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Dr. Shannon O’Connor, Assistant Professor, received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University in 2018. She then completed an NIMH-funded Midwest T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Eating Disorder Research at the University of Chicago from 2018 to 2020. Dr. O’Connor’s research interests center on how key environmental risk factors interact with genetic risk for eating pathology, such as binge eating and weight preoccupation. Her work primarily examines the interaction between genetic risk and peer and parent influence and the role of food insecurity as an environmental risk factor for eating disorders. She teaches clinical courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs.
Research interests
Centers on how key environmental risk factors interact with genetic risk for eating pathology, such as binge eating and weight preoccupation, and primarily examines the interaction between genetic risk and peer and parent influence and the role of food insecurity as an environmental risk factor for eating disorders.
Teaching
Clinical courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs
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Research output
- 23 Article
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Exploring differences in disordered eating and related appetitive traits among women based on childhood and current food security status
O'Connor, S. M., Zickgraf, H. F., Hazzard, V. M., Haller, L. L. & Wildes, J. E., Apr 2023, In: Eating Behaviors. 49, 101729.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of stress in the association among food insecurity, eating disorder pathology, and binge eating-related appetitive traits
Kosmas, J. A., Wildes, J. E., Graham, A. K. & O'Connor, S. M., Apr 2023, In: Eating Behaviors. 49, 101709.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the possibility of parents' broad internalizing phenotype acting through passive gene-environment correlations on daughters' disordered eating
O'Connor, S. M., Mikhail, M., Anaya, C., Haller, L. L., Burt, S. A., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G. & Klump, K. L., 19 Dec 2022, In: Development and Psychopathology. 34, 5, p. 1744-1755 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Food insecurity is associated with eating disorders independent of depression and anxiety: Findings from the 2020–2021 Healthy Minds Study
Zickgraf, H. F., Hazzard, V. M. & O'Connor, S. M., Mar 2022, In: International Journal of Eating Disorders. 55, 3, p. 354-361 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Associations between objective physical activity and emotional eating among adiposity-discordant siblings using ecological momentary assessment and accelerometers
Smith, K. E., O'Connor, S. M., Mason, T. B., Wang, S., Dzubur, E., Crosby, R. D., Wonderlich, S. A., Salvy, S. J., Feda, D. M. & Roemmich, J. N., Mar 2021, In: Pediatric Obesity. 16, 3, e12720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Scopus citations