Bärbel A. Knäuper
Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Prof. Knäuper’s area of research is applied social cognition with a focus on health behaviour change. She studies how individuals make health related judgments (e.g., risk perception), how cognitions (e.g., health beliefs) influence health behavior, and develops and evaluates interventions to change healthy behaviour. Currently, she studies these processes mainly in the areas of eating behaviour (dieting, obesity, diabetes), physical activity behavior, medication adherence, and mindfulness, and directs the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program. Her methodological interests include the construction of psychometric scales, questionnaire design, and the validity of self-reports. Prof. Knäuper supervises clinical and experimental psychology graduate students.
Research Interest
Social & Personality
Publications
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Lacaille, J., Ly, J., Zacchia, N., Bourkas, S., Glaser, E., & Knäuper, B. (2014). The effects of three mindfulness skills on chocolate cravings. Appetite, 76, 101-112.
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Knäuper, B., Ivanova, E., Xu, Z., Chamandy, M., Lowensteyn, I., Joseph, L., Luszczynska, A., & Grover, S. (2014). Increasing the effectiveness of the Diabetes Prevention Program through if-then plans: Study protocol for the randomized controlled trial of the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program. BMC Public Health, 14, 470.
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Lacaille, J., Sadikaj, G., Nishioka, M., Flanders, J., & Knäuper, B. (in press). Measuring mindful responding in daily life: Validation of the Daily Mindful Responding Scale (DMRS). Mindfulness.
