About the Author

Stephen B. Klein is professor and head of the psychology department at Mississippi State University. He received a B.S. in psychology in 1968 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. 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, Learning: Principles and Applications, published by McGraw-Hill in 1987, 1991, and 1996; and Biological Psychology, published by Prentice-Hall in 2000. Dr. Klein coedited the two-volume text Contemporary Learning Theories in 1989 and Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories in 2001, both published by Lawrence Erlbaum.

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