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Bärbel Knäuper

Bärbel Knäuper

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
9080
World Ranking
6916
National Ranking
468

Overview

Bärbel Knäuper is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research spans several areas within psychology and medicine, with a total of 67 publications in psychology and 39 in medicine. The subfields of their work include clinical psychology, applied psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, social psychology, and physiology.

The scientist's main research topics focus on behavioral health and interventions, mindfulness and compassion interventions, eating disorders and behaviors, COVID-19 and mental health, physical activity and health, obesity, physical activity and diet, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bärbel Knäuper include:

  • Kimberly Carrière
  • Christian Preissner
  • Nellie Siemers
  • Yair Dor-Ziderman
  • Nathan Yang

Publications by Bärbel Knäuper appear often in the following venues:

  • Appetite
  • Mindfulness
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Pediatric Transplantation

Notable recent papers include:

  • Socio-demographic, social, cognitive, and emotional correlates of adherence to physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study (2021), Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • Development and Validation of the Four Facet Mindful Eating Scale (FFaMES) (2021), Appetite
  • Weight cycling is associated with adverse cardiometabolic markers in a cross-sectional representative US sample (2020), Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Efficacy of ACT-based treatments for dysregulated eating behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022), Appetite
  • Mindfulness and equanimity moderate approach/avoidance motor responses (2021), Cognition & Emotion

Best Publications

  • Limitations of Diagnostic Criteria and Assessment Instruments for Mental Disorders: Implications for Research and Policy

    Darrel A. Regier;Charles T. Kaelber;Donald S. Rae;Mary E. Farmer

  • RATING SCALES NUMERIC VALUES MAY CHANGE THE MEANING OF SCALE LABELS

    Norbert Schwarz;Bärbel Knäuper;Hans-Jürgen Hippler;Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

  • Methodological studies of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) in the US national comorbidity survey (NCS)

    Ronald C. Kessler;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Jamie M. Abelson;Katherine A. McGonagle

  • The vaccine hesitancy scale: Psychometric properties and validation.

    Gilla K. Shapiro;Gilla K. Shapiro;Ovidiu Tatar;Eve Dube;Rhonda Amsel

  • Emotional Eating and Weight in Adults: a Review

    Mallory Frayn;Bärbel Knäuper

  • Compensatory health beliefs: scale development and psychometric properties

    Bärbel Knäuper;Marjorie Rabiau;Oshra Cohen;Nicholas Patriciu

  • Lifetime risk of depression

    Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Bärbel Knäuper;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Cognition, aging, and self-reports

    Norbert Schwarz;Denise C. Park;Bärbel Knaüper;Seymour Sudman

  • FORMAL FEATURES OF RATING SCALES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF QUESTION MEANING

    Norbert Schwarz;Carla E. Grayson;Bärbel Knäuper

  • The eternal quest for optimal balance between maximizing pleasure and minimizing harm: The compensatory health beliefs model

    Marjorie Rabia;Bärbel Knäuper;Paule Miquelon

  • Mindfulness-based interventions for weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Kimberly Carrière;Bassam Khoury;Bassam Khoury;M. M. Günak;Bärbel Knäuper

  • Diagnosing major depression in the elderly: evidence for response bias in standardized diagnostic interviews?

    Bärbel Knäuper;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Improving accuracy of major depression age-of-onset reports in the US National Comorbidity Survey

    Bärbel Knäuper;Charles F. Cannell;Norbert Schwarz;Martha L. Bruce

  • A little uncertainty goes a long way: state and trait differences in uncertainty interact to increase information seeking but also increase worry.

    Natalie O. Rosen;Bärbel Knäuper

  • The Impact of Age and Education on Response Order Effects in Attitude Measurement

    Bärbel Knäuper

  • Embodied Mindfulness

    Bassam Khoury;Bärbel Knäuper;Francesco Pagnini;Natalie Trent

  • Fruitful plans: adding targeted mental imagery to implementation intentions increases fruit consumption.

    Bärbel Knäuper;Amanda McCollam;Ariel Rosen-Brown;Julien Lacaille

  • School-based sleep promotion programs: effectiveness, feasibility and insights for future research.

    Jamie Cassoff;Jamie Cassoff;Bärbel Knäuper;Sonia Michaelsen;Reut Gruber

  • Differentiating intolerance of uncertainty from three related but distinct constructs.

    Natalie O Rosen;Elena Ivanova;Bärbel Knäuper

  • Measuring health: Improving the validity of health assessments

    Barbel Knauper;Patricia A. Turner

  • Collective memories of Germans and Japanese about the past half-century.

    Howard Schuman;Hiroko Akiyama;Bärbel Knäuper

  • Looking back at anger : Reference periods change the interpretation of emotion frequency questions

    Piotr Winkielman;Bärbel Knäuper;Norbert Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Natalie O. Rosen
Natalie O. Rosen Dalhousie University
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas
Rhonda Amsel
Rhonda Amsel McGill University
Aleksandra Luszczynska
Aleksandra Luszczynska University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Norbert Schmitz
Norbert Schmitz McGill University
Scott A. Huettel
Scott A. Huettel Duke University
Gerd Bohner
Gerd Bohner Bielefeld University
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California

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