C. Peter Herman - Social Influences on Eating

FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada), B.S. Tufts University (1971), Ph.D. Northwestern University (1974) was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago from 19741977, and at the University of Toronto from 19771980, where she served as Associate Professor until 1985, and Full Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the until her retirement in 2013, when she became Professor Emerita. She was elected to the Council of the College of Psychologists of Ontario in 1994, where she served two 3-year terms, and was Chair of the Registration Committee, Fitness to Practice Committee, Government Relations Committee; Member of the Executive Committee; and Vice-President of the College. She has served on various committees for the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, as well as other professional organizations, and on scientific panels for the US and Canadian governments. She served for 3 years as the treasurer of the Academy for Psychological Clinical Science and served as Member-at-Large on the board of the Association for Psychological Science from 20102013, and on their nominating committee from 20132015. She served on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Psychology Grants committee several times, chairing it twice. Her research has focused on the difficulties of self-regulation and self-change (the false hope syndrome), the influences of restrained eating and caloric restriction on cognition, emotion, and behavior, the influences of personality (in particular, restrained eating, or chronic dieting), emotion, cognition and sociocultural factors on eating behavior, and various aspects of body image, media influences and self-esteem. Her research is widely cited, so much so that she was listed by ISIHighlyCited.com as one of the worlds most cited researchers (comprising less than one half of one percent of all currently publishing researchers). She won the University of Toronto-Mississauga Research Excellence Award in 2009, and has been an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2006.