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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Niva Piran is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has a research focus primarily in the field of Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research explores topics such as Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Obesity and Health Practices, Diversity and Impact of Dance, Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Humor Studies and Applications, and Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Niva Piran include Alyssa Counsell, Tanya Luanne Teall, Kristina Holmqvist Gattario, Ann Frisén, and Elizabeth H. Evans.

Their publications appear predominantly in the journal Body Image, which accounts for the largest number of their works. They have also published in PsycTESTS Dataset, Eating Disorders, Current Oncology, and the Journal of Health Psychology.

Examples of their recent papers are:

  • The experience of embodiment scale: Development and psychometric evaluation (2020) in Body Image
  • Yoga and the experience of embodiment: a discussion of possible links (2020) in Eating Disorders
  • Embodiment: Cultural and gender differences and associations with life satisfaction (2020) in Body Image
  • "I'll never sacrifice my well-being again:" The journey from negative to positive body image among women who perceive their body to deviate from societal norms (2023) in Body Image
  • Disordered eating through the lens of positive psychology: The role of embodiment, self-esteem and identity coherence (2021) in Body Image

In 2014, Niva Piran was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • The role of body image in the prevention of eating disorders

    Michael P Levine;Niva Piran

  • Prevention of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: What next?

    Dianne Neumark-Sztainer;Michael P. Levine;Susan J. Paxton;Linda Smolak

  • Multiple types of harassment: Associations with emotional well-being and unhealthy behaviors in adolescents

    Michaela M. Bucchianeri;Marla E Eisenberg;Melanie M. Wall;Niva Piran

  • Embodied possibilities and disruptions: The emergence of the Experience of Embodiment construct from qualitative studies with girls and women

    Niva Piran

  • Affective disturbance in eating disorders.

    N Piran;S Kennedy;P E Garfinkel;M Owens

  • Personality disorders in anorexic patients

    Niva Piran;Paul Lerner;Paul E. Garfinkel;Sidney H. Kennedy

  • The Social Construction of Women and Disordered Eating Patterns.

    Niva Piran;Holly C. Cormier

  • New possibilities in the prevention of eating disorders: The introduction of positive body image measures.

    Niva Piran

  • Co-occurrence of eating disorders and alcohol use disorders in women: a meta analysis

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  • Eating Disorders: A Trial of Prevention in a High Risk School Setting

    Niva Piran

  • Preventing Eating Disorders : A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges

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  • Skin-Color Preferences and Body Satisfaction Among South Asian-Canadian and European-Canadian Female University Students

    Sarita Sahay;Niva Piran

  • A trial of isocarboxazid in the treatment of bulimia nervosa.

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Niva Piran;Jerry J. Warsh;Peter Prendergast

  • Associations between disordered eating behaviors and licit and illicit substance use and abuse in a university sample.

    Niva Piran;Shannon R. Robinson

  • A Feminist Perspective on Risk Factor Research and on the Prevention of Eating Disorders

    Niva Piran

  • The Developmental Theory of Embodiment: Discovering Paths in the Body Journeys of Girls and Women

    Niva Piran

  • The experience of embodiment scale: Development and psychometric evaluation.

    Niva Piran;Tanya Luanne Teall;Alyssa Counsell

  • Re-inhabiting the body from the inside out: Girls transform their school environment.

    Niva Piran

  • Two year follow-up of bulimia nervosa: The importance of abstinence as the criterion of outcome

    Sarah E. Maddocks;Allan S. Kaplan;D. Blake Woodside;Leslie Langdon

  • Patterns of associations between eating disordered behaviors and substance use in two non-clinical samples: a university and a community based sample.

    Niva Piran;Shannon R. Robinson

  • Eating disorders and substance abuse in Canadian men and women: a national study.

    Tahany Gadalla;Niva Piran

  • Prevention: Can Early Lessons Lead to a Delineation of an Alternative Model? A Critical Look at Prevention with Schoolchildren

    Niva Piran

  • Psychiatric comorbidity in women with disordered eating behavior: a national study.

    Tahany Gadalla;Niva Piran

  • Teachers: on "being" (rather than "doing") prevention.

    Niva Piran

Frequent Co-Authors

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer University of Minnesota
Ann Frisén
Ann Frisén University of Gothenburg
Oddgeir Friborg
Oddgeir Friborg University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Marla E. Eisenberg
Marla E. Eisenberg University of Minnesota
Jan H. Rosenvinge
Jan H. Rosenvinge University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Susan J. Paxton
Susan J. Paxton La Trobe University
Eleanor H. Wertheim
Eleanor H. Wertheim La Trobe University
David M. Garner
David M. Garner Michigan State University
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University
Amy Slater
Amy Slater University of the West of England

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