In Preparation

2024 – 2025 Notice of Special Interest: Research on the Health of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (NOT-MD-22-012; submitting under K mechanism)

• Title: Causal and Temporal Links Between Sexual and Gender Minority Stress and Eating Disorders in LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults: A Biopsychosocial Approach

• Agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

• Role: Principal Investigator

Funded

2023 – 2024 Graduate Research Grant

• Title: Examining the Prospective Associations between Sociocultural and Minority Stress Models and Eating and Body Image Disturbances in a Community Sample of Sexual Minority Men from the United States

• Agency: Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Funded

• Direct Costs: $1,000

2023 – 2024 Katzner Graduate Student Research and Professional Development Award

• Agency: Graduate College, Bowling Green State University

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Funded

• Direct Costs: $1,000

2023 – 2024 Drs. Larry and Lorraine Nulton Clinical Psychology Research Fund Award

• Agency: Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Funded

• Direct Costs: $437

2023 – 2024 Psychology Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Fund

• Title: Integrating Sociocultural and Minority Stress Theories to Explain Eating and Body Image Disturbances in a Community Sample of Sexual Minority Men in the United States: A Prospective Study

• Agency: Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Funded

• Direct Costs: $500

2015 – 2016 Undergraduate Student Research Grant

• Agency: Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Funded

• Direct Costs: $1,034

2014 – 2015 Undergraduate Student Research Grant

• Agency: Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Funded

• Direct Costs: $1,009

Unfunded

2023 – 2024 Wayne F. Placek Grant

• Title: Examining Sociocultural and Minority Stress Models in Relation to Thinness- and Muscularity-Oriented Eating and Body Image Disturbances: A Longitudinal Study in a Community Sample of Sexual Minority Men from the United States

• Agency: American Psychological Foundation

• Role: Principal Investigator

• Status: Unfunded

• Direct Costs: $15,000

Professional Development

2018 Professional National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant Development Workshop

• Duration: 1 day

• Institution: Neuroscience Research Institute, The Ohio State University

Regional/National/International Paper Presentations

• Barnhart, W.R., Han, J., Zhang, Y., Luo, W., Li, Y., & He, J. (2024, April). Sexual self-labels and eating pathology in sexual minority men [Paper presentation]. 96th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Cui, S., He, J., Cui, T., Sun, H., Lu, Y., Barnhart, W.R., & Nagata, J.M. (2024, March). Longitudinal associations of body talk with eating and body image disturbances in Chinese adults [Paper presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Cui, T., Wang, Z., Barnhart, W.R., Ji, F., Nagata, J.M., & He, J. (2024, March). Bullying and disordered eating: Testing interpersonal and emotion dysregulation correlates in men [Paper presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• He, J., Cui, S., Cui, T., Barnhart, W.R., Han, J., Xu, Y., & Nagata, J.M. (2024, March). Muscularity teasing is more related to men’s, not women’s, eating and body image disturbances [Paper presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Cui, S., Xu, Y., Cui, T., Tan, C., Zhao, Y., Yin, J., & He, J. (2024, March). Self-objectification in Chinese pregnant women: The mixed role of functionality appreciation [Paper presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Kalantzis, M.A., Braden, A., Meschino, K., Dauber, A., & Barnhart, W.R. (2023, June). A development of norms of disordered eating, emotional eating, and body image assessments in Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African American women [Paper presentation]. 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, DC, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Cui, T., Cui, S., & He, J. (2023, June). Prospective associations between weight bias internalization and biopsychosocial correlates in Chinese adolescents [Paper presentation]. 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, DC, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., Kalantzis, M.A., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2022, April). Sex moderates relations between sociocultural appearance pressures and disordered eating [Paper presentation]. 94th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Kalantzis, M.A., & Braden, A.L. (2022, April). Mindfulness facets and eating pathology in adults with overweight/obesity [Paper presentation]. 94th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Whalen Smith, C.N., Havercamp, S.M., Barnhart, W.R., & Robinson, A.C. (2021, April). Core competencies on disability for health care education: Training the next generation of physiotherapists [Paper presentation]. World Physiotherapy Congress 2021, Virtual, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Braden, A.L., & Price, E. (2021, April). Emotional eating and emotion dysregulation relate to disordered eating [Paper presentation]. 93rd Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Virtual, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Braden, A.L. (2020, April; Accepted; Canceled due to COVID-19). Positive emotional eating and emotional reactivity predict increased binge eating [Paper presentation]. 92nd Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Robinson, A.C., Havercamp, S.M., Macerollo, A., Walton, J., Porkup, J., Crane, J., Lash, T., & Barnhart, W.R. (2019, November). Implementing disability training opportunities for future health care providers [Paper presentation]. 147th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Ellsworth, D., Myers, J., Andridge, R.R., Robinson, A.C., & Havercamp, S.M. (2019, April). Physical and mental health of caregivers: An analysis of national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data [Paper presentation]. 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Local Paper Presentations

• Kalantzis, M., Lim, S., Zoleta, C., James, S., Yannon, M., McDevitt, A., Riesgo, T., Flannigan, K., Barnhart, W.R., & Jordan, A.K. (2023, April). An ecological momentary assessment of racial microaggressions in graduate students of color: A pilot study and preliminary findings [Paper presentation]. 14th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., Angoff, H., Kalantzis, M., Johnson, A., & Dworsky, D.O. (2023, April). Adopting an intersectional approach to eating and body image disturbances in sexual and gender minority women and men [Paper presentation]. 14th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2021, April). Negative psychological correlates moderate relationships between picky eating and eating concerns in emerging adults: An exploration of picky eating facets [Paper presentation]. 12th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Kalantzis, M., Barnhart, W.R., & Braden, A.L. (2021, April). Emotional regulation difficulties moderate the relationship between negative emotional eating facets and disordered eating among adults with overweight/obesity: A secondary analysis of cross-sectional data [Paper presentation]. 12th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Braden, A.L., & Jordan, A.K. (2020, April). Positive emotional eating and increased ease of activation and intensity of positive emotional reactivity interact to predict increased binge eating [Paper presentation]. 11th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2016, March). Reward processing and risky decision making in disordered eating [Paper presentation]. 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University Newark, Newark, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Robinson, C.W., & Rivera, S. (2015, March). Auditory stimuli slow down responses and first fixations: Support for auditory dominance in adults [Paper presentation]. 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University Newark, Newark, OH, USA.

Regional/National/International Poster Presentations

• Jordan, A.K., Barnhart, W.R., & Angoff, H.D. (2024, March). Eating and body image disturbances in sexual and gender minority adults: A person-centered approach [Poster presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Kalantzis, M., Dauber, A., Jordan, A., Barnhart, W.R., Studer-Perez, E., Davis, C., & Musher-Eizenman, D. (2024, March). Toxic masculinity: Masculine behaviors, emotion regulation, and eating disorder symptoms in men [Poster presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Kalantzis, M., & Braden, A. (2024, March). Relations between emotional eating and disordered eating: Meta-analysis of three decades of research [Poster presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Costello, K.M., Roche, P.A., Pauley-Gadd, S., Borg, S., Birgegård, A., Flatt, R.E., Fundin, B., Kennedy, H. L., Mantilla, E. F., Monell, E., Thornton, L. M., Jordan, J., Kennedy, M., Martin, N. G., Bulik, C.M., Schaumberg, K., & Watson, H.J. (2024, March). Maladaptive exercise: Prevalence and correlates in people with a history of eating disorders [Poster presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Zhao, Y., Tan, C., Barnhart, W.R., Wang, Q., Liu, Y., Yin, J., Cui, S., & He, J. (2024, March). Life events are uniquely related to body image and disordered eating in Chinese pregnant women [Poster presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Han, J., Zhang, Y., Luo, W., Li, Y., & He, J. (2024, March). Beyond the bedroom: Sexual self-labels are related to eating pathology in sexual minority men [Poster presentation]. 2024 International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, USA.

• Braden, A., Barnhart, W.R., Dauber, A., Meschino, K., Kalantzis, M., Jordan, A., & Studer-Perez, E. (2024, March). Assessing emotional eating: Integration of self-report, experimental, and ecological momentary assessment results [Poster presentation]. 45th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, Society of Behavioral Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

• Cui, T., Xu, Y., Barnhart, W.R., Han, X., Ye, Z., & He, J. (2023, December). Testing the acceptance model of intuitive eating across Chinese men and women: A multigroup analysis [Poster presentation]. The 2023 International Conference on Mental Health Promotion: Summit on Lifestyle Behaviors and Health Promotion, Shenzhen, China.

• Clark, P., Wince, C., Barnhart, W.R., Buelow, M.T., Goktan, A., & Mitchell, A.M. (2023, August). Use of decision-making strategies on the Iowa gambling task varies by self-reported biological sex [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Division 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology) conference session, Washington, DC.

• Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., Kalantzis, M.A., Studer-Perez, E.I., Bailey, M.H., & Dworsky, D.O. (2023, April). Mindfulness, body appreciation, and eating pathology in sexual minorities [Poster presentation]. 95th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Lin, Y., Ren, Y., Barnhart, W.R., Cui, T., & He, J. (2023, June). The comorbidities of disordered eating, problematic internet use, and psychological distress: A longitudinal network analysis in Chinese adolescents [Poster presentation]. 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, DC, USA.

• Kalantzis, M.A., Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2023, June). The tripartite influence model of eating pathology in a sample of undergraduate and community men [Poster presentation]. 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, DC, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Cui, S., Cui, T., Hong, D., & He, J. (2023, June). Relationships between transgender congruence, body image, and disordered eating in Chinese transgender adults [Poster presentation]. 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, DC, USA.

• Jordan, A.K., Barnhart, W.R., Kalantzis, M.A., Studer-Perez, E., & Bailey, M. (2023, June). Drive for muscularity does not moderate the relationship between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in LGBTQ-identifying individuals [Poster presentation]. 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, DC, USA.

• Kalantzis, M.A., Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., Dauber, A., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2022, April). Relations between emotion dysregulation, emotional eating types, and disordered eating [Poster presentation]. 94th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Kalantzis, M.A., Barnhart, W.R., & Braden, A.L. (2022, April). An exploratory study examining the relationship between facets of self-compassion and eating behaviors in a treatment-seeking sample of adults with overweight/obesity [Poster presentation]. 43rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference, Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Braden, A.L. (2022, April). Emotion-cognitive relationships underlying eating pathology in adults with overweight/obesity [Poster presentation]. 43rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference, Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

• Ren, Y., Lu, C., Yang H., Ma, Q., Barnhart, W.R., Zhou, J., & He, J. (2021, October). Using machine learning to explore core risk factors associated with the risk of eating disorders among Chinese young women: A decision-tree classification analysis [Poster presentation]. 1st Big Bay Area Young Scholars in Psychology Conference, Virtual, International.

• Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., Studer-Perez, E.I., Kalantzis, M., Hamilton, L., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2021, April). Negative psychological correlates and eating pathology in caregivers before/during COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. 93rd Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Virtual, USA.

• Dial, L.A., Pratt, M., Varga, A.V., Studer-Perez, E.I., Barnhart, W.R., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2021, April). Parental mental health and retrospective food parenting practices [Poster presentation]. 93rd Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Virtual, USA.

• Jordan, A.K., Barnhart, W.R., Hamilton, L., Pratt, M., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2021, April). Inflexible eating interacts with picky eating to strengthen relationships with disordered eating in emerging adulthood [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting, Virtual, USA.

• Braden, A., Anderson, L., Ferrel, E., Redondo, R., Barnhart, W.R., Kalantzis, M., & Dauber, A. (2021, April). Eating when depressed, anxious, bored, or happy: An examination of treatment-seeking adults with overweight/obesity [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference, Society of Behavioral Medicine, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Hamilton, L., Jordan, A.K., Pratt, M., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2021, April). Negative psychological correlates interact with picky eating to predict disordered eating [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference, Society of Behavioral Medicine, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Braden, A.L., & Dial, L.A. (2021, April). Psychosocial correlates of emotional eating [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference, Society of Behavioral Medicine, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Braden, A.L., & Dial, L.A. (2020, November). Internal facets of mindfulness correlate with emotional eating and binge eating in overweight adults [Poster presentation]. 38th Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.

• Braden, A., Anderson, L., Ferrell, E., Redondo, R., Grant, J., & Barnhart, W.R. (2020, November). Dialectical behavioral therapy for overweight emotional eaters [Poster presentation]. 38th Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.

• Robinson, A.C., Barnhart, W.R., & Havercamp, S.M. (2018, November). Developing an inclusive health promotion strategy for adults with disabilities and direct support professionals [Poster presentation]. 146th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Diego, CA, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2017, October). Changes in multisensory processing across the lifespan [Poster presentation]. 10th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2017, October). The effects of linguistic labels on visual attention in children and young adults [Poster presentation]. 10th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2016, May). Reward processing and risky decision making in disordered eating [Psi Chi poster presentation]. 88th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2016, May). Heart rate variability as a predictor of divided attention in children [Psi Chi poster presentation]. 88th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2015, October). Exploring modality dominance in children and adults: An eye tracking study [Poster presentation]. 9th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2015, May). The influence of math anxiety on behavioral decision making tasks [Psi Chi poster presentation]. 87th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Robinson, C.W., & Rivera, S. (2015, May). Identifying the costs of auditory dominance on visual processing: An eye tracking study [Psi Chi poster presentation]. 87th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.

Local Poster Presentations

• Ries, K., Durkin, B., Mills, K., Barnhart, W.R., & Braden, A.L. (2023, April). Comparing levels of situational empathy based on medium of exposure to COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. Spring 2023 Bi-Annual Psychology Department Undergraduate Research Symposium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Ries, K., Durkin, B., Mills, K., Barnhart, W.R., & Braden, A.L. (2023, April). Comparing levels of situational empathy based on medium of exposure to COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. Undergraduate Symposium for Research and Scholarship, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2023, April). Higher meal disengagement and meal presentation are uniquely related to psychological distress and lower quality of life in undergraduates [Poster presentation]. 14th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Williams, M.N., Barnhart, W.R., Jordan, A.K., & Braden, A.L. (2020, May; Accepted; Canceled due to COVID-19). Negative emotional eating is positively associated with binge eating [Poster presentation]. Spring 2020 Bi-Annual Psychology Department Undergraduate Research Symposium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Braden, A.L., & Dial, L.A. (2020, April). Acting with awareness and non-reactive mindfulness interact with negative emotional eating to predict binge eating [Poster presentation]. 11th Annual Charles E. Shanklin Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Havercamp, S.M., Ellsworth, D., Coleman, E., Lorenz, A., Whalen Smith, C.N., & Riddle, I.K. (2019, March). Evidence for the fidelity and effectiveness of Living Independent From Tobacco for people with disabilities and their caregivers [Poster presentation]. 2019 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Havercamp, S.M., Lorenz, A., & Yang, E.A. (2018, December). Better together: Cooking Matters for adults with developmental disabilities and direct support professionals [Poster presentation]. Sixth Annual Scientific Meeting of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Buelow, M.T., & Trost, Z. (2018, November). Effects of acute pain and pain-related fear on risky decision making and effort during cognitive tests [Poster presentation]. 2018 Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2016, March). Reward processing and risky decision making in disordered eating [Poster presentation]. 2016 Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2016, March). Exploring modality dominance in children and adults: An eye tracking study [Poster presentation]. 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University Newark, Newark, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2015, September). The influence of math anxiety on behavioral decision making tasks [Poster presentation]. 2015 Fall Undergraduate Research Student Poster Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2015, March). The influence of math anxiety on behavioral decision making tasks [Poster presentation]. 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University Newark, Newark, OH, USA.

Symposium

• Buelow, M.T., Brunell, A.B., & Barnhart, W.R. (2016, July). The relationship between personality characteristics and behavioral decision making task performance. In M. T. Buelow & J. Schiebener (Co-Chairs), Decision making in laboratory gambling tasks: New findings on cognitive and emotional processes, individual differences, and situational variables as predictors of decision making behavior [Symposium presentation]. 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan, Asia.