Discipline(s):
Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Behavioral Medicine
Area(s) of Expertise:
Stress, Eating Behavior, Obesity, Cortisol, Dieting
E-Mail:
janet.tomiyama@rutgers.edu
Background:
A. Janet Tomiyama is a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of California San Francisco and Berkeley sites. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology with minors in Health and Quantitative Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles in June of 2009. Her dissertation examines the potentially deleterious psychological and biological consequences of dietary restraint, investigating whether dietary restraint causes chronic psychological stress. Her broad research interests include obesity and its twin causes, overeating and sedentary behavior, as well as the relationship between stress and health. As a Health and Society Scholar, Janet will expand her research from an individual psychological perspective to include larger social, economic, and policy macrofactors to better understand obesity. Janet received her BA in 2001 from Cornell University where she majored in Social, Personality, and Abnormal Psychology.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Ayako Tomiyama's available publications in PubMed.
