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Janet D. Latner is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Health Professions, with significant contributions to Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Social Psychology.

Their main topics of study focus extensively on Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Obesity and Health Practices, and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet. Additional areas of interest include the Impact of Technology on Adolescents, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education.

Janet D. Latner has authored multiple papers, including:

  • The Relationship Between Children's Problematic Internet-related Behaviors and Psychological Distress During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study (2021, Journal of Addiction Medicine)
  • Psychological distress and internet-related behaviors between schoolchildren with and without overweight during the COVID-19 outbreak (2021, International Journal of Obesity)
  • Problematic Use of Internet-Related Activities and Perceived Weight Stigma in Schoolchildren: A Longitudinal Study Across Different Epidemic Periods of COVID-19 in China (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • The Relationship between Weight Stigma, Physical Appearance Concerns, and Enjoyment and Tendency to Avoid Physical Activity and Sport (2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Associations between social media addiction, psychological distress, and food addiction among Taiwanese university students (2023, Journal of Eating Disorders)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Chung-Ying Lin (24 publications)
  • Kerry O'Brien (19 publications)
  • Xavier C. C. Fung (9 publications)
  • Nadia Bevan (8 publications)
  • Jung-Sheng Chen (8 publications)

Janet D. Latner's work has been published repeatedly in these venues:

  • Journal of Eating Disorders (5 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (4 publications)
  • Eating Behaviors (4 publications)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset (4 publications)
  • BMC Psychology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Stigma, Obesity, and the Health of the Nation's Children

    Rebecca M. Puhl;Janet D. Latner

  • Getting worse: the stigmatization of obese children.

    Janet D. Latner;Albert J. Stunkard

  • Understanding Self-directed Stigma : Development of the Weight Bias Internalization Scale

    Laura E. Durso;Janet D. Latner

  • Stigmatized Students: Age, Sex, and Ethnicity Effects in the Stigmatization of Obesity.

    Janet D. Latner;Albert J. Stunkard;G. Terence Wilson

  • The relationship between weight stigma and eating behavior is explained by weight bias internalization and psychological distress.

    Kerry Steven O'Brien;Janet Latner;Rebecca M Puhl;Lenny R Vartanian

  • Weighing obesity stigma: the relative strength of different forms of bias

    Janet Latner;Kerry O'Brien;L.E. Durso;L.A. Brinkman

  • A multinational examination of weight bias: Predictors of anti-fat attitudes across four countries

    Rebecca M Puhl;Janet Latner;Kerry Steven O'Brien;Jeorg Luedicke

  • Quality of life impairment associated with body dissatisfaction in a general population sample of women

    Jonathan Mond;Deborah Mitchison;Janet D Latner;Phillipa Hay;Phillipa Hay

  • The effects of a high-carbohydrate, high-protein or balanced lunch upon later food intake and hunger ratings.

    J. D. Latner;M. Schwartz

  • Reducing Anti-Fat Prejudice in Preservice Health Students: A Randomized Trial

    Kerry S. O'Brien;Rebecca M. Puhl;Janet D. Latner;Azeem S. Mir

  • Obesity discrimination: the role of physical appearance, personal ideology, and anti-fat prejudice

    Kerry Steven O'Brien;Kerry Steven O'Brien;Janet Latner;Daria Ebneter;Jackie Hunter

  • Weight bias among professionals treating eating disorders: attitudes about treatment and perceived patient outcomes.

    Rebecca M. Puhl;Janet D. Latner;Kelly M. King;Joerg Luedicke

  • Internalized weight bias in obese patients with binge eating disorder: Associations with eating disturbances and psychological functioning

    Laura E. Durso;Janet D. Latner;Marney A. White;Robin M. Masheb

  • The loss of control over eating scale: Development and psychometric evaluation

    Janet D. Latner;Jonathan M. Mond;Jonathan M. Mond;Mackenzie C. Kelly;Stephen N. Haynes

  • Disgust sensitivity, obesity stigma, and gender: contamination psychology predicts weight bias for women, not men.

    Debra L. Lieberman;Josh M. Tybur;Janet D. Latner

  • Perceived Discrimination Is Associated with Binge Eating in a Community Sample of Non-Overweight, Overweight, and Obese Adults

    Laura E. Durso;Janet D. Latner;Kentaro Hayashi

  • Gastric bypass in a low-income, inner-city population: eating disturbances and weight loss.

    Janet D. Latner;Scott Wetzler;Elliot R. Goodman;Juliet Glinski

  • Childhood obesity stigma: association with television, videogame, and magazine exposure.

    Janet D. Latner;Juliet K. Rosewall;Murray B. Simmonds

  • Weight and health-related quality of life: The moderating role of weight discrimination and internalized weight bias

    Janet D Latner;John P Barile;Laura E Durso;Kerry S O'Brien

  • Loss of control over eating reflects eating disturbances and general psychopathology

    Janet D. Latner;Thomas Hildebrandt;Juliet K. Rosewall;Amy M. Chisholm

  • The diagnostic validity of the criteria for binge eating disorder

    Janet D. Latner;Courtney Clyne

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry S. O'Brien
Kerry S. O'Brien Monash University
Jonathan Mond
Jonathan Mond University of Tasmania
Chung Ying Lin
Chung Ying Lin National Cheng Kung University
David H. Gleaves
David H. Gleaves University of South Australia
Amir H. Pakpour
Amir H. Pakpour Jönköping University
G. Terence Wilson
G. Terence Wilson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David C. Cicero
David C. Cicero University of North Texas
Deborah Mitchison
Deborah Mitchison University of Technology Sydney
Stephen Touyz
Stephen Touyz University of Sydney
Tom Hildebrandt
Tom Hildebrandt Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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