What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Law
- Internal medicine
Kerry S. O'Brien spends much of his time researching Clinical psychology, Body mass index, Obesity, Prejudice and Social psychology.
His Clinical psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Psychological intervention, Self-concept, Overweight and Meta-analysis.
His work carried out in the field of Body mass index brings together such families of science as Psychosocial and Developmental psychology.
While working in this field, he studies both Developmental psychology and Injury prevention.
His Obesity study combines topics in areas such as Stigma, Multinational corporation, Attribution and Cognitive bias.
His work deals with themes such as Systematic review and Athletes, which intersect with Social psychology.
His most cited work include:
- Anti-Fat Prejudice Reduction: A Review of Published Studies (173 citations)
- Implicit anti-fat bias in physical educators: physical attributes, ideology and socialization. (167 citations)
- Reducing Anti-Fat Prejudice in Preservice Health Students: A Randomized Trial (157 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Kerry S. O'Brien mostly deals with Social psychology, Suicide prevention, Injury prevention, Developmental psychology and Human factors and ergonomics.
Combining a variety of fields, including Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, Alcohol industry, Environmental health and Family medicine, are what the author presents in his essays.
His study in the field of Alcohol advertising is also linked to topics like Attendance.
His Developmental psychology research includes themes of Eating disorders and Obesity.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Attribution, Gerontology, Ideology, Clinical psychology and Stigma in addition to Obesity.
His Prejudice research incorporates elements of Body mass index, Overweight, Context and Human physical appearance.
He most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (35.34%)
- Suicide prevention (33.62%)
- Injury prevention (27.59%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Addiction (6.03%)
- Advertising (3.45%)
- Clinical psychology (18.97%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Kerry S. O'Brien mainly investigates Addiction, Advertising, Clinical psychology, Stigma and Social psychology.
His Addiction research integrates issues from Psychotherapist, Context, Treatment options and Drug Use Disorders.
Kerry S. O'Brien focuses mostly in the field of Advertising, narrowing it down to matters related to Empirical research and, in some cases, Behavioural sciences, Association, Quality and Government.
His studies in Clinical psychology integrate themes in fields like Longitudinal study and Psychological distress.
His Stigma study incorporates themes from Cross-sectional study, Statistics & numerical data, Overweight, Anxiety and Mental health.
Kerry S. O'Brien studies Affective response which is a part of Social psychology.
Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Does the Awareness of Mortality Shape People's Openness to Violence and Conflict? An Examination of Terror Management Theory (7 citations)
- Psychological distress and internet-related behaviors between schoolchildren with and without overweight during the COVID-19 outbreak. (5 citations)
- Are You What You Read? Predicting Implicit Attitudes to Immigration Based on Linguistic Distributional Cues From Newspaper Readership; A Pre-registered Study (5 citations)
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