Upcoming Webinars

Description:

While traditional eating disorder frameworks have primarily focused on the thinness ideal and the impact of weight stigma, contemporary body ideals have evolved to place increasing emphasis on muscularity. Consequently, individuals whose bodies deviate from socially promoted muscular ideals may encounter distinct forms of stigma. Emerging research highlights that muscularity-related stereotypes and stigma may uniquely contribute to body dissatisfaction, muscle dysmorphia, and muscularity-oriented eating disorder psychopathology. This webinar will explore how muscularity stigma may contribute to body dissatisfaction, muscle dysmorphia, and muscularity-oriented eating disorder psychopathology. In addition, the webinar will present a newly developed Experienced Low Muscularity Stigma Scale (ELMSS) as a measurement tool for assessing perceived stigma related to insufficient muscularity. The discussion will also address cross-cultural perspectives, measurement issues, and clinical implications for prevention and intervention.

• Dr. Jinbo He
  Dr. Jinbo He is an associate professor in the School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. His research focuses on eating behaviors, body image, and obesity, as well as their links with psychosocial well-being, and related prevention/intervention strategies. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Eating Disorders and Performance Enhancement & Health and sits on editorial boards of Body Image, International Journal of Eating Disorders, and Eating and Weight Disorders. His work has been cited over 4,900 times according to Google Scholar (h-index = 35). He has been recognized as one of Stanford/Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% of scientists in 2025.
  
  

• Shuqi Cui
  Shuqi Cui is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Her research focuses on body image, eating disorders, and appearance-related stigma across diverse populations. She has published in leading journals such as Health Psychology Review, Body Image, International Journal of Eating Disorders, and Journal of Eating Disorders. Currently, she is developing a new scale, the Experienced Low Muscularity Stigma Scale (ELMSS), to address gaps in muscularity stigma. Her work integrates psychometric, longitudinal, and network approaches to examine sociocultural and psychological mechanisms underlying body image and disordered eating concerns. She also serves as a reviewer for Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Journal of Eating Disorders, and European Eating Disorders Review.

• Dr. Wesley R. Barnhart
  Assistant Professor, Suffolk University

  Dr. Barnhart is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Program of the Department of Psychology at Suffolk University and Director of the Elevating Minoritized Backgrounds in Research on Appearance Concerns and Eating Disorders, or EMBRACED Lab. Dr. Barnhart's research program establishes an empirical foundation for the inclusion of multicultural nuances (e.g., identity-specific stress) in evidence-based practice for eating disorders and identifies high-risk subgroups for eating disorder symptoms among the LGBTQ+ community in the service of recognizing personalized treatment targets relevant to this community's unique, lived experiences. Dr. Barnhart's research program also establishes a global understanding of eating disorders through cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural partnerships, advancing the assessment, etiology, and intervention of eating disorders in all people. Dr. Barnhart has published over 90 peer-reviewed manuscripts, which are routinely featured in flagship eating disorders (e.g., International Journal of Eating Disorders, Journal of Eating Disorders) and body image (e.g., Body Image) journals. Their research has been cited over 1,400 times according to Google Scholar (h-index = 21). Dr. Barnhart serves as Associate Editor for Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being (Q1; IF = 3.6) and Editor for Journal of Eating Disorders (Q1; IF = 4.5), and their research has been recognized through the receipt of several awards.