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Robert Carels
rcarels@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Curriculum vita
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
Dr. Carels’ two primary research interests are weight loss and physical activity interventions and cardiovascular health.
He is interested in developing more effective weight loss and physical activity interventions for individuals that are overweight
and/or sedentary. The goal of these interventions is to help individuals reduce cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity,
physical inactivity, and high blood pressure and cholesterol. He also examines factors that impede or facilitate maintaining
lifestyle changes. Currently, he is examining a stepped-care approach to weight loss. Finally, he is interested in how psychosocial
factors influence blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmia.
Recent Publications:
Carels RA, Young KM, Coit C, Clayton, AM, Spencer, A, & Hobbs, MW. (2008 forthcoming). Can following the caloric restriction recommendations
from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans help individuals lose weight? Eating Behaviors.
Carels RA, Young, K., Coit, C, Darby, LA, Clayton, AM, Spencer, A, Hobbs, MW, & Oemig, C. (2008 forthcoming). The failure of therapist
assistance and stepped-care to improve weight loss outcomes. Obesity.
Carels, RA, Harper, J, & Konrad, KK (2007). Individual differences in food perceptions and calorie estimation: An examination of dieting
status, weight, and gender. Appetite, 49, 450-458.
Carels RA, Darby LA, Cacciapaglia HM, Konrad KK, Coit C, Harper J, Kaplar, ME, Young, K, Baylen, CA, & Versland, A (2006) Using motivational
interviewing as a supplement to obesity treatment: A stepped-care approach. Health Psychology, in press.
Konrad, KK, Carels, RA, Gardner, D. Metabolic and psychological changes during refeeding in anorexia nervosa. Eating and Weight Disorders, in press
Perez Benitez, C., O’Brien, WH, Carels, RA, Gordon, AK, Chiros, CE. Cardiovascular correlates of disclosing homosexual orientation. Stress and Health, in press
Carels, RA, Harper, J, Konrad, KK (2006). Qualitative perceptions and caloric estimations of healthy and unhealthy foods by behavioral
weight loss participants, Appetite, 46, 199-206.
Carels, RA, Darby, L, Rydin, S, Douglass, O, Cacciapaglia, H. (2005) The relationship between self-monitoring, outcome expectancies,
difficulties with eating and exercise, physical activity and weight loss in a behavioral weight loss program: Within and between
participant relationships. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 30, 182-190.
Carels, RA, Darby, L, Cacciapaglia, H, Douglass, O, Kaplar, M, Rydin, S, Tonkin, K, Konrad, K, Harper, J (2005). Applying a stepped-care
approach to the treatment of obesity, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 59, 375-383.
Carels, RA, Darby, L, Berger, B. (2006). Mood states in obese, sedentary, postmenopausal women: Predictors of physical activity and fitness.
Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 14, 12-28.
Carels, RA, Douglass, O Cacciapaglia, H, Rydin, S, Harper, J. (2006). Can social desirability interfere with success in a behavioral
weight loss program? Psychology and Health, 21(1):65-78.
Mahoney, A, Carels, RA, Pargament, K, Wachholtz, A, Edwards-Leeper, L, Kaplar, M, Frutchey, R. (2005). The sanctification of the body and the behavioral
health patterns of college students. International Journal of the Psychology of Religion, 15, 3, 221-238
Carels, RA, Darby, L, Douglass, O, Cacciapaglia, H, Rydin, S. (2005). Education on the glycemic index of foods fails to improve treatment
outcomes in a behavioral weight loss program. Eating Behaviors, 6,145-150.
Carels, RA, Darby, L, Cacciapaglia, H, Douglass, O. (2004). Reducing cardiovascular risk factors in postmenopausal women through a lifestyle
change intervention. Journal of Women’s Health,13:4, 412-426.
Carels, RA, Cacciapaglia, H, Douglass, O, Cacciapaglia, H, O’Brien, WH (2004). An ecological momentary assessment of relapse crisis in
dieting. Journal of Consulting and Clinical, 72:2, 341-348.
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