Kristen Knowles

I began my undergraduate education at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, where I studied Mass Media and Broadcasting.  I then transferred to Belmont University in Nashville, TN, where I studied Music Business and Product Development.  I received my business degree from Belmont in 2005, acquiring a good amount of sound engineering and recording knowledge along the way.

I first developed an interest in evolutionary science during my post-undergraduate career in Atlanta, GA.  I decided to make a big change and leave the business world, relocating to the UK in 2009 to undertake an MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Liverpool, where my research (supervised by Dr. John Lycett) focused on cooperation and the voice - a subject which I am continuing to explore with great interest.  I have also worked as a research assistant with Dr. Craig Roberts.  I began my PhD studies at Stirling in the Autumn of 2010, under the principal supervision of Dr. Anthony Little.

My main research focuses on the human voice and pro-social behaviour.  I am also interested in how attractiveness and dominance attributions modulate perceptions of pro-social qualities (i.e. cooperation and trustworthiness), integrating facial and vocal domains, vocal/auditory cognition, and testosterone heritability and expression in the voice and face.

PSY912: Introductory Psychology II

PSY9AC: Cognition

PSY9A3: Social Communication