Kevin Thompson's Body Image Research Group


Mike Boroughs

Guy Cafri
Guy Cafri will be a third-year graduate student in the Department of psychology at USF this Fall and has worked in the lab for two years prior to his entrance into the graduate program. His general interest is in the assessment of male body image and body change behaviors, although the concentration of his work has been in the area of methodological issues surrounding male body image assessment. Other interests include assessment of tanning attitudes and behaviors.

Sylvia Herbozo
Susan Himes

Megan Roehrig
Megan Roehrig is a sixth-year doctoral student. She is broadly interested in health psychology, and her research focuses on assessment, risk factors, prevention, and early intervention for eating pathology and body image disturbances.

Hemal Shroff
Steffanie Sperry
Patricia van den Berg

Yuko Yamamiya
Yuko Yamamiya is a fourth-year doctoral student. She has completed her Masters at Old Dominion University in Virginia under the supervision of Dr. Tom Cash. Her research interests are body-image disturbances among young population across different cultures, and social factors that influence body-image development. Her current research project is about men's internalization of sociocultural ideal of female media image and how the internalization levels affect the men's evaluation of "real life" women in their lives.