Dr Anca Sfärlea

Losing weight, gaining confidence? actual weight does not predict body (dis)satisfaction and self-esteem in adolescents with anorexia nervosa - Journal of Eating Disorders Background In line with modern-day beauty ideals, many adolescent girls strive to have a slender figure. Thus, low body weight is expected to be related to greater body satisfaction and self-esteem in...

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New paper published at the Journal of Eating Disorders! Congratulations to Linda Lukas and Laura Nuding for their excellent work and thank you to everyone involved including @belindajplatt.bsky.social

Laura Nuding präsentiert die Ergebnisse unseres systematischen Reviews zu emotionalen und sozialen Fähigkeiten bei Jugendlichen mit Essstörungen auf der #DPK2025

Heute mein Poster zur KOALA II Studie (Studienprotokoll) auf der #DPK2025 präsentiert

Nächster Halt: #dpk2025
Ich freue mich drauf!

No Evidence of Reliability Across 36 Variations of the Emotional Dot-Probe Task in 9,600 Participants - Irene Xu, Eliza Passell, Roger W. Strong, Elizabeth Grinspoon, Laneé Jung, Jeremy B. Wilmer, Lau... The emotional dot-probe task is a widely used measure of attentional bias to threat. Recent work suggests, however, that subtraction-based behavioral measures o...

Paper alert: across 10k participants & 36 versions of the emotional dot probe task, task *reliability* cannot be distinguished from 0 (!).

Raises very serious questions about the literature (how did so many find positive relations between this task and other variables).

#PsychSciSky

New week, new publication at European Eating Disorders Review. Successful replication of results from my PhD study 🥳🥳🥳
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New week, new publication at European Eating Disorders Review. Successful replication of results from my PhD study 🥳🥳🥳
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Das ist Feedback das frau sich wünscht für ihre erste Vorlesung ❤️ danke :)

Seeing oneself as an unattractive loser: Similar interpretation and memory biases in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and adolescents with depression or anxiety European Eating Disorders Review is a wide-scope journal publishing authoritative and accessible research and reviews with implications for treatment and care.

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I have not used this account a lot yet but would like to start with good news: our paper on cognitive biases in adolescent anorexia nervosa was published at European Eating Disorders Review 🥳
I am so proud of Linda Lukas and Laura Nuding and thank everyone involved @belindajplatt.bsky.social

Article in the German newspaper SZ about our latest study of stress reactivity in children of parents with depression - SZ.de @tonyafrommelt.bsky.social @prodo.bsky.social

@ancasfaerlea.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk about social and emotional processing in youth anorexia for masters students learning about clinical psychology research.