Persky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1451117 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Persky |
| SOBRENOME | Persky |
| ASSINATURA | PERSKY |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National Human Genome Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7768-5744 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Evaluating for Evidence of Sociodemographic Bias in Conversational AI for Mental Health Support
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into healthcare highlights the need to ensure their efficacy while mitigating potential harms, such as the perpetuation of biases. Current evidence on the existence of bias within LLMs remains inconclusive. In this study, we present an approach to investigate the presence of bias within an LLM designed for mental health support. We simulated physician–patient conversations by using a communication l…
Parents see genes at play
Building and Investigating Digital Health Technologies to Promote Health Equity
Assessing Bias Toward a Black or White Simulated Patient with Obesity in a Virtual Reality-Based Genomics Encounter
Interpersonal bias based on weight and race is widespread in the clinical setting; it is crucial to investigate how emerging genomics technologies will interact with and influence such biases in the future. The current study uses a virtual reality (VR) simulation to investigate the influence of apparent patient race and provision of genomic information on medical students’ implicit and explicit bias toward a virtual patient with obesity. Eighty-f…
How shared versus unshared parental contribution to child risk influences guilt responses
The extent to which parents experience guilt related to their child’s health may depend on their perceptions of their contribution to these outcomes. The impact of the child’s “other” biological parent’s (OBP) contribution to child health on guilt responses is understudied. Some models posit a diffusion-of-responsibility process, while others favor a heightened-risk-heightened-guilt model. The present study examines how perceived OBP contribution…
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
The influence of weight on psychosocial well-being in diabetes
Weight is a key influence on the psychosocial outcomes for people with diabetes, but it operates differently in type 1 versus type 2 diabetes. By further examining the unique interaction between disease type and weight status we may be able to improve psychological well-being among affected individuals of all sizes
Recruiting Fathers for Parenting Research
Future researchers should employ father-targeted recruitment materials (rather than parent-targeted) that capitalize on fathers' unique motivations for participating in research
How beliefs about weight malleability and risk perceptions for obesity influence parents' information seeking and feeding
This study surveyed 185 parents to determine whether their perceived risk of their child developing obesity and their implicit theories about the malleability of weight independently and/or interactively predict their child-feeding and pursuit of child-related obesity risk information. Higher risk perceptions were associated with healthier feeding intentions and more information seeking. More incremental (malleable) beliefs predicted healthier fe…
Diabetes causal attributions
This study investigates the relationships among causal attributions, internalized stigma, and self-blame, along with downstream health and life satisfaction consequences for individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Data were analyzed from the Diabetes, Identity, Attributions, and Health study. Participants diagnosed with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes (N=363) were included in the analysis. Results indicated that the relationship between cau…
Social and behavioral science at the forefront of genomics
Parental reward-based eating drive predicts parents' feeding behaviors and Children's ultra-processed food intake
Parents' genetic attributions for children's eating behaviors
Designing and Assessing Multilevel Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities
Multilevel interventions can be uniquely effective at addressing minority health and health disparities, but they pose substantial methodological, data analytic, and assessment challenges that must be considered when designing and applying interventions and assessment. To facilitate the adoption of multilevel interventions to reduce health disparities, we outline areas of need in filling existing operational challenges to the design and assessmen…
Preferred level of categorization as a strategy to manage chronic illness-related identity among individuals with type 1 versus type 2 diabetes
The present investigation examined social identification management among individuals affected by chronic illness. Because diabetes is a chronic medical condition that consists of a broad superordinate group with two nested subgroups of differing relative status (type 1 versus type 2), it is well-suited to an examination of positive identity management strategies used by individuals with chronic illness. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on …
Validity of assessing child feeding with virtual reality
Identifying eating behavior phenotypes and their correlates
Interest in and reactions to genetic risk information
Framed, Interactive Theory-Driven Texting
More approaches to support weight control are needed, especially among racial minorities who shoulder a disproportionate obesity burden. Using an approach influenced by regulatory fit theory, we conducted a 28-day, 4-arm experimental trial with 89 obese adults recruited from urban, predominantly African American churches to ascertain the efficacy of framed text messages to motivate behaviors conducive to weight loss. Participants were assigned to…
Drivers of overweight mothers' food choice behaviors depend on child gender
Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback
This study explored the influence of family health history-based obesity risk feedback for their child on 147 overweight mothers’ guilt related to children’s lifestyle behaviors and passing down a genetic propensity for overweight. Mothers were randomized to receive, or not, obesity risk feedback for their 4- to 5-year-old child and then made food choices for them using a virtual reality–based buffet. Receipt of risk information increased lifesty…
Just a pinch of salt’. An experimental comparison of the effect of repeated exposure and flavor-flavor learning with salt or spice on vegetable acceptance in toddlers
Eating a Rainbow. Introducing vegetables in the first years of life in 3 European countries
Social perceptions of weight loss with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists in Black and White women with obesity
Intersectionality theory suggests that because stigma arises from the interplay of multiple marginalized identities, Black women with obesity may face stronger negative attitudes than White women when using GLP-1 agonists, a newer class of obesity medications often perceived as an 'easy way out.' This experimental study tested how exposure to different weight loss methods affected stigma toward a Black or White woman with obesity, as well as the …
Eating a Rainbow. Introducing vegetables in the first years of life in 3 European countries
Designing and Assessing Multilevel Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities
Multilevel interventions can be uniquely effective at addressing minority health and health disparities, but they pose substantial methodological, data analytic, and assessment challenges that must be considered when designing and applying interventions and assessment. To facilitate the adoption of multilevel interventions to reduce health disparities, we outline areas of need in filling existing operational challenges to the design and assessmen…
Recruiting Fathers for Parenting Research
Future researchers should employ father-targeted recruitment materials (rather than parent-targeted) that capitalize on fathers' unique motivations for participating in research
Validity of assessing child feeding with virtual reality
Drivers of overweight mothers' food choice behaviors depend on child gender
Interest in and reactions to genetic risk information
Just a pinch of salt’. An experimental comparison of the effect of repeated exposure and flavor-flavor learning with salt or spice on vegetable acceptance in toddlers
Identifying eating behavior phenotypes and their correlates
Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback
This study explored the influence of family health history-based obesity risk feedback for their child on 147 overweight mothers’ guilt related to children’s lifestyle behaviors and passing down a genetic propensity for overweight. Mothers were randomized to receive, or not, obesity risk feedback for their 4- to 5-year-old child and then made food choices for them using a virtual reality–based buffet. Receipt of risk information increased lifesty…
Parental reward-based eating drive predicts parents' feeding behaviors and Children's ultra-processed food intake
Parents' genetic attributions for children's eating behaviors
Eating a Rainbow. Introducing vegetables in the first years of life in 3 European countries
Just a pinch of salt’. An experimental comparison of the effect of repeated exposure and flavor-flavor learning with salt or spice on vegetable acceptance in toddlers
Drivers of overweight mothers' food choice behaviors depend on child gender
Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback
This study explored the influence of family health history-based obesity risk feedback for their child on 147 overweight mothers’ guilt related to children’s lifestyle behaviors and passing down a genetic propensity for overweight. Mothers were randomized to receive, or not, obesity risk feedback for their 4- to 5-year-old child and then made food choices for them using a virtual reality–based buffet. Receipt of risk information increased lifesty…
Framed, Interactive Theory-Driven Texting
More approaches to support weight control are needed, especially among racial minorities who shoulder a disproportionate obesity burden. Using an approach influenced by regulatory fit theory, we conducted a 28-day, 4-arm experimental trial with 89 obese adults recruited from urban, predominantly African American churches to ascertain the efficacy of framed text messages to motivate behaviors conducive to weight loss. Participants were assigned to…
Identifying eating behavior phenotypes and their correlates
Interest in and reactions to genetic risk information
Validity of assessing child feeding with virtual reality
Designing and Assessing Multilevel Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities
Multilevel interventions can be uniquely effective at addressing minority health and health disparities, but they pose substantial methodological, data analytic, and assessment challenges that must be considered when designing and applying interventions and assessment. To facilitate the adoption of multilevel interventions to reduce health disparities, we outline areas of need in filling existing operational challenges to the design and assessmen…
Preferred level of categorization as a strategy to manage chronic illness-related identity among individuals with type 1 versus type 2 diabetes
The present investigation examined social identification management among individuals affected by chronic illness. Because diabetes is a chronic medical condition that consists of a broad superordinate group with two nested subgroups of differing relative status (type 1 versus type 2), it is well-suited to an examination of positive identity management strategies used by individuals with chronic illness. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on …
Parents' genetic attributions for children's eating behaviors
Diabetes causal attributions
This study investigates the relationships among causal attributions, internalized stigma, and self-blame, along with downstream health and life satisfaction consequences for individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Data were analyzed from the Diabetes, Identity, Attributions, and Health study. Participants diagnosed with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes (N=363) were included in the analysis. Results indicated that the relationship between cau…
Social and behavioral science at the forefront of genomics
Parental reward-based eating drive predicts parents' feeding behaviors and Children's ultra-processed food intake
Recruiting Fathers for Parenting Research
Future researchers should employ father-targeted recruitment materials (rather than parent-targeted) that capitalize on fathers' unique motivations for participating in research
How beliefs about weight malleability and risk perceptions for obesity influence parents' information seeking and feeding
This study surveyed 185 parents to determine whether their perceived risk of their child developing obesity and their implicit theories about the malleability of weight independently and/or interactively predict their child-feeding and pursuit of child-related obesity risk information. Higher risk perceptions were associated with healthier feeding intentions and more information seeking. More incremental (malleable) beliefs predicted healthier fe…
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
The influence of weight on psychosocial well-being in diabetes
Weight is a key influence on the psychosocial outcomes for people with diabetes, but it operates differently in type 1 versus type 2 diabetes. By further examining the unique interaction between disease type and weight status we may be able to improve psychological well-being among affected individuals of all sizes
Building and Investigating Digital Health Technologies to Promote Health Equity
Assessing Bias Toward a Black or White Simulated Patient with Obesity in a Virtual Reality-Based Genomics Encounter
Interpersonal bias based on weight and race is widespread in the clinical setting; it is crucial to investigate how emerging genomics technologies will interact with and influence such biases in the future. The current study uses a virtual reality (VR) simulation to investigate the influence of apparent patient race and provision of genomic information on medical students’ implicit and explicit bias toward a virtual patient with obesity. Eighty-f…
How shared versus unshared parental contribution to child risk influences guilt responses
The extent to which parents experience guilt related to their child’s health may depend on their perceptions of their contribution to these outcomes. The impact of the child’s “other” biological parent’s (OBP) contribution to child health on guilt responses is understudied. Some models posit a diffusion-of-responsibility process, while others favor a heightened-risk-heightened-guilt model. The present study examines how perceived OBP contribution…
Evaluating for Evidence of Sociodemographic Bias in Conversational AI for Mental Health Support
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into healthcare highlights the need to ensure their efficacy while mitigating potential harms, such as the perpetuation of biases. Current evidence on the existence of bias within LLMs remains inconclusive. In this study, we present an approach to investigate the presence of bias within an LLM designed for mental health support. We simulated physician–patient conversations by using a communication l…
Parents see genes at play
Social perceptions of weight loss with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists in Black and White women with obesity
Intersectionality theory suggests that because stigma arises from the interplay of multiple marginalized identities, Black women with obesity may face stronger negative attitudes than White women when using GLP-1 agonists, a newer class of obesity medications often perceived as an 'easy way out.' This experimental study tested how exposure to different weight loss methods affected stigma toward a Black or White woman with obesity, as well as the …
Psychology (20 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Developmental psychology (14 obras) · Obesity (11 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Obesity and Health Practices (8 obras) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (8 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (6 obras)