Contact: Kay Fike Jones
Two psychology textbooks produced by three Mississippi State faculty members are newly released by national publishers.
Psychology department head Stephen B. Klein wrote "Biological Psychology," while professors B. Michael Thorne and J. Martin Giesen are co-authors of "Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences."
Published late last year by Prentice Hall, Klein's 540-page book is designed for courses above the freshman level in psychology, behavioral neuroscience, biological psychology, or psychobiology. Through the use of numerous clinical examples, it offers students with little or no background in the sciences an introduction to the basic concepts of the biology of behavior.
Thorne and Giesen's text is a third edition published by Mayfield Publishing Co. The 439-page book presents sophisticated statistical concepts in simple and logical steps, using examples drawn from psychological research to help ease the anxiety students often feel when first taking a statistics course.
Klein holds a bachelor's degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a master's degree and doctorate from Rutgers.
Giesen received a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and a master's and doctorate from Kent State; Thorne's three degrees were completed at Louisiana State University.