Professional Training & Experience

2005 - Faculty Member, Imaging Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

2004 - Research Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

2003 - Senior Scientist, Oregon Research Institute

2002 - Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

2001 - Visiting Assistant Professor (Summer), Department of Psychology, University of Washington

2000 - Visiting Fellow (Summer), Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

1999 - Visiting Assistant Professor (Summer), Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University

1998-02 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

1996-98 - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University

1995-96 - Psychology Intern, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego

1992-93 - Psychology Extern, Arizona State Hospital

1991-92 - Instructor, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University

1990-95 - Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University

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Current ORI Projects

Eating Disorders Prevention: An Effectiveness Trial for At-Risk College Students (College Effectiveness)
This project is the first effectiveness trial to test whether an eating disorder prevention program with strong empirical support produces effects under ecologically valid conditions among high-risk college students.
Principal Investigator: Eric Stice
Co-Investigators: Paul Rohde, and Heather Shaw
Project Period: 4/1/10 - 2/28/15
National Institute of Mental Health

Relation of Consummatory and Anticipatory Food Reward to Obesity (Project Milkshake)
This study addresses a vital public health problem because obesity results in marked morbidity and mortality and an improved understanding of the neural substrates that contribute to obesity should inform the development of more effective prevention and treatment interventions.
Principal Investigator: Eric Stice
Co-Investigators: Dana Small, Leonard Epstein, and Sonja Yokum
Project Period: 8/1/09 - 7/31/14
National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases

Effectiveness Trial of an Adolescent Depression Prevention Program (Oregon Blues)
This project is the first large-scale trial of two empirically supported depression prevention programs for high-risk adolescents in real-world settings.
Principal Investigator: Paul Rohde
Co-Investigators: Eric Stice and Heather Shaw
Project Period: 1/1/09 - 11/30/13
National Institute of Mental Health

Targeted Obesity Prevention Program for Adolescent Females (Healthy Weight)

Investigators are conducting a randomized trial of an enhanced version of the Healthy Weight program, an obesity prevention program that, in preliminary studies, was shown to reduce the rate of obesity onset, eating disorder symptoms, and negative affect among female adolescents.

Principal Investigator: Eric Stice

Co-Investigators: Paul Rohde, Heather Shaw

Project Period: 2/10/07 - 1/31/12

National Institute of Mental Health

Prevention of Obesity at Universities: A Randomized Trial (Penn Prevention)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an obesity prevention program that represents a synthesis of two programs that have been found to be effective in preliminary trials, targeting freshman females at two large universities.

Principal Investigator: Eric Stice

Project Period: 6/20/06 - 4/30/11

Subcontract with Drexel University to National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

Eating Disorder Prevention Program Effectiveness Trial (Body Project)

Investigators are conducting an effectiveness trial of a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program that has been found to produce intervention effects on bulimic pathology, risk factors for bulimic pathology, and risk for future onset of obesity.

Principal Investigator: Eric Stice

Co-Investigator: Paul Rohde

Project Period: 3/1/05 - 2/28/10

National Institute of Mental Health

 

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Selected Grants

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institutes of Health. Effectiveness Trial of an Adolescent Depression Prevention Program. Co-Investigator. Total costs = $2,943,121. 9/07-8/12.

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institutes of Health. Targeted Obesity Prevention Program for Adolescent Females. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $3,389,441. 2/07-1/12.

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institutes of Health. An Evaluation of an Obesity Prevention Program for College Women. Co-Investigator. Total costs = $2,876,659. 5/06-4/11.

Roadmap Supplement for Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Biological Sciences. National Institutes of Health. Neural Substrates of Dieting: A Potent Risk Factor for Bulimia Nervosa. Principal Investigator. Total Costs = $183,330. 11/05–10/06.

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institutes of Health. Eating Disorder Prevention Program Effectiveness Trial. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $1,715,625. 3/05-4/10.

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institutes of Health. Depression Prevention Program for High-Risk Adolescents. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $1,548,338. 6/04-5/09.

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institute of Health. Risk and Maintenance Factors for Bulimic Pathology. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $1,676,734. 8/02-7/07.

Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institute of Mental Health. Test of a Dissonance Eating Disorder Prevention Program. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $1,312,500. 2/01-1/07.

Research Scientist Career Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Etiology of Bulimic Pathology: Multimethod Investigation. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $650,408. 8/98-8/03.

Selected Presentations & Publications

Stice, E., Marti, N., Shaw, H., & Jaconis, M. (in press). An 8-year longitudinal study of the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders from a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Stice, E., Rohde, P, Gau, J., & Shaw, H. (in press). An effectiveness trial of a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program for high-risk adolescent girls. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Stice, E., Shaw, H., Bohon, C., Marti, C. N., & Rohde, P. (in press). A meta-analytic review of depression prevention programs for children and adolescents: Factors that predict magnitude of intervention effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Stice, E., Spoor, S., Ng, J., & Zald, D. (in press). Relation of obesity to consummatory and anticipatory food reward. Physiology and Behavior.

Full Text Bohon, C., Stice, E., & Spoor, S. (2009). Female emotional eaters show abnormalities in consummatory and anticipatory food reward: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 42, 210-221.

Pacheco, J., Beevers, C., Benavides, C., McGeary, J., Stice, E., & Schnyer, D. M. (2009). Frontal-limbic matter pathway associations with the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 6229-6233.

Full Text Seeley, J., Stice, E., & Rohde, P. (2009). Screening for depression prevention: Identifying adolescent girls at high risk for future depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 161-170.

Presnell, K., Stice, E., & Tristan, J. (2008). An experimental investigation of the effects of naturalistic dieting on bulimic symptoms: Moderating effects of depressive symptoms. Appetite, 50, 91-101.

Full Text Stice, E., Bohon, C., & Marti, C. N., Fischer, K. (2008). Subtyping women with bulimia nervosa along dietary and negative affect dimensions: Further evidence of reliability and validity.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 1022-1033.

Full Text Stice, E., Davis, K., Miller, N., & Marti, C. N. (2008). Fasting increases risk for onset of binge eating and bulimic pathology: A 5-year prospective study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 941-946.

Full Text Stice, E., Shaw, H., Black Becker, C., & Rohde, P. (2008). Dissonance-based Interventions for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: Using Persuasion Principles to Promote Health. Prevention Science, 9, 114–128.

Full Text Stice, E., Marti, N., Spoor, S., Presnell, K., & Shaw, H. (2008). Dissonance and healthy weight eating disorder prevention programs: Long-term effects from a randomized efficacy trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 329-340.

Full Text Stice, E., Rohde, P., Seeley, J., & Gau, J. (2008). Brief cognitive-behavioral depression prevention program for high-risk adolescents outperforms two alternative interventions: A randomized efficacy trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 595-606.

Full Text Stice, E., Spoor, S., Bohon, C., & Small, D. (2008). Relation between obesity and blunted striatal response to food is moderated by the TaqIA1 gene. Science, 322, 449-452.

Full Text Stice, E., Spoor, S., Bohon, C., Veldhuizen, M., & Small, D. (2008). Relation of reward from food intake and anticipated intake to obesity: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 924-935.

Stice, E., & Tristan, J. (2008). An experimental investigation of the effects of naturalistic dieting on bulimic symptoms: Moderating effects of depressive symptoms. Appetite.

Beevers, C. G., Rohde, P., Stice, E., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2007). The impact of major depression on female adolescents: A further test of the scar hypothesis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 888-900.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S.,  Stice, E.,  Wade, E., & Bohon, C. (2007). Reciprocal relations between rumination and bulimic, substance abuse, and depressive symptoms in adolescent females.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 198-207.

Stice, E., Cooper, J. A., Schoeller, D. A., Tappe, K., & Lowe, M. R. (2007). Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of moderate- to long-term dietary restriction? Objective biological and behavioral data suggest not.  Psychological Assessment, 19, 449-458.Presnell, K.,

Full Text Stice, E., Presnell, K., Gau, J., & Shaw, H. (2007). Testing mediators of intervention effects in randomized controlled trials: An evaluation of two eating disorder prevention programs. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 20-32.

Stice, E., Shaw, H., & Marti, C. N. (2007). A meta-analytic review of eating disorder prevention programs: Encouraging Findings. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 233-257.

Full Text Burton, E., & Stice, E. (2006). Evaluation of a healthy-weight treatment program for bulimia nervosa: A preliminary randomized trial. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 44, 1727-1738.

Measelle, J. R., Stice, E., & Hogansen, J. M. (2006). Developmental trajectories of co-occurring depressive, antisocial, eating, and substance use problems in adolescent females. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 524-538.

Rohde, P., Seeley, J. Kaufman, N., Clarke, G., & Stice, E. (2006) Predicting time to depression remission among adolescents treated in two group interventions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 80-88.

Full Text Stice, E., Burton, E., Bearman, S. K., & Rohde, P. (2006). Randomized trial of a brief depression prevention program: An elusive search for a psychosocial placebo control condition. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 863-876.

Stice, E., Martinez, E., Presnell, K., & Groesz, L. (2006). Relation of successful dietary restriction to bulimic pathology: A prospective community-based study. Health Psychology, 25, 274-281.

Stice, E., Shaw, H., Burton, E., & Wade, E. (2006). Dissonance and healthy weight eating disorder prevention programs: A randomized efficacy trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 263-275.

Stice, E., Shaw, H., & Marti, C. N. (2006). A meta-analytic review of obesity prevention programs for children and adolescents: The skinny on interventions that work. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 667-691.

Kaufman, N. K., Rohde, P., Seeley, J. R., Clarke, G. N., & Stice, E. (2005). Mediators of cognitive behavioral treatment for adolescents with comorbid major depression and conduct disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 38-46.

Stice, E., Presnell, K., Groesz, L., & Shaw, H. (2005). Effects of a weight maintenance diet on bulimic pathology: An experimental test of the dietary restraint theory. Health Psychology, 24, 402-412.

Stice, E., Presnell, K., Shaw, H., & Rohde, P. (2005). Psychological and behavioral risk factors for onset of obesity in adolescent girls: A prospective study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 195-202.

Burton, E.M., Stice, E., & Seeley, J.R. (2004). A prospective test of the stress-buffering model of depression in adolescent girls: No support once again. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 689-697.

Fairburn, C.F., Wilson, G.T., Agras, W.S., Welch, T., & Stice, E. (2004). Early change in treatment predicts outcome in bulimia nervosa. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 2322-2324.

Stice, E., Burton, E. M., & Shaw, H. (2004). Prospective relations between bulimic pathology, depression, and substance abuse: Unpacking comorbidity in adolescent girls. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 62-71.

Stice, E., Fisher, M., & Lowe, M. R. (2004). Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of acute dietary restriction? Unobtrusive observational data suggest not. Psychological Assessment, 16, 51-59.

Stice, E., Ragan, J., & Randall, P. (2004). Prospective relations between social support and depression: Differential direction of effects for parent and peer support? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 155-159.

Stice, E. & Shaw, H. (2004). Eating disorder prevention programs: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 206-227.

Bearman, S. K., Stice, E., & Chase, A. (2003). Effects of body dissatisfaction on depressive and bulimic symptoms: A longitudinal experiment. Behavior Therapy, 34, 277-293.

Fairburn, C. F., Stice, E., Cooper, Z., Doll, H. A., Norman, P. A., & O’Connor, M. E. (2003). Understanding persistence of bulimia nervosa: A five-year naturalistic study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 103-109.

Presnell, K., & Stice, E. (2003). An experimental test of the effect of weight-loss dieting on bulimic pathology: Tipping the scales in a different direction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 166-170.

Stice, E., & Fairburn, C.G. (2003). Dietary and dietary-depressive subtypes of bulimia nervosa show differential symptom presentation, social impairment, comorbidity, and course of illness. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 1090-1094.

Stice, E., & Shaw, H. (2003). Prospective relations of body image, eating, and affective disturbances to smoking onset in adolescent girls: How Virginia slims. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 129-135.

Stice, E. (2002). Risk and maintenance factors for eating pathology: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 825-848.

Stice, E., Presnell, K., & Spangler, D. (2002). Risk factors for binge eating onset: A prospective investigation. Health Psychology, 21, 131-138.

Stice, E., & Whitenton, K. (2002). Risk factors for body dissatisfaction in adolescent girls: A longitudinal investigation. Developmental Psychology, 38, 669-678.

Kraemer, H. C., Stice, E., Kazdin, A., & Kupfer, D. (2001). How do risk factors work? Mediators, moderators, independent, overlapping, and proxy risk factors. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 848-856.

Stice, E. (2001). A prospective test of the dual pathway model of bulimic pathology: Mediating effects of dieting and negative affect. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 124-135.

Stice, E., & Bearman, S. K. (2001). Body image and eating disturbances prospectively predict growth in depressive symptoms in adolescent girls: A growth curve analysis. Developmental Psychology, 37, 597-607.

Stice, E., Presnell, K., & Bearman, S. K. (2001). Relation of early menarche to depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, and comorbid psychopathology among adolescent girls. Developmental Psychology, 37, 608-619.

Stice, E., Hayward, C., Cameron, R., Killen, J. D., & Taylor, C. B. (2000). Body image and eating related factors predict onset of depression in female adolescents: A longitudinal study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 438-444.

Stice, E., Telch, C. F., & Rizvi, S. L. (2000). Development and validation of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale: A brief self-report measure for anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Psychological Assessment, 12, 123-131.

Stice, E., & Agras, W. S. (1999). Subtyping bulimics along dietary restraint and negative affect dimensions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67, 460-469.

Stice, E., Cameron, R., Killen, J. D., Hayward, C., & Taylor, C. B. (1999). Naturalistic weight reduction efforts prospectively predict growth in relative weight and onset of obesity among female adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67, 967-974.

Stice, E., Barrera, M., Jr., & Chassin, L. (1998). Prospective differential prediction of adolescent alcohol use and problem use: Examining mechanisms of effect. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 616-628.

Stice, E., Killen, J. D., Hayward, C. & Taylor, C. B. (1998). Age of onset for binge eating and purging during adolescence: A four-year survival analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 671-675.

Stice, E., Killen, J. D., Hayward, C. & Taylor, C. B. (1998). Support for the continuity hypothesis of bulimic pathology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 784-790.

BOOKS

Becker, C. B. & Stice, E. (2008). Sorority Body Image Program: Group Leader Guide. New York: Oxford University Press.

Becker, C. B. & Stice, E. (2008). Sorority Body Image Program: Workbook. New York: Oxford University Press

Stice, E., & Presnell, K. (2007). The Body Project: Promoting Body Acceptance and Preventing Eating Disorders, Facilitators Guide. New York: Oxford University Press.

Stice, E., & Presnell, K. (2007). The Body Project: Promoting Body Acceptance and Preventing Eating Disorders, Workbook. New York:
Oxford University Press.

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