Dr. Daniel Talbot

Biography

Daniel Talbot is a lecturer in Applied Psychology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and a clinical psychology registrar at Ramsay Clinic Northside, Sydney. His research interests include body image and eating disorders in males. Specifically, he is interested in developing more sensitive tools to measure body image-related psychopathology, height dissatisfaction, and the interaction between body image and personality.

Teaching areas

Introduction to Applied Psychology
Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Health Psychology
Modes of Psychological Intervention.

Research interests and current projects

Male and female body image
Eating disorders
Personality
Obesity
Visual Perception
Examination of the interaction between narcissism and body image.
Exploration of the role of height and height dissatisfaction in precipitating and perpetuating body image-related disorders.

Research supervision

Body image and eating disorders

Of particular interest:

testing and evaluating male body image and eating disorders
attentional bias toward body and food-related stimuli
treatment avenues for eating disorders and obesity
interactions between media/social media, and body dissatisfaction

Journal articles and proceedings

Talbot, D., Mansfield, H., Hayes, S., & Smith, E. (2021). ‘She Should Not Be a Model’: The Effect of Exposure to Plus-Size Models on Body Dissatisfaction, Mood, and Facebook Commenting Behaviour. Behaviour Change, 1-13.
Talbot, D. (2021). Examination of Initial Evidence for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research.
Jonason, P. K., Talbot, D., & Anderson, J. (2021). What People Drink and Where They Drink It Can Inform Us About Their Personality. Psihologijske teme, 30(1), 115-123.
Talbot, D., & Mahlberg, J. (2021). Exploration of height dissatisfaction, muscle dissatisfaction, body ideals, and eating disorder symptoms in men. Journal of American College Health, 1-6.
Talbot, D., Cass, J., & Smith, E. (2020). Male Figural Rating Scales: A Critical Review of the Literature. Behaviour Change, 1, 15.
Jonason, P. K., Talbot, D., Cunningham, M. L., & Chonody, J. (2020). Higher-order coping strategies: Who uses them and what outcomes are linked to them. Personality and Individual Differences, 155, 109755.
Cass, J., Giltrap, G., & Talbot, D. (2020). Female body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to body images evaluated using visual search. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2821.
Talbot, D., Smith, E., & Cass, C. (2019). Male body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, body composition, and attentional bias to body stimuli evaluated using visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10(2),1-13
Talbot, D., Smith, E., & Cass, C. (2019). The relationship between psychophysical body categorization performance and male body dissatisfaction, Scientific Reports, 9(1), 3882.
Talbot, D., Cass, J., & Smith, E. (2019). Visual Body Scale for Men (VBSM): validation of a new Figural Rating Scale to measure body dissatisfaction in men, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75(3), 462-480.
Talbot, D., Cass, J., Smith, E., & Griffiths, S. (2018) Development and validation of the New Somatomorphic Matrix - Male (NSM-M): A figural rating scale for measuring male actual-ideal body discrepancy. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 20 (3), 356-367.
Talbot, D., Van der Burg, E., & Cass, J. (2017). Stereoscopic segmentation cues improve visual timing performance in spatiotemporally cluttered environments. i-Perception, 8(2), 1-16.
Talbot, D., Smith, E., Tomkins, A., Brockman, R., & Simpson, S. (2015). Schema modes in eating disorders compared to a community sample. Journal of Eating Disorders, 3(1), 1-4.

Professional affiliations

Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS)

In the media

Blog post: Women are more likely to leave a plus-size model a negative comment on social media if others already have.

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