Our current understanding of the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders and obesity
continues to be far from complete. Similarly, our understanding of determinants of both …

Objective Eating disorders and borderline personality disorder have high rates of
comorbidity. However, the extent to which individual BPD symptoms are elevated in patients …

Abstract Models of anorexia nervosa (AN) posit that symptoms are maintained through
deficient reward and enhanced punishment processing. However, theoretical and empirical …

Objective Preliminary research has found evidence to suggest alexithymia acts as a risk
factor for the development of psychopathology symptoms, due to its impairing role on …

Objective A critical factor for adaptive psychological functioning is the ability to successfully
regulate negative and positive emotions. Various tools and methods have been developed …

Prior research suggests that the construct of emotional instability may be salient to bulimia
nervosa (BN), but no study to date has used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to …

Objective Adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) often show increased levels of exercise
and physical activity. Psychological models suggest that physical activity in AN might …

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex and life‐threatening eating disorder. Current models of
AN onset and maintenance have largely focused on the role of negative affect, while fewer …

The role of positive emotion in anorexia nervosa (AN) has been underappreciated in both
theory and treatment. Yet, people with AN demonstrate high motivation for and sustained …

Affective instability, conceptualized as fluctuations in mood over time, has been related to ill-
health and psychopathology. In this study, we examined the role of affective instability on …