Professor and Head, Psychology
E-mail address: Sbk1@Ra.Msstate.Edu
Website: http://www.psychology.msstate.edu/faculty/facultybios/klein.php
Stephen B. Klein is professor and head of the psychology department at Mississippi State University. He received a B.S. degree in psychology in 1968 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. degree in psychology in 1971 from Rutgers University. Professor Klein taught at Old Dominion University for twelve years and at Fort Hays State University for seven years prior to coming to Mississippi State University in 1990. He has written numerous articles for psychological journals in the area of the biological basis of learning and memory and is the author of Motivation: Biosocial Approaches, published by McGraw-Hill in 1982 and Learning: Principles and Applications, published by McGraw-Hill in 1987, 1991, 1996, and 2001. Dr. Klein coauthored Biological Psychology, published by Worth in 2007, coedited the two-volume text Contemporary Learning Theories, published by Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates in 1989, and coedited Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories, published by Erlbaum in 2001.
His family includes his wife, Marie, and five children, Dora, David, Jason, Katherine, and William. In his spare time, he enjoys sports, most passionately baseball, and science fiction, especially Star Trek and Star Wars.
