Dr Michael O'Connell BA, Dip Stat, MSC, PhD.
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Biography:
1985-1989 BA (Ist class Hons, Graduate Psychology Prize) Psychology and Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin University |
Research Interests
| Social psychology including attitudes |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : Combat Poverty Agency Title : The Influence of Educational-Related Beliefs on Persistence versus Drop-Out from Secondary School. Start Date / End Date : 01-AUG-08 / 30-SEP-09 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : The influence of educational related beliefs in persistence versus drop out from secondary school Start Date / End Date : 26-MAY-08 / 01-DEC-09 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Assessing the Public Understanding and Experience of Crime Start Date / End Date : 01-MAR-01 / 30-SEP-01 |
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : The European Social Survey, Second Round Start Date / End Date : 01-JAN-05 / 31-DEC-05 |
| Sponsor : RTE Title : Images of disability in the media Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-98 / 31-AUG-02 |
| Sponsor : RTE Title : Images of disability in the media and the public's perception of it Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-00 / 30-SEP-02 |
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Books
Moran, A. P., and O'Connell, M.; (2006) Timeless Wisdom: What Irish Proverbs Tell Us About Ourselves. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.  [Details] |
| Michael O'Connell; (2003) Right-Wing Ireland ? The Rise of Populism in Ireland and Europe. Dublin: The Liffey Press. Dublin: Liffey Press. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (2001) Changed Utterly: Ireland and the New Irish Psyche. Dublin: The Liffey Press. [Details] |
| Ivana Bacik, Michael O'Connell; (1998) Crime and poverty in Ireland. Dublin: Round Hall, Sweet and Maxwell. [Details] |
| MacLachlan, M. & O'Connell, M.; (2000) Cultivating Pluralism: Psychological, Social & Cultural Perspectives on a changing Ireland. Dublin: Oak Tree Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| O'Connell, M., Winston, N.; (2006) 'Changing attitudes towards minorities in Ireland (Chapter one)' In: J. Garry, N. Hardiman, D. Payne (eds). Irish Social and Political Attitudes. Liverpool: University of Liverpool. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (2002) 'Assessment of the crime rate in Ireland: Issues and considerations' In: P. O'Mahony (eds). Criminal Justice in Ireland. Dublin: IPA. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (2002) 'The portrayal of crime in the media: Does it matter ?' In: P. O'Mahony (eds). Criminal Justice in Ireland. Dublin: IPA. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (2002) 'Social Psychological Principles: the Group Inside the Person' In: R. Fuller, J. Santos (eds). Human Factors for Highway Engineers. London: Pergamon. [Details] |
| Casey, S. & M. O'Connell,; (2000) 'Pain and prejudice: Assessing the experience of racism in Ireland' In: in M. MacLachlan & M. OConnell (Eds.), Dublin: Oak Tree Press (eds). Cultivating Pluralism: Psychological, Social & Cultural Perspectives on a changing Ireland. Dublin: Oak Tree Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Gerber, SJ; O'Connell, MF (2012) 'Protective Processes: the function of young people's implicit theories of crime in offending behaviour'. Psychology, Crime and Law, 18 (9):781-795. [DOI] [Details] |
| Freeney, Y; O'Connell, M (2012) 'The predictors of the intention to leave school early among a representative sample of Irish second-level students'. British Educational Research Journal, 38 (4):557-574. [DOI] [Details] |
| Sinnamon, S., Moran, A., and O'Connell, M.; (2012) 'Flow among musicians: Measuring peak experiences of student performers'. Journal of Research in Music Education, 60 (1):6-25. [DOI] [Details] |
| O'Connell, M. and Sheikh, H.; (2011) ''Big Five' personality dimensions and social attainment: Evidence from beyond the campus'. Personality and Individual Differences, 50 :828-833. [DOI] [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (2011) 'How do high-skilled natives view high-skilled immigrants? A test of trade theory predictions'. European Journal of Political Economy, 27 (2):230-240. [DOI] [Details] |
| Freeney, Y. and O'Connell, M.; (2011) 'The intention to leave education early among Irish Junior Certificate Students: Variation by school'. Irish Educational Studies, 30 (3):305-321. [Details] | |||||||||
| Freeney, Y. and O'Connell, M.; (2010) 'Wait for it: Delay-discounting and academic performance among an Irish adolescent sample'. Learning and Individual Differences, 20 :231-236. [DOI] [Details] |
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| O'Connell, M. and Sheikh, H.; (2009) 'Non-cognitive abilities and early school dropout: longitudinal evidence from NELS'. Educational Studies, 35 (4):475-479. [DOI] [Details] |
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| O'Connell, M. and Synnott, J.; (2009) 'A position of influence: Variation in offender identification rates by location in a lineup'. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 6 :139-149. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Meade, S. and O'Connell, M.; (2008) 'Complex and contradictory accounts: The Social Representations of immigrants and ethnic minorities held by Irish Teenagers'. Translocations: Migration and Social Change, 4 (1):70-85. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Connell, M. & Sheikh, H.; (2008) 'Achievement-related attitudes and the fate of "at-risk" groups in society'. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29 :508-521. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Connell, M. & Sheikh, H.; (2007) 'Growth in career earnings and the role of achievement-related traits'. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28 :590-605. [Details] | |||||||||
| OConnell, M.; (2005) 'Economic forces and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe: A paradox in search of an explanation'. Patterns of Prejudice, 39 (1):60-74. [Details] |
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| O'Connell, M.; (2004) 'Fairly satisfied: Economic equality, wealth and satisfaction'. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY, 25 (3):297-305. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Connell, M.; (2003) 'Anti-social capital: Civic values versus economic equality in the EU'. European Sociological Review, 19 (3):241-248. [Details] |
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| Leddy, J. & O'Connell, M.; (2002) 'The prevalence, nature and psychological correlates of bullying in Irish prisons'. LEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 7 :131-140. [Details] | |||||||||
| Curry, P; O'Connell, MF; ; (2000) 'Post-materialist values and political preference: Some unlikely findings from Northern Ireland'. European Journal of Political Research, 37 (1):19-30. [Details] | |||||||||
| OConnell, M.; (1999) 'Is Irish public opinion towards crime distorted by media bias?'. European Journal of Communication, 14 :191-212. [Details] | |||||||||
| Casey, S. & O'Connell, M.; (1999) 'The influence of consequentiality on perceptions of crime seriousness'. LEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 4 :265-271. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Connell, M., Invernizzi, F. & Fuller, R.; (1998) 'Newspaper readership and the perception of crime: Testing an assumed relationship through a triangulation of methods'. LEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 3 :29-57. [Details] | |||||||||
| Houghton, S., O'Connell, M. & O'Flaherty, A.; (1998) 'The use of the Child Depression Inventory in an Irish context'. IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 19 :313-331. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Connell, M. & Whelan, A.T.; (1997) 'The public perception of crime prevalence, newspaper readership and mean world attitudes'. LEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1 :179-195. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Connell, M.; (1997) 'The raw and the cooked - two types of public opinion'. PSR (Papers on Social Representations, Textes sur les representations sociales), 6 :37-49. [Details] |
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| O'Connell, M. & Whelan, A.T.; (1996) 'Taking wrongs seriously: The public perceptions of crime seriousness'. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, 36 :299-318. [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| O'Connell, M., and Moran, A.; (2008) 'Irish proverbs - what they really say about us' Irish Roots 65 :8-9. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M. & Kirwan, G.; (2001) 'Crime victimisation in Dublin revisited' Irish Criminal Law Journal 11 (2) :10-133. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (2000) 'The volume of crime in Ireland - Crime surveys and official figures' Irish Criminal Law Journal 10 (2) :7-11. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (1997) 'Guest editor's foreword' Irish Criminal Law Journal :2-3. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M.; (1997) 'Crime and poverty in Ireland: An analysis of the association between community deprivation, District Court appearance and sentence severity' Irish Criminal Law Journal 7 (1) :4-32. [Details] |
| O'Connell, M. & Whelan, A.T.; (1994) 'Crime victimisation in Dublin' Irish Criminal Law Journal 4 (1) :85-112. [Details] | |||||||||
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Conference Publications
| Egan, A., Moran, A., Hennessy, E., O'Connell, M.; (2005) Evaluating a learning skills intervention for First Year students in University College, Dublin European Conference on Educational Research , 05-AUG-05 - 09-AUG-05 [Details] |
| Egan, A., Moran, A., Hennessy, E., and O'Connell, M.; (2004) The design, implementation and evaluation of a critical thinking programme for Psychology students 35th Annual Conference of The Psychological Society of Ireland Cork, , 18-NOV-04 [Details] |
| S. Cromie, D.W. Forrest, A.G. Gallagher, M. O'Connell, J. Quigley, H.V. Smith, K.J. Tierney and T.J. Timble; Fifth European Congress of Psychology Abstracts Fifth European Congress of Psychology, 1997 UCD, Dublin, [Details] |
| Egan, A., Moran, A., Hennessy, E., O'Connell, M.; (2005) The design, implementation and evaluation of a learning skills intervention for First Year Psychology students European Conference on Educational Research , 05-SEP-05 - 10-SEP-05 [Details] |
| Egan, A., Moran, A., Hennessy, E., O'Connell, M.; (2005) Evaluating a learning skills intervention for First Year students in University College, Dublin European Conference on Educational Research , 05-AUG-05 - 09-AUG-05 [Details] |
Published Reports
| Freeney, Y. and O'Connell, M.; (2009) Psychological, Economic and Academic Predictors of the Intention to Leave School Early among a Sample of Irish Students. Combat Poverty Agency, Dublin. [Details] |
Reports
| O'Connell, M.; (1998) Victims and Sentencing. Dublin: Reports [Details] |
| Corbett, C., OConnell, M. & Simon, F.; (1998) The deterrence of high speed driving: A criminological perspective. Berkshire: Reports [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 1997. Title: Guest editor, Irish Criminal Law Journal |
| Year: 1989. Title: Graduate Psychology Prize - Trinity College Dublin |
Employment
| Employer: University College Dublin. Position: Lecturer in Social Psychology |
| Employer: Trinity College Dublin Position: Lecturer in Social Psychology |
| Employer: Brunel University Position: Research Fellow |
Education
| Year 1996 Institution: Trinity College Dublin Qualification: PhD Subject: |
| Year 1998 Institution: Trinity College Dublin Qualification: H.Dip.Stats Subject: Statistics |
| Year 1989 Institution: Trinity College Dublin Qualification: BA Subject: |
| Year 1991 Institution: London School of Economics & Political Science, UK Qualification: MSc Subject: |
Internal Collaborators
| Prof. Aidan Moran, School of Psychology, UCD Dr. Yseult Freeney, School of Psychology, UCD |
External Collaborators
| Hammad Sheikh, New School for Social Research, New York Anthony Whelan, (formerly) School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin University |