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149
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Eric Stice is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and medicine, with particular emphasis on clinical psychology and public health. Their research has addressed multiple interconnected topics, including eating disorders, obesity, diet, metabolism, and adolescent health.

Stice's work focuses significantly on eating disorders and behaviors, covering 116 publications in this area. Other major research themes include obesity, physical activity, and diet; obesity and health practices; diet and metabolism studies; body image and dysmorphia; obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders; and the impact of technology on adolescents.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Stice include Heather Shaw, Paul Rohde, Sonja Yokum, Jeff M. Gau, and Maciej S. Buchowski. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers active in psychology and health-related disciplines.

Stice's research has been published in a variety of academic journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Nutrients
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science

Some of their recent papers include:

  • A meta-analytic review of trials that tested whether eating disorder prevention programs prevent eating disorder onset, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Clinician-led, peer-led, and internet-delivered dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Effectiveness of these delivery modalities through 4-year follow-up, 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Other referenced recent influential papers within their research ecosystem, authored by others, focus on energy expenditure, doubly labeled water studies, and energy compensation related to adiposity:

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course, 2021, Science
  • A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies, 2021, Cell Reports Medicine
  • Energy compensation and adiposity in humans, 2021, Current Biology

Their research fields of study reflect an emphasis on psychology with 98 publications and medicine with 67. Clinical psychology is the dominant subfield, comprising 77 publications, followed by public health and environmental health, physiology, general health professions, and pharmacy.

Best Publications

  • RISK AND MAINTENANCE FACTORS FOR EATING PATHOLOGY: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW

    Eric Stice

  • How Do Risk Factors Work Together? Mediators, Moderators, and Independent, Overlapping, and Proxy Risk Factors

    Helena Chmura Kraemer;Eric Stice;Alan Kazdin;David Offord

  • Role of body dissatisfaction in the onset and maintenance of eating pathology: a synthesis of research findings.

    Eric Stice;Heather E Shaw

  • Thin-Ideal Internalization: Mounting Evidence for a New Risk Factor for Body-Image Disturbance and Eating Pathology:

    J. Kevin Thompson;Eric Stice

  • A prospective test of the dual-pathway model of bulimic pathology: mediating effects of dieting and negative affect.

    Eric Stice

  • Relation of media exposure to eating disorder symptomatology: An examination of mediating mechanisms.

    Eric Stice;Erika Schupak-Neuberg;Heather E. Shaw;Richard I. Stein

  • Adverse effects of the media portrayed thin-ideal on women and linkages to bulimic symptomatology.

    Eric Stice;Heather E. Shaw

  • Risk factors for body dissatisfaction in adolescent girls: a longitudinal investigation.

    Eric Stice;Kathryn Whitenton

  • Review of the evidence for a sociocultural model of bulimia nervosa and an exploration of the mechanisms of action.

    Eric Stice

  • Risk factors for binge eating onset in adolescent girls: a 2-year prospective investigation.

    Eric Stice;Katherine Presnell;Diane Spangler

  • Prevalence, incidence, impairment, and course of the proposed DSM-5 eating disorder diagnoses in an 8-year prospective community study of young women

    Eric Stice;C. Nathan Marti;Paul Rohde

  • Prospective relations between social support and depression: differential direction of effects for parent and peer support?

    Eric Stice;Jennifer Ragan;Patrick Randall

  • Body-image and eating disturbances prospectively predict increases in depressive symptoms in adolescent girls: a growth curve analysis.

    Eric Stice;Sarah Kate Bearman

  • Development and validation of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale: A brief self-report measure of anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder.

    Eric Stice;Christy F. Telch;Shireen L. Rizvi

  • Relation of reward from food intake and anticipated food intake to obesity: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Eric Stice;Sonja Spoor;Cara Bohon;Marga G. Veldhuizen

  • Reciprocal relations between rumination and bulimic, substance abuse, and depressive symptoms in female adolescents.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Eric Stice;Emily Wade;Cara Bohon

  • The Skinny on Body Dissatisfaction: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Girls and Boys

    Sarah Kate Bearman;Sarah Kate Bearman;Katherine Presnell;Erin Martinez;Eric Stice

  • Body-image and eating disturbances predict onset of depression among female adolescents: a longitudinal study

    Eric Stice;Chris Hayward;Rebecca P. Cameron;Joel D. Killen

  • Relation Between Obesity and Blunted Striatal Response to Food Is Moderated by TaqIA A1 Allele

    E. Stice;S. Spoor;C. Bohon;C. Bohon;D. M. Small

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of Obesity Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents: The Skinny on Interventions that Work

    Eric Stice;Heather Shaw;C. Nathan Marti

  • Predicting onset and cessation of bulimic behaviors during adolescence: A longitudinal grouping analysis

    Eric Stice;W. Stewart Agras

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather Shaw
Heather Shaw Stanford University
Paul Rohde
Paul Rohde Oregon Research Institute
Michael R. Lowe
Michael R. Lowe Drexel University
Meghan L. Butryn
Meghan L. Butryn Drexel University
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
W. Stewart Agras
W. Stewart Agras Stanford University
Carolyn Black Becker
Carolyn Black Becker Trinity University
John R. Seeley
John R. Seeley University of Oregon
Manuel Barrera
Manuel Barrera Arizona State University
Leonard H. Epstein
Leonard H. Epstein University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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