معرفی
Dr. Cin Cin Tan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toledo. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas (2012) and leads the UT Family and Child Development Lab. Her research focuses on children’s eating behaviors (emotional eating, external eating), parent-child relationships, coparenting dynamics, childhood obesity, body weight stigma, and negative body talk among adolescents. She has published extensively on topics like anti-fat attitudes, feeding practices, and the intergenerational transmission of body image concerns.
Education
- PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, 2012
Research Interests
- Children’s eating pathology (restrained eating, emotional eating)
- Parent-child relationships and coparenting quality
- Body dissatisfaction and dieting behaviors in adolescents
- Impact of family dynamics on child nutrition
Her recent work explores how parental stress during the pandemic affects child eating behaviors and the role of mindful feeding strategies. She has developed scales like the Feeding Coparenting Scale (FCS) to assess parental coordination in feeding contexts. Dr. Tan is currently accepting graduate students for Fall 2025. Her lab focuses on translational research to prevent childhood obesity and improve family feeding practices.
Labs/Teams
Director of the UT Family and Child Development Lab, which examines developmental pathways of eating behaviors and family dynamics.
