Deborah Wallis
Lecturer
Contact details
Room: GG.1.10
Phone: +44 (0)1509 222760
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223940
Email: D.Wallis@lboro.ac.uk
Background
Undergraduate degree in Psychology (Dundee) followed by MSc in Psychological Research Methods (Stirling) and PhD on cognitive and emotional factors in the stress-eating relationship (Liverpool). Lecturer in Psychology at De Montfort University (2005-2006), then appointed at Loughborough in November 2006.
Research Interests
I am an experimental psychologist with specific research interests in cognitive and emotional controls of appetite and food intake, and attention and emotional processing in disordered eating. Previous research projects include the effects of alcohol on appetite, and gene-environment interactions in the maintenance of energy balance in children.
Current research
- Stress and eating
- Dieting and cognitive function
- Mealtime practices in eating disorder units
- Attentional biases and attention training in the eating disorders
- Emotion recognition and social processing in disordered eating
- Disordered eating in athletes
- Effects of cancer diagnosis and treatment on cognitive and emotional functioning
Selected publications
- Long, S., Wallis, D.J., Leung, N., Arcelus, J., & Meyer, C. (In press). Mealtimes on eating disorder wards: a two study investigation. International Journal of Eating Disorders. DOI: 10.1002/eat.20916
- Long, S., Meyer, C., Leung, N., & Wallis, D.J. (2011). Effects of distraction and focused attention on actual and perceived food intake in females with non-clinical eating psychopathology. Appetite, 56(2), 350-356.
- Ridout, N., Thom, C., & Wallis, D.J. (2010). Emotion recognition and alexithymia in females with sub-clinical eating psychopathology. Eating Behaviors, 11, 1-5.
- Wallis D.J., & Hetherington, M.M. (2009). Emotions and eating: self-reported and experimentally-induced changes in food intake under stress. Appetite, 52, 355-362.
- Cecil, J.E., Palmer, C.N.A., Fischer, B., Watt, P., Wallis, D.J., Murrie, I.S.L., & Hetherington, M.M. (2007). Variants of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor g- and b-adrenergic receptor genes are associated with measures of compensatory eating behaviors in young children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 86, 167-173.
- Cecil, J.E., Watt, P., Murrie, I.S.L., Wrieden, W., Wallis, D.J., Hetherington, M.M., Bolton-Smith, C., & Palmer, C.N.A. (2005). Childhood obesity and socioeconomic status: a novel role for height growth limitation. International Journal of Obesity, 29, 1199-1203.
- Cecil, J.E., Palmer, C.N.A., Wrieden, W., Murrie, I.S.L., Bolton-Smith, C., Watt, P., Wallis, D.J., & Hetherington, M.M. (2005). Energy intakes of children after preloads: adjustment, not compensation. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 82(2),302-308.
- Wallis, D.J., & Hetherington, M.M. (2004). Stress and eating: the effects of ego-threat and cognitive demand on food intake in restrained and emotional eaters. Appetite, 43(1), 39-46.
- Hetherington, M.M., Cameron, F., Wallis, D.J., & Pirie, L.M. (2001). Stimulation of appetite by alcohol. Physiology and Behavior, 74(3), 283-289.
You can view a fuller publications list on the University Publications Database.
External Activities
- Journal Referee
- Appetite
- British Journal of Nutrition
- Eating Behaviors
- European Eating Disorders Review
- Journal of Health Psychology
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
- Physiology and Behavior
- Psychology and Health
- Learned Societies and Professional Affiliations
- Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO)
- British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN)
- British Feeding and Drinking Group (BFDG)
- British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour (SSIB)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
- Invited Lecture / Keynotes
- Acute effects of cognitive and emotional stressors on food choice and intake. Departmental of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University (February 2008)
- Collaborative Research
- Aston University, Birmingham
- University of Leeds
- Other Evidence of Esteem
- Invited speaker: Benjamin Franklin Lafayette Seminar on Issues in Ingestive Behavior, Frejus, France (June 2006 & June 2011).