Dr Charlotte Hardman

Research summary

Research interests

• Determinants of eating behavior in children;
• Affective and motivational determinants of eating (liking and wanting);
• Expectations about satiety and satiation;
• Attentional bias for food-related stimuli and attentional training;
• Increasing healthy lifestyle behaviours;
• Obesity.

Current projects include:

• Dopamine, appetite and food “addiction”.
• Affective (liking) and non-affective (wanting) determinants of eating.
• Attention and food (attentional bias and attentional training).
• Psychological predictors of weight change in university students
• ‘Attachment orientation’, parental feeding strategies and eating behavior in children.
• Distraction and over-eating in children.

Funding and awards

• Hardman, C. A. (Principal Investigator), Horne, P. J., & Lowe, C. F. (2006-07). The development of ...

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Biography

I graduated from the University of Leeds in 2000 with a BSc in Psychology (1st class). I then worked as a research assistant in the School of Psychology at Bangor University on a multi-component school-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children (the Food Dudes Programme). In my PhD research, also conducted at Bangor (2002-2005), I developed and evaluated an intervention to increase children’s physical activity (the Fit ‘n’ Fun Dudes Programme). I remained at Bangor to conduct post-doctoral research during which I was involved in the roll-out and large-scale evaluation of the Food Dudes programme in ...

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