JENNY AMANDA DEPIERRE

JENNY AMANDA DEPIERRE
214 Canner St. • New Haven, CT 06511• jenny.depierre@yale.edu • 650.714.0504
EDUCATION:
Sept 2006 - June 2010: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Honors
Mind, Culture and Society specialization track
Minor in English
2012- 2017 (expected) New York University, New York, NY
Social Psychology, Ph.D.
Advisor: Professor David M. Amodio
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Sept 2010 – May 2012: Research Assistant, Yale University, New Haven CT
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
As a member of the Weight Stigma Initiatives team headed by Dr. Rebecca
Puhl, assisted with study design and implementation, including literature
reviewing, programming, writing IRB proposals and manuscripts, and
collecting data.
Sept 2009 – June 2010: Researcher, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Department of Psychology
Honors thesis: The Role of Biological Theories of Race in Racial Encoding
Designed and programmed the study, performed literature reviews,
applied for grant support, obtained IRB consent, ran participants, coded
and analyzed the data, wrote up the experimental findings, and presented
and defended the study for faculty members
Mar 2008 – Jun 2010: Research Assistant. Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Mind, Culture and Society Lab. PI: Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Worked closely with graduate students and other undergraduate RAs in
designing studies; carrying out literature reviews; recruiting and running
participants; coding the data and the findings with MediaLab, Remark and
Qualtrics software.
Summer 2008: Research Assistant/Translator. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Sociology.
Translated (from Swedish into English) and assisted in the preparation of
interview data collected in connection with the project Changing relationship
between work, welfare and gender equality in Europe funded by the European
Science Foundation
Summer 2007: Research Assistant. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Sociology
Assisted with literature reviewing and development of a bibliographic database
for a European project on Family, employment and welfare: The relationship
between the labour market, employment and welfare regime, funded by the 6 th
Framework research support from the European Union
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Jan – March 2010: Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Department of Human Biology.
Teaching assistant for the course Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Health.
Planned and led discussion sections, met with and assisted students with their
assignments and graded their work, edited the course website, assisted in
writing the final exam, and performed administrative duties.
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
DePierre, J.A., Puhl, R.M., & Luedicke, J.L. (2013). A new stigmatized identity? Comparisons of a
‘food addict’ label with other stigmatized health conditions. Basic and Applied Social
Psychology, 35, 1-11.
DePierre, J.A. & Puhl, R.M. (2012). Assessing experiences of weight stigmatization: A
review of self-report methodology. Obesity Facts, 5, 897-918.
DePierre, J.A., Puhl, R.M., & Luedicke, J.L. (2013). Perceptions of Food Addiction: A Comparison
with Alcohol and Tobacco. Journal of Substance Use
Puhl, R.M., Peterson J.L., DePierre, J.A., & Luedicke, J. (in press). Headless, hungry, and unhealthy: A
video content analysis of obese persons portrayed in online news. Journal of Health
Communication
Chapters
Puhl, R.M., & DePierre, J. (2012). Appearance Discrimination and the Law. In T. Cash (Ed).
Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance. Elsevier.
Puhl, R.M., Brownell, K.D., & DePierre, J.A. (2012). Bias, Discrimination and Obesity. In
G.A. Bray & C. Bouchard (eds.). Handbook of Obesity, Clinical Applications (4 th
Edition). (NY: Informa Healthcare, USA).
Research manuscripts under review and in progress
Gold, J., Puhl, R.M., Luedicke, J.L., & DePierre, J.A. (under review). Public perceptions and trust of
physicians based on body weight.
Puhl, R.M., Peterson, J.L., DePierre, J.A., & Luedicke, J. (under review) Public perceptions of
obesity-related public health messaging.
Conference Presentations
Public Perceptions of Food Addiction: Do New Labels Affect Weight Stigma?
Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL, 2012
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