Eric Stice, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Department of Psychology
SEA 3.318
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
512.232.2334
stice@psy.utexas.edu
Adolescent Health and Development Lab
Please Note:
Dr. Stice will not be accepting any graduate students in the future.
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My program of research focuses on understanding the etiologic processes that give rise to adolescent psychopathology, including eating disorders, obesity, depression, and substance abuse, and seeks to develop prevention programs for these problems.
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.
Minority Training Supplement, National Institute of Mental Health. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Total costs = $138,602. 7/06-6/08.
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.
Minority Training Supplement, National Institute of Mental Health. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Total costs = $101,039. 7/04-3/06.
Minority Training Supplement, National Institute of Mental Health. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Total costs = $112,230. 3/04-4/06.
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.
Infrastructure Support Proposal, Office of National Drug Control Policy. University of Texas Graduate Education and Research in Illicit Drug Addiction. Co-Investigator. Total costs = $6,836,446. 5/03-4/06.
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.
National Research Service Award (F31), Individual Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. Testing the Affect-Expectancy Model of Bulimic Pathology. Principal Investigator/ Mentor. Total costs = $105,100. 6/02-5/05.
Investigator Initiated Research Grant, E. Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Depression Prevention Program for Adolescents. Principal Investigator. Direct costs = $58,519. 1/02-8/03.
Minority Training Supplement, National Institute of Mental Health. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Total costs = $18,390. 8/01-7/02.
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.
National Research Service Award (F31), Individual Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. Gender-Specific Risks for Depression in Adolescent Girls. Principal Investigator/ Mentor. Total costs = $94,544. 9/00-8/04.
Investigator Initiated Research Grant, E. Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Texas Body Acceptance Project. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $36,409. 1/00-6/01.
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.
Exploratory-Development Grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Role of Tobacco Dependence in Alcoholism Treatment. Collaborator. Total costs= $317,780. 9/96-9/98.
Presnell, K., Stice, E., & Tristan, J. (in press). An experimental investigation of the effects of naturalistic dieting on bulimic symptoms: Moderating effects of depressive symptoms. Appetite.
Stice, E., Cooper, J. A., Schoeller, D. A., Tappe, K., & Lowe, M. R. (in press). Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of moderate- to long-term dietary restriction? Objective biological and behavioral data suggest not. Psychological Assessment.
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., 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.
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.
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.

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