Eric Stice, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Department of Psychology
SEA 4.224
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
512.232.2334
stice@psy.utexas.edu
Please Note:
Dr. Stice does not anticipate accepting new graduate students
for the next two academic years (2004 - 2006).
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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.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
2003- Senior Scientist, Oregon Research Institute
2002- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
2001- Visiting Assistant Professor (Summer), Department of Psychology, University of Washington
2000- Fellow (Summer), Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
1999- Visiting Assistant Professor (Summer), Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University
1998- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
1996-98 Postdoctoral 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
EDUCATION
1996 Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University
1992 M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University
1989 B.S. in Psychology, University of Oregon (Summa Cum Laude)
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
Small Business Technology Transfer Grant (STTR), National Institutes of Health. Training Program for Eating Disorder Prevention. Principal Investigator. Phase I total costs = $155,000. Pending.
Investigator Initiated Research Grant (R01), National Institutes of Health. Eating Disorder Prevention Program Effectiveness Trial. Principal Investigator. Total costs = $1,906,250. Pending.
Minority Training Supplement, National Institute of Mental Health. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Total costs = $101,039. 7/04-1/06.
Minority Training Supplement, National Institute of Mental Health. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Total costs = $112,230. 3/04-2/06.
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. 2/01-1/06.
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.
National Research Service Award (F31), Individual Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. A Targeted Eating Disorder Prevention Program. Principal Investigator/Mentor. Direct costs = $112,500. 8/00-8/03. Trainee had to decline award.
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.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Fairburn, C.F., Wilson, G.T., Agras, W.S., Welch, T., & Stice, E. (in press). Early change in treatment predicts outcome in bulimia nervosa. American Journal of Psychiatry.
Kaufman, N. K., Rohde, P., Seeley, J. R., Clarke, G. N., & Stice, E. (in press). Mediators of cognitive behavioral treatment for adolescents with comorbid major depression and conduct disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Krones, P. G., Stice, E., Batres, & Orjada, K. (in press). In-vivo social comparison to a thin-ideal peer promotes body dissatisfaction: A randomized experiment. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Presnell, K., Bearman, S.K., & Stice, E. (in press). Risk factors for body dissatisfaction in adolescent boys and girls: A prospective study. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Shaw, H., & Stice, E. (in press). A review of eating disorder prevention programs. Journal of Behavioural Psychology.
Stice, E., Presnell, K., Groesz, L., & Shaw, H. (in press). Effects of a weight maintenance diet on bulimic pathology: An experimental test of the dietary restraint theory. Health Psychology.
Stice, E., Presnell, K., Shaw, H., & Rohde, P. (in press). Psychological and behavioral risk factors for onset of obesity in adolescent girls: Evidence of multiple pathways to obesity. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Wonderlich, S. A., Connolly, K. M., & Stice, E. (in press). Impulsivity as a risk factor for eating disordered behavior: Assessment implications with adolescents. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
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.
Shaw, H., Ramirez, L., Trost, A., Randall, & Stice, E. (2004). Body image and eating disturbances across ethnic groups: More similarities than differences. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18, 12-18.
Shaw, H., Stice, E., & Springer, D. W. (2004). Perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem in predicting bulimic symptomatology: Lack of replication. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 36, 41-47.
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., Fisher, M., & Martinez, E. (2004). Eating disorder diagnostic scale: Additional evidence of reliability and validity. Psychological Assessment, 16, 60-71.
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., Maxfield, J., & Wells, T. (2003). Adverse effects of social pressure to be thin on young women: An experimental investigation of the effects of Òfat talkÓ. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 34, 108-117.
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., Trost, A., & Chase, A. (2003). Healthy weight control and dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Results from a controlled trial. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 33, 10-21.
Shaw, H., & Stice, E. (2002). A satisfying course on body image and eating disorders. Contemporary Psychology, 47, 519-520.
Stice, E. (2002). Risk and maintenance factors for eating pathology: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 825-848.
Stice, E., Kirz, J., & Borbely, C. (2002). Disentangling adolescent substance use from problem use within a clinical sample. Journal of Adolescent Research, 17, 122-142.
Stice, E., Presnell, K., & Spangler, D. (2002). Risk factors for binge eating onset: A prospective investigation. Health Psychology, 21, 131-138.
Stice, E., & Ragan, J. (2002). A controlled evaluation of an eating disturbance psychoeducational intervention. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 31, 159-171.
Stice, E., & Shaw, H. (2002). Role of body dissatisfaction in the onset and maintenance of bulimic pathology: A synthesis of research findings. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 53, 985-993.
Stice, E., & Whitenton, K. (2002). Risk factors for body dissatisfaction in adolescent girls: A longitudinal investigation. Developmental Psychology, 38, 669-678.
Aarons, G. A., Brown, S. A., Stice, E., & Coe, M. T. (2001). Psychometric evaluation of the marijuana and stimulant effect expectancy questionnaires for adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 26, 219-236.
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.
Lesar, M., Arnow, B., & Stice, E. (2001). Private high school students as a high risk group for bulimic pathology. Eating Disorders: Prevention and Treatment, 9, 125-139.
Shaw, H., & Stice, E. (2001). Body image and eating disturbances as risk factors for depression. Prevention Researcher, 8, 10-11.
Spangler, D., & Stice, E. (2001). Validation of the Beliefs About Appearance Scale. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25, 813-827.
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., Agras, W. S., Telch, C. F., Halmi, C., Mitchel, J., & Wilson, T. (2001). Subtyping binge eating disordered women along dietary restraint and negative affect dimensions. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 30, 11-27.
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., Chase, A., Stormer, S., & Appel, A. (2001). A randomized trial of a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 29, 247-262.
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., Spangler, D., & Agras, W. S. (2001). Exposure to media-portrayed thin-ideal images adversely affects vulnerable girls: A longitudinal experiment. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 20, 271-289.
Thompson, J. K., & Stice, E. (2001). Thin-ideal internalization: Mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body image disturbance and eating pathology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 181-183.
Stice, E., Akutagawa, D., Gaggar, A., & Agras, W. S. (2000). Negative affect moderates the relation between dietary restraint and binge eating. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 27, 218-229.
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., Mazotti, L., Weibel, D., & Agras, W. S. (2000). Dissonance prevention program decreases thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, negative affect, and bulimic symptoms: A preliminary experiment. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 27, 206-217.
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.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Behavior Therapy 04-
Psychology of Women Quarterly 03-
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 02-
International Journal of Eating Disorders 00-
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 99-
REVIEWER
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; Appetite; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Behavior Therapy; Behaviour Research and Therapy; British Journal of Health Psychology; Child Development; Developmental Psychology; Health Psychology; International Journal of Eating Disorders; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Early Adolescence; Journal of Pediatrics; Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Studies on Alcohol; Pediatrics; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Prevention Science; Preventive Medicine; Sex Roles
REVIEWER - GRANTS
Regular Member, Adult Psychopathology and Disorders of Aging Review Group (APDA), National Institute of Mental Health, 03-
Ad Hoc Member, Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 SSS-C (07), National Institute of Mental Health, 03
Ad Hoc Member, Special Emphasis Panel ZMH1 BRB-S-15, National Institute of Mental Health, 03
Ad Hoc Member, Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 SSS-N-50, National Institute of Mental Health, 03
Ad Hoc Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 03
Regular Member, Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes - 5 Review Group (BBBP-5), National Institute of Mental Health, 02-03
Ad Hoc Member, PPP Foundation, London, United Kingdom, 02
Ad Hoc Member, University Grants Committee, of Hong Kong, China, 02
Ad Hoc Member, Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior Integrated Review Group, National Institute of Mental Health, 01
Ad Hoc Member, William T. Grant Foundation, 01
Ad Hoc Member, Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes-6, National Institute of Mental Health, 01
Ad Hoc Member, Minority Dissertation Research Grants Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute of Mental Health, 01
Child Neglect Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute of Mental Health, 00
Arizona State University Research Development Awards 93

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