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Suzanne Higgs is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine and Psychology, with 54 and 53 publications respectively. Within these broad fields, key subfields include Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Applied Psychology, and Physiology.

The main topics of Suzanne Higgs' research emphasize Eating Disorders and Behaviors, with 54 publications addressing this area. Other prominent topics covered are Behavioral Health and Interventions, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity and Health Practices, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Some of the frequent co-authors collaborating with Higgs include Colin T. Dourish, Jason Thomas, Armelle Garcia, Olga Davidenko, and Elizabeth M. Schneider. These collaborations span multiple publications, with notable counts such as 14 joint papers with Colin T. Dourish and 12 with Jason Thomas.

Higgs publishes extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include Appetite, Physiology & Behavior, Frontiers in Psychology, European Neuropsychopharmacology, and Body Image.

Recent notable papers authored by Suzanne Higgs include:

  • Interoception and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between interoception and BMI, 2021, International Journal of Obesity
  • Lisdexamfetamine and binge-eating disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the preclinical and clinical data with a focus on mechanism of drug action in treating the disorder, 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • A dynamic social norm messaging intervention to reduce meat consumption: A randomized cross-over trial in retail store restaurants, 2021, Appetite
  • A bifactor analysis of the Weight Bias Internalization Scale: What are we really measuring?, 2020, Body Image

Best Publications

  • Social norms and their influence on eating behaviours

    Suzanne Higgs

  • Social influences on eating

    Suzanne Higgs;Jason Michael Thomas

  • Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat

    Roger A.H. Adan;Roger A.H. Adan;Eline M. van der Beek;Jan K. Buitelaar;John F. Cryan

  • Does low-energy sweetener consumption affect energy intake and body weight? A systematic review, including meta-analyses, of the evidence from human and animal studies

    P. J. Rogers;Pleunie Hogenkamp;C. de Graaf;S. Higgs

  • What everyone else is eating:a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of informational eating norms on eating behavior

    Eric Robinson;Jason Michael Thomas;Paul Aveyard;Suzanne Higgs

  • Eating attentively: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of food intake memory and awareness on eating

    Eric Robinson;Paul Aveyard;Amanda Daley;Kate Jolly

  • Television watching during lunch increases afternoon snack intake of young women

    Suzanne Higgs;Morgan Woodward

  • Prompting Healthier Eating: Testing the Use of Health and Social Norm Based Messages

    Eric Robinson;Alexander Fleming;Suzanne Higgs

  • Cannabinoid influences on palatability: microstructural analysis of sucrose drinking after Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, anandamide, 2-arachidonoyl glycerol and SR141716

    Suzanne Higgs;Claire M. Williams;Tim C. Kirkham

  • Memory for recent eating and its influence on subsequent food intake.

    Suzanne Higgs

  • Postprandial Administration of Intranasal Insulin Intensifies Satiety and Reduces Intake of Palatable Snacks in Women

    Manfred Hallschmid;Suzanne Higgs;Matthias Thienel;Volker Ott

  • Cognitive processing of food rewards.

    Suzanne Higgs

  • Cognitive influences on food intake: The effects of manipulating memory for recent eating

    Suzanne Higgs

  • Focusing on food during lunch enhances lunch memory and decreases later snack intake.

    Suzanne Higgs;Jessica E. Donohoe

  • Susceptibility to weight gain. Eating behaviour traits and physical activity as predictors of weight gain during the first year of university.

    Graham Finlayson;Joanne Cecil;Suzanne Higgs;Andrew Hill

  • Social influences on eating: implications for nutritional interventions.

    Eric Robinson;Jackie Blissett;Suzanne Higgs

  • The bogus taste test: Validity as a measure of laboratory food intake.

    Eric Robinson;Ashleigh Haynes;Charlotte A. Hardman;Eva Kemps

  • Social matching of food intake and the need for social acceptance

    Eric Robinson;Talia Tobias;Lucy Shaw;Elyse Freeman

  • Disordered eating behaviour is associated with blunted cortisol and cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress

    Annie T. Ginty;Anna C. Phillips;Suzanne Higgs;Jennifer L.J. Heaney

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and disordered eating behaviour: A systematic review and a framework for future research.

    Panagiota Kaisari;Colin T Dourish;Suzanne Higgs

  • Sensory-Specific Satiety Is Intact in Amnesics Who Eat Multiple Meals

    Suzanne Higgs;Amy C. Williamson;Pia Rotshtein;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Recall of recent lunch and its effect on subsequent snack intake.

    Suzanne Higgs;Amy C. Williamson;Angela S. Attwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Robinson
Eric Robinson University of Liverpool
Pia Rotshtein
Pia Rotshtein University of Birmingham
Arie Nouwen
Arie Nouwen Middlesex University
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom University of Bristol
Jacqueline Blissett
Jacqueline Blissett Aston University
David A. Booth
David A. Booth University of Sussex
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Peter C. Hansen
Peter C. Hansen University of Birmingham
C. Peter Herman
C. Peter Herman University of Toronto
Susan A. Jebb
Susan A. Jebb University of Oxford

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