The APPEAR team collaborates on a variety of ongoing projects regarding body image and eating concerns.
Individual prevention
- Evaluation of an online prevention program among college students
- Evaluation of an online program to increase media literacy related to social media
Macro-level prevention
- Examining how certain advertising can be less deleterious to body image
- Examining how regulation of model employment can have a positive impact on their health
- Examining how food environment is related to eating disorder risk
Risk & protective factors
- Examining various possible influences on body image
- Increasing emphasis on muscularity
- Racial/ethnic identities
- Gender identity
- Sexual orientation
- Intersectional identities
- Motherhood
- Lifespan (mid-life, older life)
- Examining how network analyses can contribute to our understanding of the way that thoughts and behaviors come together in eating disorders and body image concerns.
- The internet as a new form of media & sociocultural pressure
- Healthism and Love Your Body discourses
- “Healthy weight” pressure
- Controllability beliefs through diet and exercise
- Use of personal technologies
- Bodily and psychic regulation
- Positive body image
- Healthy eating
- Mindfulness and acceptance
Cognitive characteristics of body image and eating concerns through computer tasks
- Decision making and learning
- Attention bias and re-attentive processing
- Memory
- Rumination
Comorbidity between eating disorder symptoms and medical issues
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Food allergies