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C. Peter Herman

C. Peter Herman

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Psychology

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85
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30440
World Ranking
1181
National Ranking
58

Overview

C. Peter Herman is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has a research focus primarily situated at the intersection of medicine and psychology. Their scholarly contributions are spread across several fields, including clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, applied psychology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and pharmacy.

The scientist's research topics encompass eating disorders and behaviors, obesity, physical activity, diet, behavioral health and interventions, obesity and health practices, aortic aneurysm repair treatments, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Herman has published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Appetite
  • Journal of Vascular Surgery
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Eating Behaviors
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Herman include:

  • What is restrained eating and how do we identify it?, 2020, Appetite
  • Overeating in Restrained and Unrestrained Eaters, 2020, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Modeling of food intake among restrained and unrestrained eaters, 2020, Appetite
  • What does it mean to overeat?, 2020, Eating Behaviors
  • Influence of social-normative information on the modeling of food-related decisions, 2022, Appetite

Frequent coauthors in Herman's work include:

  • Janet Polivy
  • Lenny R. Vartanian
  • Young Kim
  • Anahita Dua
  • Jennifer S. Mills

The body of research conducted by C. Peter Herman touches on a variety of themes central to understanding and intervening in eating behaviors, diet-related health outcomes, and clinical practices associated with obesity and behavioral health. Their work contributes to a multidisciplinary perspective bridging health sciences and psychological frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Dieting and binging: A causal analysis.

    J Polivy;C P Herman

  • Causes of Eating Disorders

    Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman

  • Restrained and unrestrained eating

    C Peter Herman;Deborah Mack

  • Anxiety, restraint, and eating behavior.

    C. Peter Herman;Janet Polivy

  • Effects of the presence of others on food intake: a normative interpretation

    C. Peter Herman;Deborah A. Roth;Janet Polivy

  • Diagnosis and treatment of normal eating.

    Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman

  • Etiology of binge eating: Psychological mechanisms.

    Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman

  • The effect of pre-exposure to food cues on the eating behavior of restrained and unrestrained eaters

    Ingri D.C. Fedoroff;Janet Polivy;C.Peter Herman

  • Effects of physical threat and ego threat on eating behavior.

    T F Heatherton;C P Herman;J Polivy

  • The (mis)measurement of restraint: an analysis of conceptual and psychometric issues

    T F Heatherton;C P Herman;J Polivy;G A King

  • If at first you don't succeed. False hopes of self-change.

    Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman

  • The specificity of restrained versus unrestrained eaters' responses to food cues: general desire to eat, or craving for the cued food?

    Ingrid Fedoroff;Janet Polivy;C Peter Herman

  • Consumption stereotypes and impression management: How you are what you eat

    Lenny R. Vartanian;C. Peter Herman;Janet Polivy

  • Distress and eating: why do dieters overeat?

    Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman

  • Normative influences on food intake.

    C Peter Herman;Janet Polivy

  • Perceived healthiness of food. If it's healthy, you can eat more!

    Véronique Provencher;Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman

  • Effects of Exposure to Thin Media Images: Evidence of Self-Enhancement among Restrained Eaters

    Jennifer S. Mills;Janet Polivy;C. Peter Herman;Marika Tiggemann

  • Eating style, overeating, and overweight in a representative Dutch sample. Does external eating play a role?

    Tatjana van Strien;C. Peter Herman;Marieke W. Verheijden

  • The effect of deprivation on food cravings and eating behavior in restrained and unrestrained eaters.

    Janet Polivy;Julie Coleman;C. Peter Herman

  • A boundary model for the regulation of eating.

    C Peter Herman;Janet Polivy

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Polivy
Janet Polivy University of Toronto
Lenny R. Vartanian
Lenny R. Vartanian University of New South Wales
Patricia Pliner
Patricia Pliner University of Toronto
Tatjana van Strien
Tatjana van Strien Radboud University
Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
Junilla K. Larsen
Junilla K. Larsen Radboud University
Todd F. Heatherton
Todd F. Heatherton Dartmouth College
Marika Tiggemann
Marika Tiggemann Flinders University
Suzanne Higgs
Suzanne Higgs University of Birmingham
Eva Kemps
Eva Kemps Flinders University

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