• Research that Changed Research: Bottomless Soup Bowl

    Elaine

    When do you stop eating? Most people would say that they’ll stop when they feel full. A classic experiment called the Bottomless Soup Bowl found that most people today are not very good at detecting when they feel full. Why is that? Well, people rely on different cues to help make certain judgments. With regards…

  • New Series: Research that Changed Research!

    Elaine

    While the DiSH Lab blog has been committed to bringing you the latest research in health psychology, we don’t want to ignore those awesome classic studies that set the stage for later findings. So we are introducing our new “Research that Changed Research” series where we will cover various studies that were the first of…

  • Introducing our Spotlight series! Andrew Ward

    Angela

    The DiSH Lab is so fortunate to collaborate with an awesome group of faculty and students from around the world and various disciplines. We want our readers to get to know them too through mini Q & A’s! To start it off, here is our spotlight on Dr. Andrew Ward: Dr. Ward is the chair…

  • Strong bones start earlier than you would think!

    Gloria

    Many people believe that kids should drink milk to help build strong bones, but in reality, mothers can help their children build strong bones even before they are born. A recent study shows that children born to mothers who get more vitamins from their diets during their first trimester of pregnancy continue to develop strong…

  • Stress and poor health behaviors don’t always go hand in hand…

    Allison

    We often assume that stress triggers poor health decisions and behavior… Snacking on more junk food than usual. Overeating. Not going to the gym as much. But according to Wendy Wood from USC, we are just as likely to fall back on healthy, good habits under stress as we are to “self-sabotage.” In other words,…

  • Anti-Fat Bias is Even Prevalent Among Med Students

    Michelle

    A recent study at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has shown that apparently (and perhaps ironically), two medical students out of every five have an implicit anti-fat bias against people with obesity. In this study, at least 300 med school students in their third years, took a survey online, widely known as the Weight Implicit…

  • Stressful Job? It could increase your cardiovascular risk…

    Vivianne

    A statistical update from the American Heart Association (AHA) cites health behaviors such as smoking and tobacco use, physical inactivity, nutrition, and family history and genetics as risk factors for cardiovascular disease. But what about stress? Spanish researchers from the Sociedad de Prevención de Ibermutuamur recently looked into the effect of work-related stress on increased blood fat levels,…

  • For UCLA Students Interested in Social Psychology!

    Angela

    Throughout the Winter and Spring quarter, the DiSH Lab has had the awesome opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Andrew Ward, Chair of Swarthmore College Psychology Department, during his sabbatical at UCLA. Now undergrads can take advantage of his time here too as Dr. Ward is teaching Social Psychology (Psychology 135) for Summer Session A, June…

  • When fast food gets too close to home… literally

    Megan

    Prior research has found higher rates of obesity among African Americans as compared with other ethnic groups. To expand upon this, Lorraine Reitzel and her research team studied more than 1,400 African Americans in this new study examining the relationships between body mass index (BMI) and proximity and density of fast food restaurants. Even after controlling…

  • Does anyone like a “Fat Talker?”

    Elaine

    The answer: not really. So who is a “fat talker?” According to Alexandra Corning, the director of Notre Dame’s Body Image and Eating Disorder Lab, a “fat talker” is a girl or woman who engages in self-disparaging remarks about her body, regardless of whether or not she is overweight. Corning’s study found that peers rated women…

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