Dr Eoin O'Sullivan

Associate Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463059

Email

epo1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

I am an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. I currently teach the research methods component of the first year psychology course (PS1002) and while interested in pedagogical best practices generally, I am especially keen on exploring novel ways of teaching research methods and statistics to psychologists.

I am broadly interested in social behaviour and cognition from an evolutionary perspective. To better understand how animals learn from each other I explore imitation and other forms of social learning in children, adults, and nonhuman primates.

Selected publications

• Automatic imitation effects are influenced by experience of synchronous action in children

  O'Sullivan, E. P., Caldwell, C. A. & Bijvoet-van den Berg, S., Jul 2018, In : Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 171, p. 113-130

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Action-matching biases in monkeys (Sapajus spp.) in a stimulus-response compatibility task: evaluating experience-dependent malleability

  O'Sullivan, E. P., Caldwell, C. & Claidière, N., Nov 2017, In : Journal of Comparative Psychology. 131, 4, p. 337-347

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Using photographs to study animal social cognition and behaviour: do capuchins? responses to photos reflect reality?

  O'Sullivan, E. P., Morton, F. B., Brosnan, S., Prétôt, L., Buchanan-Smith, H., Stocker, M., D'Mello, D. & Wilson, V., Mar 2016, In : Behavioural Processes. 124, p. 38-46

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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