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Katy Tapper is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with emphasis on clinical psychology, applied psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The main topics of study in Tapper's work include mindfulness and compassion interventions, behavioral health and interventions, eating disorders and behaviors, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, consumer attitudes and food labeling, obesity, physical activity, diet, as well as opinion dynamics and social influence.

Katy Tapper has contributed to several recent publications. These include:

  • Mindful eating: what we know so far, 2022, Nutrition Bulletin
  • Acceptability and Feasibility of a Mindfulness Intervention Delivered via Videoconferencing for People With Parkinson's, 2021, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Information overload for (bounded) rational agents, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Is the effect of menu energy labelling on consumer behaviour equitable? A pooled analysis of twelve randomized control experiments, 2023, Appetite
  • Socioeconomic position and the effect of energy labelling on consumer behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Tapper frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Joanna Szypula, Angeliki Bogosian, Stephanie Farrar, Eric Robinson, and Lucy Jones.

Their work is often published in journals such as Appetite, Nutrition Bulletin, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, with Appetite being the most frequent publication venue.

In addition to journal articles, Katy Tapper has contributed a book titled The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation, published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women

    Katy Tapper;Christine Shaw;Joanne Ilsley;Andrew J. Hill

  • Effects of a peer modelling and rewards-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children.

    C F Lowe;P J Horne;K Tapper;M Bowdery

  • Increasing children's fruit and vegetable consumption: a peer-modelling and rewards-based intervention

    Pauline J Horne;K Tapper;C F Lowe;C A Hardman

  • Sex differences in levels of physical, verbal, and indirect aggression amongst primary school children and their associations with beliefs about aggression

    Katy Tapper;Michael J. Boulton

  • Reasons for eating 'unhealthy' snacks in overweight and obese males and females

    L. Cleobury;K. Tapper

  • Cognitive biases to healthy and unhealthy food words predict change in BMI.

    Raff Calitri;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Katy Tapper;Jeffrey M. Brunstrom

  • Victim and peer group responses to different forms of aggression among primary school children

    Katy Tapper;Michael J. Boulton

  • Mindfulness and craving: effects and mechanisms.

    Katy Tapper

  • Feast Your Eyes: Hunger and Trait Reward Drive Predict Attentional Bias for Food Cues

    Katy Tapper;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Andrew David Lawrence

  • Can mindfulness influence weight management related eating behaviors? If so, how?

    Katy Tapper

  • Resisting chocolate temptation using a brief mindfulness strategy

    Kim T. Jenkins;Katy Tapper

  • Free healthy breakfasts in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a policy intervention in Wales, UK

    Simon Murphy;Graham Moore;Katy Tapper;Rebecca Jayne Lynch

  • Estimating everyday portion size using a 'method of constant stimuli': in a student sample, portion size is predicted by gender, dietary behaviour, and hunger, but not BMI.

    Jeffrey M. Brunstrom;Peter J. Rogers;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Raff Calitri

  • Social Representations of Physical, Verbal, and Indirect Aggression in Children: Sex and Age Differences

    Katy Tapper;Michael Boulton

  • Feeding strategies used by mothers of 3-5-year-old children

    Sue N. Moore;Katy Tapper;Simon Murphy

  • Associations between deprivation, attitudes towards eating breakfast and breakfast eating behaviours in 9–11-year-olds

    Graham Moore;Katy Tapper;Simon Murphy;Rebecca Jayne Lynch

  • A feasibility randomised controlled trial of a motivational interviewing-based intervention for weight loss maintenance in adults

    Sharon A Simpson;Rachel McNamara;Christine Shaw;Mark Kelson

  • Restraint, disinhibition and food-related processing bias.

    Katy Tapper;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Javad S. Fadardi;Javad S. Fadardi;Eleni Ziori

  • Validation of a self-completion measure of breakfast foods, snacks and fruits and vegetables consumed by 9- to 11-year-old schoolchildren

    Graham Moore;Katy Tapper;Simon Murphy;Rachel Clark

  • Mindful eating: what we know so far

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  • Sensitivity to reward and punishment: Associations with diet, alcohol consumption, and smoking

    Katy Tapper;Louise Baker;Gabriela Jiga-Boy;Geoffrey Haddock

  • ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION Increasing children's fruit and vegetable consumption: a peer-modelling and rewards-based intervention

    PJ Horne;K Tapper;CF Lowe;CA Hardman

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon Anne Simpson
Sharon Anne Simpson University of Glasgow
Emmanuel M. Pothos
Emmanuel M. Pothos City, University of London
Geoffrey Haddock
Geoffrey Haddock Cardiff University
Gregory R. Maio
Gregory R. Maio University of Bath
Michael J. Boulton
Michael J. Boulton University of Chester
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom University of Bristol
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Frank W. Bond
Frank W. Bond Goldsmiths University of London
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London
David N. Rapp
David N. Rapp Northwestern University

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