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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · 4d

The Waterloo-Wellington Eating Disorders Coalition is hosting a virtual conference on Diversifying Perspectives in Eating Disorder Care on October 24th. If you’re interested in learning more, visit this link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/diversifyi...

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Sep 10

Adults aged 18+ with a current/past #EatingDisorder: A virtual #Compassion focused therapy group will be taking place this fall semester through the @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social.

Email [email protected] ASAP if you're interested!

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Aug 15

Huge congratulations to our grad student @michellekorlacka.bsky.social who recently received #SSHRC PhD funding for her research!

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Aug 14

#TBT Sydney Waring, Konstantyn Sharpinskyi and Allison Kelly's paper published in #BodyImage addresses limitations of past research on within-person variability in body image as a predictor of maladaptive body image and eating behaviours.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Aug 7

#TBT Kathryn Miller, Allison Kelly and Giselle Kraus' paper published in #BodyImage explores how adaptive body image can be learned from hearing a peer cope with their body image distress.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations to our research assistant Cheyenne Salazar on graduating with her bachelor's degree!

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Jenessa Shaw has been presenting results from one of her dissertation studies at eating disorder treatment centers across the country. She shared a study of people who have completed feared food exposures with the Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa Association and St. Paul's Hospital to help inform treatment.

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Dr. Allison Kelly presented a poster at #CPA2025 sharing findings that #SelfCompassion indirectly promoted more help-seeking intentions and motives by facilitating greater engagement with personal feelings of distress. Thank you to everyone who came to check it out!

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations to Sundus Ismaeil and Ashling Ayekun on graduating with their bachelor's degrees! They both completed research apprenticeships with the Self-Attitudes Lab and Ashling further volunteered as an RA.

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congratulations to our 2024 and 2025 honours thesis students on graduating with their bachelor's degrees! Huge congrats to Samantha Beneteau, Hayden Wong, Mia Mackenzie, Emma Mukkadan and Doris Wang.

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 12

#TBT This qualitative study explores the pros and cons individuals with anorexia nervosa perceive to be associated with developing #SelfCompassion.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/bjc....

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 9

Come check out Dr. Allison Kelly's poster this Saturday at #CPA2025!

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congratualtions to Aleece Katan on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation! We are so proud of her for achieving this milestone.

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 5

#TBT Revisiting Sydney Waring's preliminary study on relational #BodyImage. Sydney Waring and Allison Kelly investigate how an individual's body image varies from one personal relationship to another.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · May 29

#TBT Individuals with anorexia nervosa experience considerable day-to-day variability in #SelfCompassion. For individuals with average or above average trait self-compassion these variations affect their eating pathology.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/eat....

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · May 22

#TBT Experiencing negative emotions with #SelfCompassion can momentarily improve distress tolerance by helping people feel more soothed.

Check out Jenessa Shaw and Allison Kelly's publication here: rdcu.be/dzVnQ

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · May 20

We would like to congratulate Aleece Katan who was awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship which she will be starting this fall at the University of British Columbia and St. Paul's Hospital!

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · May 15

#TBT Self-compassionate college women are found to receive more social support under heightened distress. Suggesting, #SelfCompassion may improve utilization of interpersonal coping resources when distressed.

Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · May 13

Emma Mukkadan recently presented some of her honours thesis results on #SelfCompassion, individualism, and collectivism in South Asian and White Canadians at the 2025 Conference for Undergraduate Health Research.

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · May 8

#TBT The field of #EatingDisorder research may benefit from supplementing research on trait #SelfCriticism with investigations of state self-criticism.

Read more in Allison Kelly, Aleece Katan and David Zuroff's commentary published in @intjeatdisord.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/eat....

https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24224

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Apr 28

A new publication from Aleece Katan, Jacqueline Carter and Allison Kelly provides evidence that #SelfCompassion may facilitate feelings of social safeness in individuals with eating disorders, a population known for low social safeness.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/bjc....

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Apr 24

#TBT both daily and trait #SelfCompassion can promote markers of positive mental health (positive affect and social safeness) in women with anorexia nervosa.

Read Aleece Katan, Allison Kelly and Josie Geller's paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1064...

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Apr 17

#TBT Published in #CognitiveTherapy and Research, findings suggest when a recalled event is highly threatening to #SelfEsteem, writing about the event self-compassionately encouraged deeper and lengthier disclosures to a stranger.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Apr 16

Samantha presented her honours thesis at the 2025 #UWaterloo Psychology Discovery Conference. The unique relationship between #BodyCompassion and general psychosocial functioning/eating pathology was investigated in women with bulimia nervosa when controlling for #SelfCompassion.

Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Apr 14

Honours thesis student Emma Mukkadan presented results comparing #SelfCompassion levels between South Asian and White Canadians at the 2025 #UWaterloo Psychology Discovery Conference.

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