Research Interest

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  Research program consists of two lines of work. The first line focuses on factors that influence perceptions of attractiveness (e.g., hair and other physical cues, body image). Findings are viewed from a social evolutionary perspective. The second line of research focuses on the role of religious symbols and pregnancy on perceptions of professional competence and personality characteristics.

  
  

  
  

Selected Publications

• Kline, J.P., Knapp-Kline, K., Schwartz, G.E.R., & Russek, L.G. (2001) Anterior asymmetry, defensiveness, and perceptions of parental caring.  Personality and Individual Differences, 31, 1135-1145

  
  

  Knapp, K., Ring, C., & Brener, J. (1997).  Sensitivity to mechanical stimuli and the role of general sensory and perceptual processes in heartbeat detection.  Psychophysiology, 34, 467-473

  
  

  Knapp-Kline, K., Ring, C., Emmerich, D., & Brener, J.(2001) The sensory basis of heartbeat detection: evidence that somatosensory mechanoreceptors transduce heartbeat sensations. (submitted)

  
  

  Knapp-Kline, K., & Kline, J.P. (2001) Heart rate, heart rate variability, and heartbeat detection with the method of constant stimuli: slow and steady wins the race. (submitted)

  
  

  PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:           

  
  

  Kline, J.P., Kendal-Reed, M., Evatt, D.P., Hood, A.F., & Knapp-Kline, K. (2001).  EEG evidence for sensing unperceived odors using precision air dilution olfactometry. Presented at the 41^st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

  
  

  Kline, J. P., Knapp-Kline, K., Schwartz, G. E. R., and Russek, L. G. S. (2000). Anterior asymmetry, defensiveness, and perceptions of parental caring: Implications for physical illness and mental wellness. Psychophysiology, 37, S59

  
  

  Knapp-Kline, K., and Kline, J. P. (2000). Heart rate variability and heart beat detection using the method of constant stimuli: Slow and steady wins the race. Psychophysiology, 37, S59

  
  

  Knapp, K. A., & Brener, J. (1998).  Mechanoreceptors responsible for transducing heartbeat sensations.  Psychophysiology, 35, S51

  
  

  Brener, J., Knapp, K., & Emmerich, D. (1998).  Pacinian and non-pacinian mechanoreceptors involved in detection of cardiac sensations.  Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA

  
  

  Mailloux, J., Knapp, K., Thomas, J., & Brener, J. (1998).  Measuring detection thresholds for vibratory stimuli applied to the chest.  Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA

  
  

  Wiens, S., Mailloux, J., Knapp, K., & Brener, J. (1998).  Heartbeat detection: a short form of the method of constant stimuli.  Tenth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Washington DC

  
  

  Ring, C., Knapp, K., & Brener, J. (1997).  Physiological and psychological determinants of heartbeat perception.  Third European Congress of Psychophysiology, Konstanz, Germany

  
  

  Knapp, K., & Brener, J. (1996).  Can the temporal locations of heartbeat sensations be measured using a simultaneity paradigm?  Psychophysiology, 33, S51

  
  

  Knapp, K., & Brener, J. (1995).  Measuring precision in heartbeat detection and the temporal location of heartbeat sensations.  Psychophysiology, 32, S46

  
  

  Brener, J., Knapp, K., & Ring, C. (1995). The effects of manipulating beliefs about heart rate on the accuracy of heartbeat counting in the Schandry task.  Psychophysiology, 32, S22

  
  

  Brener, J., & Knapp, K. (1994). Influences of general perceptual skills and cardio-specific processes on heartbeat detection. Psychophysiology, 31, S29