Catherine Walker, associate professor of psychology, and former students Olivia Brand ‘23 and Nathalie Gullo ‘21, along with Erin Harrop, Ph.D. from the University of Denver, recently published "The impact of weight and race on perceptions of anorexia nervosa: a replication and extension of Varnado-Sullivan et al. (2020)" in the peer-reviewed journal Eating and Weight Disorders.

This study examined how weight and race impact mental health stigma, weight stigma, perceived need for treatment, and perceived severity of anorexia nervosa We experimentally manipulated weight and race, replicating and extending Varnado-Sullivan et al. (Eat Weight Disord 25:601–608, 2020).