Mallory Frayn

• 2015 - Present | Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
• 2012 - 2015 | Bachelor of Arts in Honours Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

• Garcia Manjarrez, E., Frayn, M., Knäuper, B., Dominguez Garcia, V., Escalante Izeta, E. I., & Laguna Camacho, A. What constitutes healthy or unhealthy breakfasts? Beliefs of women with overweight and obesity vs. expert opinions. Under review at Eating Behaviours
• Knäuper, B., Shireen, H., Carrière, K., Frayn, M., Ivanova, E., Xu, Z., Lowensteyn, I., Sadikaj, G., Luszczynska, A., Grover, S., & McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program Investigators (2020). The effect of if-then plans on weight loss: Results of the 24-month follow-up of the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program randomized controlled trial. Trials, 21(1), 40-47.
• Frayn, M., Carrière, K., & Knäuper, B. (2017). Physician-delivered weight loss interventions in Canada: A case example and recommendations for future implementation. Under review at Canadian Family Physician
• Frayn, M., & Knäuper, B. (2016). Emotional eating and weight: A review. Current Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s12144-017- 9577-9
• Frayn, M., Sears, C., & von Ranson, K. (2016). A sad mood increases attention to unhealthy food images in women with food addiction. Appetite,100, 55-63.
• Popien, A., Frayn, M., von Ranson, K., & Sears, C. (2015). Eye gaze tracking reveals heightened attention to food among adults with binge eating when viewing real-world scenes, Appetite, 91, 233-240.

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• Frayn, M., Ivanova, E., Carriere, K., Knäuper, B., & the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program Investigators. (2017, June). Emotional eating and weight loss in the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Study. Poster presented at the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.
• Frayn, M., Litovsky, P., & Knäuper, B. (2017, June). Feasibility of a Physician-Delivered ACT-Based Intervention to Improve Weight Loss for Emotional Eaters. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Toronto, Ontario.
• Sears, C., Frayn, M., & von Ranson, K. (2016). A sad mood increases attention to unhealthy food images in individuals with food addiction. Poster to be presented at the 2016 Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Victoria, British Columbia.
• von Ranson, K.M., Frayn, M., Popien, A., & Sears, C.R. (2015, June). Recent binge eating is associated with distinct attentional patterns to food images: an eye gaze tracking study. Presented at the 76th annual convention for the Canadian Psychological Association (part of the symposium "Cognitive Markers of Psychopathology"), Ottawa, Ontario.
• Frayn, M., von Ranson, K., & Sears, C. (2015, May). Mood and attention to food images in individuals with symptoms of food addiction. Poster presented at the 2015 Canadian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies Conference, Calgary, Alberta.
• Frayn, M., von Ranson, K., & Sears, C. (2015, May). The effect of a sad mood induction on attention to food images in participants with and without self-reported food addiction symptoms. Presentation at the 19th Annual Department of Psychology Student Research Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
• Frayn, M., von Ranson, K., Popien, A., & Sears, C. (2015, April). Eye gaze tracking reveals distinct temporal patterns of attention to food images among adults with and without binge eating. Poster presented at the International Conference for Eating Disorders, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Frayn, M., von Ranson, K., Popien, A., & Sears, C. (2014, November). Eye gaze tracking reveals heightened attention to food in individuals with binge eating disorder symptoms when viewing complex real-world scenes. Poster presented at the 2014 Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

• Customizing the Weight2lose Program

Funding: CIHR

Emotional eaters have been shown to have poorer weight loss outcomes in the context of behavioural weight loss interventions. This is thought to be the case because such programs fail to specifically target challenges related to emotional overeating. The current project will address emotional eating to improve weight loss for emotional eaters. This will be done through the implementation of a brief, behavioural intervention aimed at reducing emotional eating through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles, in combination with if-then planning. If-then plans state in an if-then format what people will do in response to a specific cue, and have been shown to facilitate behaviour change. The intervention will be delivered over 8 one-on-one sessions with physicians at the Weight2lose clinics. Weight loss and emotional eating status will be the primary measures assessed pre- and post-intervention.

• Emotional eating and weight in normal weight individuals

Funding: CIHR and FRQS

This 2-part study explores the relationship between emotional eating and weight in normal weight individuals, namely to identify the mechanisms by which normal weight emotional eaters regulate and maintain their weight. The study is comprised of both quantitative and qualitative components to gain a better understanding of the ways in which some individuals engage in emotional eating while maintaining a normal weight.

• 2017 - 2020 | FRQS Doctoral Award - $20,000

• 2015 - 2016 | Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), CGS Master’s Award - $17,500