Shannon O'Connor, Ph.D.
Dr. O'Connor will be considering new graduate applicants for fall 2026
Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2018
Research Interests
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risk factors for disordered eating and clinical eating disorders
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interplay of genes and environment
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parental and peer influences on disordered eating
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food insecurity
Research Lab
Selected Publications
- O’Connor, S. M., Zickgraf, H. F., Hazzard, V. M., Haller, L. L., & Wildes, J. E. (2023). Exploring differences in disordered eating and related appetitive traits among women based on childhood and current food security status. Eating Behaviors, 49,101729.
- O’Connor, S. M., Mikhail, M., Anaya, C., Haller, L., Burt, S. A., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G., & Klump, K. L. (2022). Exploring the possibility of parents' broad internalizing phenotype acting through passive gene-environment correlations on daughters' disordered eating. Development and Psychopathology, 34(5), 1744-1755.
- Zickgraf, H. F., Hazzard, V., & O’Connor, S. M. (2022). Food insecurity is associated with eating disorders independent of depression and anxiety: Findings from the 2020-21 Healthy Minds Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55(3), 354-361.
- O’Connor, S. M., Hazzard, V. M., & Zickgraf, H. F. (2022). Exploring differential item functioning on eating disorder measures by food security status. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 27(4), 1449-1455.
- Mikhail, M. E., Carroll, S. L., Clark, D. A., O’Connor, S. M., Burt, S. A., & Klump, K. L. (2021). Context matters: Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with increased disordered eating and earlier activation of genetic influences in girls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(8), 875-885.
- O’Connor, S. M., Culbert, K. M., Mayhall, L. A., Burt, S. A. & Klump, K. L. (2020). Differences in genetic and environmental influences on shape and weight concerns across pubertal development in females. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 121,39-46.
- O’Connor, S. M., Burt, S. A., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G, & Klump, K. L. (2019). Elucidating factors underlying parent-offspring similarity in eating pathology in pre- and early puberty: Exploring the possibility of passive gene-environment correlation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(7), 658-670.
- O’Connor, S. M., Beam, C. R., Luo, X., Cohen, L. A., VanHuysse, J. L., Emery, R. E., Turkheimer, E., Keel, P. K., Burt, S. A., Neale, M., Boker, S., Sisk, C. L., & Klump, K. L. (2017). Genetic and environmental associations between body dissatisfaction, weight preoccupation, and binge eating: Evidence for a common factor with differential loadings across symptom types. International Journal of Eating Disorders,50(2), 157-161.
- O'Connor, S. M., Burt, S. A., VanHuysse, J. L., & Klump, K. L. (2016). What drives the association between body-conscious peer groups and disordered eating? Disentangling genetic and environmental selection from pure socialization effects. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,125(3), 356-368.
- O’Connor, S. M., Klump, K. L., VanHuysse, J. L, McGue, M., & Iacono, W. G. (2015). Does parental divorce moderate heritability of body dissatisfaction?: A replication using figural rating scales. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 49(2), 186-190.
