Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Associate Professor
Experimental Psychology - Developmental
UH 1880C
cincin.tan@utoledo.edu

Scholars Profile

 

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2012

Research Interests 

• child eating behaviors and disordered eating
• parent-child relationships (parenting, coparenting, food parenting)
• child media use (social media, electronics, television)
• body image
• body weight stigma

Research Lab

Family and Child Development Lab

Selected Publications 

• Tan, C., & Holub, S. C. (2011). Children's Self-Regulation in Eating: Associations with Inhibitory Control and Parents' Feeding Behavior. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 36, 340-345.
• Holub, S. C., Tan, C., & Patel, S. L. (2011). Factors Associated with Parents' Obesity Stigma and Young Children's Weight Stereotypes. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 32, 118-126.
• Tan, C., & Chow, C. M. (2014). Stress and Emotional Eating: The Mediating Role of Eating Dysregulation. Personality and Individual Differences, 66, 1-4.
• 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, 40, 657-663.
• Tan, C., & Holub, S. C. (2018). The Effects of Happiness and Sadness on Children’s Snack Consumption. Appetite, 123, 169-174.
• Tan, C., Domoff, S. E., Pesch, M. H, Lumeng, J. C., & Miller, A. L. (2019). Coparenting in the Feeding Context: Perspectives of Fathers and Mothers of Preschoolers. Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity, 1-10.
• Hart, E., Tan, C., & Chow, C.M. (2020). Anti-Fat Attitudes and Dietary Restraint within Mother-Daughter Dyads: An Actor-Partner Interdependence [APIM] Analysis. Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity, 26(5), 1417-1426.
• Tan, C., Herzog, N. K.*, & Mhanna, A.* (2021). Associations between Supportive and Undermining Coparenting and Controlling Feeding Practices. Appetite, 165, 105326.
• Sherrard, A.*, Vang, M.*, & Tan. C. (2023).  Children’s Media Use and Food Approach: Associations with Temperament and Food Parenting. Appetite, 182, 106444
• Varghese, M.* & Sherrard, A.*, Vang, M.*, Tan, C. (2023). Mindful Feeding: Associations with COVID-19 related Parent Stress and Child Eating Behavior. Appetite, 180, 106363.
• Sherrard, A.* & Tan, C. (2024). Children’s Eating Behavior and Weight-Related Outcomes: A Latent Profile Analysis of Parenting Style and Coparenting. Eating Behaviors.