Michael Lowe
Professor
Department of Psychology
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
My research involves studying eating and weight regulation - and eating and weight disorders - from the perspective of clinical psychology, nutritional science, psychobiology, and neuroscience. The following describes five general areas in which my research group has been exploring these domains
Research Interest
Psychobiology of eating and weight regulation (dieting, treatment and prevention of eating disorders and obesity); Social cognition (empirical study of conscious and unconscious cognitive processing)
Publications
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"Lowe, M. R., Arigo, D., Butryn, M.L., Gilbert, J., Sarwer, D. & Stice, E. (in press). Hedonic hunger prospectively predicts onset and maintenance of loss of control eating among college women. Health Psychology. "
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Lowe, M.R. (in press). Weight suppression. In K. Brownell & T. Walsh (Eds.), Eating disorders and obesity: A comprehensive handbook (3rd ed). New York: Guilford.
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"Lowe, M.R., Feig, E.H., Winter, S.R. & Stice, E. (in press). Short-term variability in body weight predicts long-term weight gain. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition."
