I completed a BA in Applied Psychology at University College Cork and graduated in 2011. Following this, I came to the University of Limerick and completed an MSc in Psychological Science (Applied & Social Psychology Stream), graduating in January 2013. Shortly afterwards, I began a PhD, supervised by Prof. Eric R. Igou (University of Limerick) and Dr. Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg (University of Essex). For my PhD, I investigated the effects of boredom and disbelief in free will on hedonic and interpersonal behaviours using existential psychological perspectives. I graduated in 2017. In January 2018, I began a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), a research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the European Regional Development Fund, the Geological Survey of Ireland, and industry partners at University College Dublin. I worked on a project about the public's perception of geosciences and related activities, supervised by Dr. Geertje Schuitema (University College Dublin). In August 2018, I began a lecturing position in the University of Limerick.
Research Interests
My research interests are in social, existential, hedonic, and personality psychology. In general, I'm interested in how people engage in hedonic and interpersonal behaviours as a means to escape from threats to meaning in life and variables that promote or hinder these tendencies. I'm also interested in research on social and gender identities.
Professional Activities
Award
2022 - Research Mobility Grant
2022 - Faculty Seed Funding
2021 - Societal Relevance of Social Psychology Grant
2018 - James M. Flaherty Research Scholarship
2018 - Research Funding
2017 - PhD Scholar's Bursary
2014 - Residential Scholarship
2014 - Structured PhD Research Support Funds
2014 - Diversity Travel Award
2013 - Fee Waiver
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Full Member, European Association of Social Psychology
Moynihan, A. B., Guinote, A., Igou, E. R. (2023) Relational dynamics and meaning in life: Dominance predicts perceived social support, belongingness, and meaning in life. .
Personality And Individual Differences
Bambrah, V., Moynihan, A. B., & Eastwood, J. D. (2023) Self-focused but lacking self-knowledge: The relation between boredom and self-perception.
Journal of Boredom Studies :1-26
Andrew B. Moynihan;Eric R. Igou;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg; (2022) Pornography consumption as existential escape from boredom.
Personality And Individual Differences
Muldoon OT;Jay S;O'Donnell AT;Winterburn M;Moynihan AB;O'Connell BH;Choudhary R;Jha K;Sah AK; (2022) Health literacy among self-help leprosy group members reduces stereotype endorsement and stigma-related harm in rural Nepal..
Health & social care in the community
Moynihan, A. B., Igou, E. R., & Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2022) Pornography Consumption as Existential Escape From Boredom.
Personality And Individual Differences
Kosakowska-Berezecka, N et al., (2022) Gendered self-views across 62 countries: A test of competing models. .
Social Psychological And Personality Science
Bosson et al., (2021) Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations..
Journal Of Cross-Cultural Psychology :231-258
Moynihan, A. B., Igou, E. R., & Van Tilburg, W. A. P (2021) Existential escape of the bored: A review of meaning-regulation processes under boredom.
European Review Of Social Psychology :161-200
Moynihan A.B.;Igou E.R.;van Tilburg W.A.P. (2021) Bored stiff: The relationship between meaninglessness, sexual sensation seeking, and promiscuous attitudes via boredom susceptibility.
Personality And Individual Differences
Jay S.;Winterburn M.;Choudhary R.;Jha K.;Sah A.K.;O'Connell B.H.;O'Donnell A.T.;Moynihan A.B.;Muldoon O.T. (2021) From social curse to social cure: A self-help group community intervention for people affected by leprosy in Nepal.
Journal Of Community &Amp; Applied Social Psychology
Kosakowska-Berezecka, N. et al. (2020) Country-level and individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries.
European Journal Of Social Psychology
Moynihan A.B.;Schuitema G. (2020) Values influence public acceptability of geoengineering technologies via self-identities.
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Moynihan, A. B.; Igou, E. R.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2019) Lost in the crowd: Conformity as escape following disbelief in free will..
European Journal Of Social Psychology :503-520
Van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Igou, E. R.; Maher, P. J.; Moynihan, A. B.; Martin, D. G. (2018) Bored Like Hell: Religiosity Reduces Boredom and Tempers the Quest for Meaning..
Emotion :255-269
Moynihan, A. B.; Igou, E. R.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2016) Free, Connected, and Meaningful: Free Will Beliefs Promote Meaningfulness Through Belongingness.
Personality And Individual Differences :54-65
Moynihan, A. B.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Igou, E. R.; Wisman, A.; Donnelly, A. E.; Mulcaire, J. (2015) Eaten Up by Boredom: Consuming Food to Escape Awareness of The Bored Self..
Frontiers in psychology
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Moynihan, A. B.; Igou, E. R.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2019) Boredom Symposium, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Annual Conference.
Moynihan, A. B.; Igou, E. R.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2015) Engaging the Wandering Mind: Exploring the Cognitive, Neural, and Applied Aspects of Boredom Workshop.
Moynihan, A. B.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Igou, E. R.; Wisman, A.; Donnelly, A. E.; Mulcaire, J. (2014) P.S.I & N.I.B.P.S Psychology, Medicine, and Health Annual Conference..
Moynihan, A. B.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Igou, E. R.; Wisman, A.; Donnelly, A. E.; Mulcaire, J. (2014) Transfer of Knowledge Conference of the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON).
Moynihan, A. B.; Van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Igou, E. R.; Wisman, A.; Donnelly, A. E.; Mulcaire, J. (2014) Midwestern Psychological Association's Annual Meeting..
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