Shayla C. Holub

Biography

Dr. Shayla Holub is known for her research in the area of childhood obesity. Her work investigates how parents socialize their children𔄩s eating habits through their feeding practices, such as pressuring children to eat or restricting their food intake. Dr. Holub’s work also examines factors related to why some children maintain their ability to self-regulate food intake (i.e., eat when hungry and stop when full), while other children lose this natural ability. She is also interested in the development of attitudes about weight (early developing body image and weight prejudice). She serves on a number of UT Dallas committees and in 2015 received the Aage Møller Teaching Award from the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences for her outstanding work in the classroom. Dr. Holub earned her bachelor’s degree from Millikin University and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University.

Recent and Selected Representative Publications

Recent Articles in Peer-Refereed Journals

Tan, C., & Holub, S. C. (2018). The effects of happiness and sadness on children’s snack consumption. Appetite, 123, 169-174.

Ruhl, H., Holub, S. C., & Dolan, E. A. (2016). The Reasoned/Reactive Model: A new approach to examining eating decisions among female college dieters and nondieters. Eating Behaviors, 23, 33-40.

Tan, C., Holub, S. C. (2015). Emotion Regulation Feeding Practices Link Parents’ Emotional Eating to Children’s Emotional Eating: A Moderated Mediation Study. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.