
Dymond, S. (2022). On scouring book shops: A note of gratitude for B.F. Skinner’s Science and Human Behavior. In Skinner, B. F. (2022). Ciencia y conducta humana (J. Virués Ortega, J. I. Navarro Guzmán, y C. Delgado Casas, eds.)., pp24-26; ABA España (Original publicado en 1953).
2021
Pritchard, A. J., & Dymond, S. (2021). Gambling problems and associated harms among United Kingdom Royal Air Force personnel. Addictive Behaviors. 1doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107200
Gunnarsdóttir Schram, A. Þ., & Dymond, S. (2021). Using goal setting with praise and antecedent intervention to decrease smartphone-based social media usage. Norwegian Journal of Behavior Analysis.PDF
Harris, S., Pockett, R. D., Dighton, G., Wood, K., Armour, C., Fossey, M., Hogan, L., Kitchiner, N., Larcombe, J., Rogers, R. D., & Dymond, S. (2023). Social and economic costs of gambling problems and related harm among UK military veterans. BMJ Military Health, 169, 413-418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2021-001892 413.full
Schenk, J.J., Keenan, M., Boelens, H.H., Dymond, S., & Smeets, P.M. (2021). Children’s emergent relations of equivalence using stimuli with opposite verbal labels: Exclusion and minimal training conditions. Behavioural Processes, 185, 104341. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104341
Marstaller, L., Al-Jiboury, R., Kemp, A. H., & Dymond, S. (2021). Rule-based generalization of threat without similarity. Biological Psychology, 160, 108042. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108042 OSF files PDF
Schlund, M. W., Carter, H., Cudd, G., Murphy, K., Ahmed, N., Dymond, S., & Tone, E. B. (2021). Human social defeat and approach-avoidance: Escalating social-evaluative threat and threat of aggression increases avoidance of social interactions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 115, 157-184. doi: 10.1002/jeab.654
Hoon, A. E., Freegard, G., & Dymond, S. (2021). Symbolic generalization of the near-miss in simulated slot-machine gambling. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 21, 13-25. doi: 10.1037/bar0000198 PDF
2020
Dymond, S., Ellis Owen, W., Hoon, A. E., Roderique-Davies, G., John, B., & Bowden-Jones, H. (2020). The need for gambling disorder clinics in Wales. The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32237-6
Zuj, D. V., Xia, W., Lloyd, K., Vervliet, B., & Dymond, S. (2020). Negative reinforcement rate and persistence of avoidance following response-prevention extinction. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 133, 1037111. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103711 PDF
Ney, L. J., Laing, P.A.F., Steward, T., Zuj, D. V., Dymond, S., & Felmingham, K. L. (2020). Inconsistent analytic strategies reduce robustness in fear extinction via skin conductance response. Psychophysiology, 57, e13650. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13650 PDF
Wardle, H., et al. (2020). Open letter from UK based academic scientists to the Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and for Health and Social Care regarding the need for independent funding for the prevention and treatment of gambling harms. British Medical Journal, 370:m2613 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2613
Bennett, M., Roche, B., Baeyens, F., Vervliet, B., Dymond, S., Whelan, R., & Hermans, D. (2020). Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviours reduces generalized avoidance in new contexts. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1747021820943148 Open Access
Wardle, H., John, A., Dymond, S., & McManus, S. (2020). Problem gambling and suicidality in England: Findings from a representative cross-sectional survey. Public Health, 184, 11-16. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.03.024 Open Access
Roberts, E., Dighton, G., Fossey, M., Hogan, L., Kitchiner, N., Rogers, R.D., & Dymond, S. (2020). Gambling problems and military- and health-related behaviour in UK Armed Forces veterans. Military Behavioral Health, 8, 212-221. doi: 10.1080/21635781.2019.1644263 Open Access
Weidacker, K., Johnston, S., Mullins, P. G., Boy, F., & Dymond, S. (2020). Impulsive decision-making and gambling severity: The influence of γ-amino-butyric acid (GABA) and glutamate-glutamine (Glx). European Neuropsychopharmacology, 32, 36-46. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.12.110 PDF
Smith, B. M., Smith, G. S., & Dymond, S. (2020). Relapse of anxiety-related fear and avoidance: A conceptual analysis of treatment with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 113, 87-104. doi: 10.1002/jeab.573 PDF
Schlund, M. W., Ludlum, M., Magee, S. K., Tone, E. B., Brewer, A., Richman, D. M., & Dymond, S. (2020). Renewal of fear and avoidance in humans to increasing threat: Implications for translational research on anxiety disorders. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 113, 153-171. doi: 10.1002/jeab.565 PDF
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, 112, 349-353. doi: 10.1002/jeab.555 PDF
Munnelly, A., Stewart, I., & Dymond, S. (2019). Symbolic generalization of discriminative functions in accordance with a five-member comparative relational network. The Psychological Record, 69, 529-540. doi: 10.1007/s40732-019-00350-9 PDF
Hoon, A. E., Samuels, L., Bickford, C., & Dymond, S. (2019). “This slot is hotter than that one”: Symbolic generalization of preference in simulated slot machine gambling. International Gambling Studies, 19, 432-450. doi: 10.1080/14459795.2019.1602159 PDF
Dymond, S., & Llewellyn, S. (2019). Time, sleep, and stimulus equivalence-based relational memory. The Psychological Record, 69, 9(3), 357-365. DOI: 10.1007/s40732-019-00343-8 PDF
Rogers, R. D., Sharp, C.A., Wardle, H., Wood, S., Dymond, S., Hughes, K., Davies, T.J., Astbury, G., & Bellis, M. A. (2019). Gambling as a public health issue in Wales. Public Health Wales.
Dymond, S. (2019). Overcoming avoidance in anxiety disorders: The contributions of Pavlovian and operant avoidance extinction methods. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 98, 61-70. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.007 PDF
Xia, W., Eyolfson, E., Lloyd, K., Vervliet, B., & Dymond, S. (2019). Living in fear: Low-cost avoidance maintains low-level threat. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 62, 57-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.09.001 PDF
2018
Ney, L., Wade, M., Reynolds, A., Zuj, D. V., Dymond, S., Matthews, A., & Felmingham, K. L. (2018). Critical evaluation of current data analysis strategies for psychophysiological measures of fear conditioning and extinction in humans. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 134, 95-107. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.10.010 PDF
Dighton, G., Roberts, E., Hoon, A. E., & Dymond. S. (2018). Gambling problems and the impact of family in UK armed forces veterans. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7, 355-365. doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.25 PDF
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, 189-213. doi: 10.1007/s40614-017-0133-6 PDF
Dymond, S., & May, R. J. (2018). Quantifying the empirical growth of relational frame theory research: A cautionary note. The Psychological Record, 68, 255-260. doi: 10.1007/s40732-018-0278-z PDF
Stewart, I., Slattery, B., Chambers, M., & Dymond, S. (2018). An empirical investigation of part-whole hierarchical relations. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 19, 115-124. doi: 10.1080/15021149.2017.1416525 PDF
2017
Stewart, I., Stephans, S., Roche, B., & Dymond, S. Learning science and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). (2017). In A. Gloster and A. Gerlach (Eds.), Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Worrying: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians and Researchers. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Xia, W., Dymond, S., Lloyd, K., & Vervliet. B. (2017). Partial reinforcement of avoidance and resistance to extinction in humans. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 96, 79-89. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.04.002 PDF Listen to the podcast from the Special Issue of Behaviour Research and Therapy.
May, R. J. Stewart, I., Baez, L., Freegard, G., & Dymond, S. (2017). Arbitrarily applicable spatial relational responding. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 107, 234-257. doi: 10.1002/jeab.250 PDF
Dymond, S., Molet, M., & Davies, L. (2017). The impact of arbitrarily applicable relational responding on evaluative learning about hypothetical money and shock outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 1684-1699. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1200639 PDF
Schlund, M. W., Treacher, K., Preston, O., Magee, S. K., Richman, D.M., Brewer, A. T., Cameron, G., & Dymond, S. (2017). “Watch out”!: Effects of instructed threat on human free-operant approach-avoidance behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 107, 101-122. doi: 10.1002/jeab.238 PDF
Jollans, E. K., Whelan, R., Venables, L., Turnbull, O. H., Cella, M., & Dymond, S. (2017). Computational EEG modelling of decision making under ambiguity reveals spatio-temporal dynamics of outcome evaluation. Behavioural Brain Research, 321, 28-35. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.12.033 PDF
2016
Dymond, S., & Stewart, I. (2016). Relational and analogical reasoning in comparative cognition. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 29, 1-11. PDF
Greville, W. J. S., Dymond, S., & Newton, P. M. (2016). The student experience of applied equivalence-based instruction for neuroanatomy teaching. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 13, 32. doi:/10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.32 PDF
Schlund, M. W., Brewer, A. T., Magee, S. K., Richman, D. M., Solomon, S., Ludlum, M., & Dymond, S. (2016). The tipping point: Value differences and parallel dorsal-ventral frontal circuits gating human approach-avoidance behavior. NeuroImage, 136, 94-105. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.070 PDF [SU press release]
May, R. J., Downs, R., Marchant, A., & Dymond, S. (2016 ). Emergent verbal behavior in preschool children learning a second language. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 49, 1-6. doi: 10.1002/jaba.301 PDF
Boyle, S., Roche, B., Dymond, S., & Hermans, D. (2016). Generalization of fear and avoidance along a semantic continuum. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 340-352. doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.1000831 PDF *Read a description of the study in the KU Leuven CLEP Newsletter:* Newsletter_CfE_June_2016.
Cameron, G., Roche, B., Schlund, M.W., & Dymond, S. (2016). Learned, instructed and observed pathways to fear and avoidance. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50, 106-112. doi: 10.1016/j.btep.201506.003. PDF
2015
Dymond, S., Dunsmoor, J. E., Vervliet, B., Roche, B., & Hermans, D. (2015). Fear generalization in humans: Systematic review and implications for anxiety disorder research. Behavior Therapy, 46, 561-582. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2014.10.001 PDF *Highly cited review*
Still, K., May, R.J., Rehfeldt, R.A., Whelan, R., & Dymond. S. (2015). Facilitating derived requesting skills with a touchscreen tablet computer for children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 19, 44-58. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2015.04.006 PDF
Allcoat, D., Greville, W. J., Newton, P. M., Roche, B., & Dymond, S. (2015). Frozen with fear: Conditioned suppression in a virtual reality model of human anxiety. Behavioural Processes, 118, 98-101. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2015.06.011 PDF
Cameron, G., Schlund, M. W. & Dymond, S. (2015). Generalization of socially transmitted and instructed avoidance. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9:159. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00159 PDF
Schlund, M. W., Brewer, A., Richman, D., Magee, S., & Dymond, S. (2015). Not so bad: Avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9:142. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00142 PDF
Bennett, M., Hermans, D., Dymond, S., Vervoort, E., & Baeyens, F. (2015). From bad to worse: Symbolic equivalence and opposition in fear generalization. Cognition & Emotion, 29, 1137-1145. doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.973833 PDF
Briggs, Z., O’Connor, M., Jollans, E. K., O’Halloran, L., Dymond, S., & Whelan, R. (2015). Flexible emotion-based decision-making behavior varies in current and former smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 45, 269-275. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.02.01 PDF
2014
Still, K., Rehfeldt, R.A., Whelan, R., May, R. J., & Dymond, S. (2014). Facilitating requesting skills using high-tech augmentative and alternative communication devices with individuals with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8, 1184-1199. PDF
Greville, W.J., Dymond, S., Newton, P.M., & Roche, B. (2014). Acquired equivalence and generalized suppression in a virtual reality environment. Learning & Behavior, 42, 123-130. PDF
Weatherly, J. N., Dymond, S., Samuels, L., Austin, J. L., & Terrell, H. K. (2014). Validating the Gambling Functional Assessment–Revised in a United Kingdom sample. Journal of Gambling Studies, 30, 335-347. PDF
Dymond, S., Lawrence, N.S., Dunkley, B., Yuen, S.L.K., Hinton, E.C., Dixon, M.R., Cox, W. M., Hoon, A.E., Munnelly, A., Muthukumaraswamy, S.D., & Singh, K.S. (2014). Almost winning: Induced MEG theta power in insula and orbitofrontal cortex increases during gambling near-misses and is associated with BOLD signal and gambling severity. NeuroImage, 91, 210-219. PDF
Munnelly, A., & Dymond, S. (2014). Relational memory generalization and integration in a transitive inference task with and without instructed awareness. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 109, 169-177. PDF
Dymond, S., Schlund, M. W., 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. PDF
Walsh, S., Horgan, J., May, R.J., Dymond, S., & Whelan, R. (2014). Facilitating relational framing in children and individuals with developmental delay using the Relational Completion Procedure. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 101, 51-60. PDF
Dymond, S. (2014). Meaning is more than associations: Relational operants and the search for derived relations in nonhumans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 101, 152-155. PDF
2013
Edited book – Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (Eds.) (2013). Advances in Relational Frame Theory: Research & Application. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. LINK
Hoon, A. E., & Dymond, S. (2013). Altering preferences for concurrently available simulated slot machines: Nonarbitrary contextual control over gambling choice. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 7, 35-52. PDF
Schlund, M. W., Hudgins, C. D., Magee, S., & Dymond, S. (2013). Neuroimaging the temporal dynamics of human avoidance to sustained threat. Behavioural Brain Research, 257, 148-155. PDF
Munnelly, A., Freegard, G., & Dymond, S. (2013). Constructing relational sentences: Establishing arbitrarily applicable comparative relations with the Relational Completion Procedure. The Psychological Record, 63, 751-768. PDF
Dymond, S., Lawrence, N.S., & Yuen, K.S.L. (2013). Neurocognitive mechanisms of impaired decision making in pathological gambling. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 4:12. doi: 10.3389/ fpsyt.2013.00012 PDF
Willner, P., Bridle, J., Price, V., Dymond, S., & Lewis, G. (2013). What do NHS staff learn from Mental Capacity Act training? Legal and Criminological Psychology, 18, 83-101. PDF
Dymond, S., Haselgrove, M., & McGregor, A. (2013). Clever crows or unbalanced birds? (Letter). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 110(5), E336. PDF
Greville, W.J., Newton, P.M., Roche, B., & Dymond, S. (2013). Conditioned suppression in a virtual environment. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 552–558. PDF
Wang, T., & Dymond, S. (2013). Event-related potential correlates of emergent inference in human arbitrary relational learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 236, 332-343. PDF
Dymond, S., Ng, T. C., & Whelan, R. (2013). Establishing arbitrarily applicable relations of same and opposite with the Relational Completion Procedure: Selection-based feedback. The Psychological Record, 63, 1-20. PDF
May, R.J., Hawkins, E., & Dymond, S. (2013). Effects of tact training on emergent intraverbal vocal responses in adolescents with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 996-1004. PDF
2012
Dymond, S., Schlund, M.W., Roche, B., De Houwer, J., & Freegard, G. (2012). Safe from harm: Learned, instructed, and symbolic generalization pathways of human threat-avoidance. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e47539. PDF
Cella, M., Dymond, S., Cooper, A., & Turnbull, O. (2012). Cognitive decision modelling of emotion-based learning impairment in schizophrenia: The role of awareness. Psychiatry Research, 196, 15-19. PDF
Dymond, S., McCann, K., Griffiths, J., Cox, A., & Crocker, V. (2012). Emergent response allocation and outcome ratings in slot machine gambling. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26, 99-111. PDF
2011
Dymond, S., Schlund, M., 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. PDF
Pitts, L., & Dymond, S. (2011). Increasing compliance of children with autism: Effects of programmed reinforcement for high-probability requests and varied inter-instruction intervals. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6, 135-143. PDF
May, R. J., Austin, J. L., & Dymond, S. (2011). Effects of a stimulus prompt display on therapists’ accuracy, rate, and variation of trial type delivery during discrete trial teaching. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5, 305-316. PDF
Willner, P., Bridle, J., Dymond, S., & Lewis, G. (2011). What do newly appointed health staff know about the Mental Capacity Act (2005)? Medicine, Science, and the Law. 51(2), 97-101. PDF
Willner, P., Bailey, R., Dymond, S., & Parry, R. (2011). Coins and costs: A simple and rapid assessment of basic financial knowledge. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability, 24, 285-289. PDF
Bailey, R., Willner, P., & Dymond, S. (2011). A visual aid to decision-making for people with intellectual disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32, 37-46. PDF
Slater, C., & Dymond, S. (2011). Improving equine welfare: Using differential reinforcement to shape appropriate equine behaviour during truck loading and feet handling. Behavioural Processes, 86, 329-339. PDF
2010
Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (2010). The impact of derived relational responding on gambling behavior. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 4, 1-16. PDF
Dymond, S., Bateman, H., & Dixon, M. R. (2010). Derived transformation of children’s pre-gambling game playing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 94, 353-363. PDF
Munnelly, A., Dymond, S., & Hinton, E. C. (2010). Relational reasoning with derived comparative relations: A novel model of transitive inference. Behavioural Processes, 85, 8-17. PDF
Dymond, S., & Whelan, R. (2010). Derived relational responding: A comparison of matching-to-sample and the relational completion procedure. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 94, 37-55. PDF
Dymond, S., May, R. J., Munnelly, A., & Hoon, A. E. (2010). Evaluating the evidence base for relational frame theory: A citation analysis. The Behavior Analyst, 33, 97-117. PDF
Cella, M., Dymond, S., & Cooper, A. (2010). Impaired flexible decision-making in major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 124, 207-210. PDF
Hinton, E. C., Dymond, S., von Hecker, U., & Evans, C. J. (2010). Neural correlates of relational reasoning and the symbolic distance effect: Involvement of parietal cortex. Neuroscience, 168, 138-148. [Corrigendum, 170, 1345.] PDF
Willner, P., Bailey, R., Parry, R., & Dymond, S. (2010). Evaluation of executive functioning in people with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54, 366-379. PDF
Willner, P., Bailey, R., Parry, R., & Dymond, S. (2010). Evaluation of the ability of people with intellectual disabilities to ‘weigh-up’ information in two tests of financial reasoning. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54, 380-391.PDF
Dymond, S., & Alonso-Álvarez, B. (2010). The selective impact of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior on empirical research: A reply to Schlinger (2008). The Psychological Record, 60, 355-360. PDF
Dymond, S., Cella, M., Cooper, A., & Turnbull, O. H. (2010). The contingency-shifting variant Iowa Gambling Task: An investigation with young adults. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32, 239-248. PDF
Willner, P., Bailey, R., Parry, R., & Dymond, S. (2010). Performance in temporal discounting tasks by people with intellectual disabilities reveals difficulties in decision-making and impulse control. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 115, 157-171. PDF
Dymond, S., Bailey, R., Willner, P., & Parry, R. (2010). Symbol labelling improves advantageous decision-making on the Iowa Gambling Task in people with intellectual disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 31, 536-544. PDF
2009
Cella, M., Dymond, S., & Cooper, A. (2009). Impairment in flexible emotion-based learning in hallucination- and delusion-prone individuals. Psychiatry Research, 170, 70-74. PDF
Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (2009). A contemporary behavior analysis of anxiety and avoidance. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 7-28. PDF or Here
2008
Dymond, S., (2008). Approaching gambling as a verbal event: Commentary on Fantino & Stolarz-Fantino (2008). Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 2, 79-81.
Cella, M., Cooper, A., Dymond, S., & Reed, P. (2008). The relationship between dysphoria and proneness to hallucination and delusions in young adults. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49, 544-550. PDF
Hoon, A., Dymond, S., Jackson, J., & Dixon, M. R. (2008). Contextual control of slot machine gambling: Replication and extension. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 41, 467-470. PDF
Roche, B., Kanter, J. W., Brown, K. R., Dymond, S., & Fogarty, C. C. (2008). A comparison of “direct” versus “derived” extinction of avoidance. The Psychological Record, 58, 443-464. PDF
Dymond, S., Roche, B., Forsyth, J. P., Whelan, R., & Rhoden, J. (2008). Derived avoidance learning: Transformation of avoidance response functions in accordance with the relational frames of same and opposite. The Psychological Record, 58, 271-288. PDF
Roche, B., & Dymond, S. (2008). A transformation of functions in accordance with the non-arbitrary relational properties of sexual stimuli. The Psychological Record, 58, 70-91. PDF
2007
Hoon, A., Dymond, S., Jackson, J., & Dixon, M. R. (2007). Manipulating contextual control over simulated slot machine gambling. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 109-122. PDF
Dymond, S., & Ferguson, D. (2007). Toward a behavioral analysis of humor: Derived transfer of self-reported humor ratings. The Behavior Analyst Today, 8, 500-511.
McHugh, L., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Barnes-Holmes, D., Stewart, I., & Dymond, S. (2007). Deictic relational complexity and the development of deception. The Psychological Record, 57, 517-531. PDF
Dymond, S., Roche, B., Forsyth, J. P., Whelan, R., & Rhoden, J. (2007). Transformation of avoidance response functions in accordance with the relational frames of same and opposite. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 88, 249-262. PDF
Dymond, S., & Whelan, R. (2007). Verbal relations and the behaviour analysis of gambling. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 19-20. PDF
Cella, M., Dymond, S., Cooper, A., & Turnbull, O. (2007). Effects of decision-phase time constraints on emotion-based learning in the Iowa Gambling Task. Brain and Cognition, 64, 164-169. PDF
2006
Whelan, R., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Dymond, S. (2006). The transformation of consequential functions in accordance with the relational frames of more-than and less-than. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 86, 317-335. PDF
Dymond, S., O’Hora, D., Whelan, R., & O’Donovan, A. (2006). Citation analysis of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior: 1984-2004. The Behavior Analyst, 29, 75-88. PDF
2005
Barnes-Holmes, D., Staunton, C., Whelan, R., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Commins, S., Walsh, D., Stewart, I., Smeets, P. M., & Dymond, S. (2005). Derived stimulus relations, semantic priming, and event-related potentials: Testing a behavioral theory of semantic networks. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, 417-433. PDF
Regan, D., Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Walsh, D., Stewart, I., Smeets, P.M., Whelan, R., & Dymond, S. (2005). Relating derived relations as a model of analogical reasoning: Reaction times and event related potentials. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, 435-451. PDF
Dymond, S., & McHugh, L. (2005). Symbolic behaviour and perspective taking are forms of derived relational responding and can be learned. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 697. PDF
Dymond, S., Whelan, R., & Smeets, P. M. (2005). A transformation of discriminative functions in accordance with equivalence relations. European Journal of Behaviour Analysis, 6, 111-123.
Dymond, S., Roche, B., & Rehfeldt, R. A. (2005). Relational frame theory and the transformation of stimulus functions. Revista Latinamericana de Psicologia, 37(2), 291-303. PDF
Dymond, S., Rehfeldt, R. A., & Schenk, J. J. (2005). Nonautomated procedures in derived stimulus relations research: A methodological note. The Psychological Record, 55, 461-482. PDF
Rehfeldt, R. A., & Dymond, S. (2005). The effects of test order and nodal distance on the emergence and maintenance of derived discriminative stimulus functions. The Psychological Record, 55, 179-196. PDF
2004
Roche, B., Linehan, C., Ward, T., Dymond, S., & Rehfeldt, R. A. (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(3), 587-603.
Barnes-Holmes, D., Staunton, C., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Whelan, R., Stewart, I., Commins, S., Walsh, D., Smeets, P. M., & Dymond, S. (2004). Interfacing relational frame theory with cognitive neuroscience: Semantic priming, The Implicit Association Test, and event related potentials. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4(2), 215-240.
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. PDF
Dymond, S., Roche, B, & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2003). The continuity strategy, human behavior, and behavior analysis. The Psychological Record, 53, 333-347. PDF
Roche, B., & Dymond, S. (2003). Computer-interfacing for dummies: Interfacing peripheral devices to your Macintosh PC. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 21, 8-11. PDF
2002
Dymond, S. (2002). The next generation: Authorship trends in the experimental analysis of human behavior, (1980 – 1999). Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 20, 1-8. PDF
Dymond, S., & Critchfield, T. S. (2002). A legacy of growth: Human operant research in The Psychological Record, 1980-1999. The Psychological Record, 52, 99-106. PDF
2001
Dymond, S., & Critchfield, T.S. (2001). Neither dark age nor renaissance: Research and authorships trends in the experimental analysis of human behavior (1980-1999). The Behavior Analyst, 24, 241-253. PDF
Dymond, S. (2001). Beyond equivalence: The transformation of functions and multiple stimulus relations. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 2, 59-62.
Dymond, S., & Rehfeldt, R. A. (2001). Supplemental measures of derived stimulus relations. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 19, 8-12. PDF
2000-1994
Dymond, S., & Rehfeldt, R. (2000). Understanding complex behaviour: The transformation of stimulus functions. The Behavior Analyst, 23, 239-254. PDF
Dymond, S., Clarke, S., Dunlap, G., & Steiner, M. (2000). International publication trends of JABA authorship. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 33, 339-342. PDF
Smeets, P. M., Dymond, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2000). Instructions, stimulus equivalence, and stimulus sorting: Effects of sequential testing arrangements and a default option. The Psychological Record, 50, 339-354. PDF
Barnes-Holmes, D., Dymond, S., Roche, B, & Grey, I. (1999). Behaviour analysis: A new agenda for language and cognition. The Psychologist: Bulletin of The British Psychological Society, 12, 500-504. PDF
Dymond, S., & Barnes, D. (1998). The effects of prior equivalence testing and detailed verbal instructions on derived self-discrimination transfer: A follow-up study. The Psychological Record, 48, 147-170.
Dymond, S. (1997). International publication trends in the experimental analysis of behaviour. The Behavior Analyst, 20, 109-119.
Dymond, S., & Barnes, D. (1997). Interpolated training and testing and derived self-discrimination transfer. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 15, 19-23.
Dymond, S., & Barnes, D. (1997). Behaviour-analytic approaches to self-awareness. The Psychological Record, 47, 181-200. PDF
Dymond, S., Gomez-Martin, S., & Barnes, D. (1996). Multi-modal conditional discrimination in rats: Some preliminary findings. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 17, 269-281. doi: 10.1080/3033910.1996.10558108 PDF
Dymond, S. & Barnes, D. (1996). A transformation of self-discrimination response functions in accordance with the arbitrarily applicable relations of sameness and opposition. The Psychological Record, 46, 271-300.
Dymond, S. (1995). Conditional discrimination responding in nonhumans. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 16, 333-345. doi:10.1080/03033910.1995.10558069 PDF
Dymond, S., & Barnes, D. (1995). A transformation of self-discrimination response functions in accordance with the arbitrarily applicable relations of sameness, more than, and less than. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 64, 163-184. PDF
Dymond, S., & Barnes, D. (1994). A transfer of self-discrimination response functions through equivalence relations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 62, 251-267. PDF
Book Chapters
Stewart, I., Stevens, S., Roche, B., & Dymond, S. (2020). Learning science and generalised anxiety disorder.. In Gerlach, A., and Gloster, A. (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. John Wiley & Sons.
Friman, P. C., & Dymond, S. (2020). The fear factor: A functional perspective on anxiety. In P. Sturmey (Ed.), Functional analysis in clinical treatment (pp. 375–398). Academic Press. Anxiety.
May, R. J., & Dymond, S. (2014). Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires in individuals with autism and other developmental disorders: Insights from behaviour analysis. In J. Arciuli & J. Brock (Eds.), Communication in Autism (pp. 29-51). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF
Dymond, S., Roche, B., & Bennett, M. (2013). Relational frame theory and experimental psychopathology. In Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (Eds.). Advances in Relational Frame Theory: Research & Application (pp.199-218). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger
Barnes-Holmes, D., Hayes, S. C., Dymond, S., & O’Hora, D. (2001). Multiple stimulus relations and the transformation of stimulus functions. In Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.), Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition (pp. 51- 71). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Barnes-Holmes, D., Hayes, S. C., & Dymond, S. (2001). Self and self-directed rules. In Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.), Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition (pp. 119-139). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Barnes-Holmes, D., Stewart, I., Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (2000). A behaviour-analytic approach to some of the problems of the self: A relational frame analysis. In M. Dougher (Ed.), Clinical behavior analysis (pp. 47-74). Reno, NV: Context Press.
Book Reviews
Dymond, S., Austin, J. L., Hoon, A., & Tepaeru Minster, S. (2007). Review of Gambling: Behavior theory, research, and application by Patrick M. Ghezzi, Charles A. Lyons, Mark R. Dixon, and Ginger R. Wilson (Eds.). Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 145-151.
Dymond, S. (2005). Learning across the life span. A review of Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach, by Gary Novak and Martha Peláez. 2004. London: Sage. Infant and Child Development, 14, 430-432.
Dymond, S. (2005). Learning is the developmental process and behavior analysis has a lot to say about complex human behavior: A review of Novak and Peláez’s (2004) Child and adolescent development: A behavioral systems approach. Behavior Development Bulletin, 1(1), 80-81.
Dymond, S. (1998). Review of T. R. Zentall & P. M. Smeets (Eds.) Stimulus class formation in humans and animals. Amsterdam: Elsevier. The Psychological Record, 48, 346-347.
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