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  1. Validation Questions Are Not Enough—Bots Can Mimic Human Responses and Voices to Infiltrate Your Study: Commentary on Pennesi et al. (2026)

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, September 2026, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  2. Overburdened but Undertreated

    Article • Psychiatric Clinics of North America, March 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  3. Yes stormtrooper, these are the droids you are looking for: Identifying and preliminarily evaluating bot and fraud detection strategies in online psychological research.

    Article • Psychological Methods, March 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jillian Scheer, Dr Melissa Simone

  4. The association between gender‐affirming care and disordered eating in transgender and gender diverse individuals: Exploring appearance congruence and gender‐related motivating factors for weight loss

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  5. A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.

    Article • American Psychologist, July 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Melissa Simone

  6. More Than Identity: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Mental-Emotional Well-Being of Emerging Adults by Centering Lived Experiences of Marginalization

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, July 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melissa Simone

  7. Body image, interoceptive awareness, depression and eating disorder symptoms: Within‐group variability among sexual minority women

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, April 2023, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  8. ‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melissa Simone

  9. Can We Talk?: An Exploratory Examination of Communication Patterns Between Emerging Adults and their Parents

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melissa Simone

  10. Threats to Online Surveys: Recognizing, Detecting, and Preventing Survey Bots

    Article • Social Work Research, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melissa Simone

  11. Exploring the intersection of multiple social determinants of health and disordered eating behaviors in a population‐based sample in the United States

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, August 2022, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  12. Socioeconomic status and eating disorder prevalence: at the intersections of gender identity, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity

    Article • Psychological Medicine, May 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Melissa Simone

  13. Variability in Eating Disorder Risk and Diagnosis in Transgender and Gender Diverse College Students

    Article • Annals of Epidemiology, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  14. Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  15. Balancing data integrity concerns with ethical considerations in online research

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  16. Child and adolescent maltreatment patterns and risk of eating disorder behaviors developing in young adulthood

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  17. Social Isolation in a Population-Based Sample of Emerging Adults: Who Is on Their Own?

    Article • Emerging Adulthood, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Melissa Simone

  18. A dangerous visibility: Moderating effects of antitrans legislative efforts on trans and gender-diverse mental health.

    Article • Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, May 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Melissa Simone

  19. Diet pill and laxative use for weight control predicts first‐time receipt of an eating disorder diagnosis within the next 5 years among female adolescents and young adults

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  20. Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mood, and substance use among young adults in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Findings from project EAT

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  21. Disordered eating in a population‐based sample of young adults during the COVID ‐19 outbreak

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  22. Associations between weight talk exposure and unhealthy weight control behaviors among young adults: A person-centered approach to examining how much the source and type of weight talk matters

    Article • Body Image, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  23. The longitudinal relationship between family and peer teasing in young adulthood and later unhealthy weight control behaviors: The mediating role of body image

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, February 2021, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  24. Sexual orientation-based differential item functioning in measures of body image concerns and ideals among men.

    Article • Psychology of Men & Masculinity, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Melissa Simone

  25. A single summative global scale of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors: Findings from Project EAT, a 15-year longitudinal population-based study

    Article • Eating Behaviors, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  26. Parental Contributors to the Prevalence and Long-term Health Risks of Family Weight Teasing in Adolescence

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  27. Differential item functioning analysis for the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire among heterosexual and sexual minority men

    Article • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melissa Simone

  28. Using latent class analysis to empirically classify maltreatment according to the developmental timing, duration, and co-occurrence of abuse types

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  29. Examining vegetarianism, weight motivations, and eating disorder psychopathology among college students

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  30. Contract Negotiation Skills: A Workshop for Women in Medicine

    Article • MedEdPORTAL, June 2020, Association of American Medical Colleges

    Dr Melissa Simone

  31. Weight discrimination inflates psychological health risk and academic impairment in sexual minority cisgender college students relative to their heterosexual peers

    Article • Eating Disorders, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melissa Simone

  32. Disparities in eating disorder risk and diagnosis among sexual minority college students: Findings from the national Healthy Minds Study

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  33. Intuitive eating longitudinally predicts better psychological health and lower use of disordered eating behaviors: findings from EAT 2010–2018

    Article • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melissa Simone

  34. Disparities in self‐reported eating disorders and academic impairment in sexual and gender minority college students relative to their heterosexual and cisgender peers

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  35. Unhealthy weight control behaviors and substance use among adolescent girls: The harms of weight stigma

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  36. Gender-based differential item functioning in measures of eating pathology

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Melissa Simone

  37. The importance of face-to-face contact and reciprocal relationships and their associations with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction

    Article • Quality of Life Research, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melissa Simone

  38. Shared and non-shared risk and protective factors of binge eating and binge drinking from adolescence to young adulthood

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Melissa Simone

  39. Advocating for Fat Activism in a Therapeutic Context

    Article • Women & Therapy, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melissa Simone

  40. Empirical Sample Size Guidelines for Use of Latent Difference Score Mediation

    Article • Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Melissa Simone, Dr Melissa Simone

  41. Development and Validation of the Multicontextual Interpersonal Relations Scale (MIRS)

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, September 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Melissa Simone, Dr Melissa Simone

  42. The Dynamic Relationship between Unhealthy Weight Control and Adolescent Friendships: A Social Network Approach

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melissa Simone

  43. The role of body image psychological flexibility on the treatment of eating disorders in a residential facility

    Article • Eating Behaviors, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Melissa Simone

  44. Two distinct mediated pathways to disordered eating in response to weight stigmatization and their application to prevention programs

    Article • Journal of American College Health, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melissa Simone