Christopher L Klein
Professor, Psychology
Bio
I am interested in the automatic processes of learning and attention, as well as the neurological bases of those processes. Additionally, I am specifically interested in how these processes may function differently in persons with Autism, and how those differences may be related to symptoms of the disorder. I also research topics in the social-cognitive domain, specifically related to how people automatically process social information, and how that affects our decision-making and behavior. Lastly, I am interested in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), specifically how the things we do in the classroom in the Psychology domain affect how students use the information, such as myth endorsement or viewing Psychology as a science.
Areas of Specialization: Cognitive Neuroscience, Autism, SoTL
Notable Courses Taught:
PY 201: General Psychology
PY 201H: Honors General Psychology
PY 222: Introduction to the Psychology Major
PY 361: Physiological Psychology
PY 375: Psychological Statistics
PY 385: Cognitive Psychology
PY 435: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
PY 490: Developmental Disabilities
PY 490: Psychology of Sport
PY 498: Cognitive Neuroscience
Courses Taught
- FS 601 - Applied Statistics
- UNA 502 - Preparing Future Faculty III
- PY 499 - Psychology Directed Research
- PY 498 - Psychology Directed Study
- PY 490 - Topics in Psychology
- PY 435 - Industrial & Org Psych
- UNA 402 - Preparing Future Faculty III
- PY 385 - Cognitive Psychology
- PY 375 - Psychological Statistics
- PY 361 - Physiological Psychology
- PY 222 - Intro to Psychology Major
- PY 201H - Honors General Psychology
- PY 201 - General Psychology
Education
- Psychology (PhD)
The University of Alabama - Psychology (MA)
The University of Alabama - Psychology (BA)
The University of Alabama
Selected Intellectual Contributions
- Mark Sibicky, Christopher L. Klein, and Emily Embrescia. 2020. Psychological Misconceptions and Their Relation to Students’ Lay Beliefs of Mind. Teaching of Psychology
- Christopher L. Klein and Emily Dial. 2020. Visual Gaze Patterns during Implicit Learning in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder. International Journal of Autism & Related Disabilities
- Rajesh K. Kana, Emma B. Sartin, Carl Stevens, Hrishikesh D. Deshpande, Christopher L. Klein, Mark R. Klinger, and Laura Grofer Klinger. 2017. Neural Networks Underlying Language and Social Cognition during Self-Other Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Neuropsychologia
- Brittany G. Travers, Rajesh K. Kana, Laura G. Klinger, Christopher L. Klein, and Mark R. Klinger. 2015. Motor Learning in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Activation in Superior Parietal Lobule Related to Learning and Repetitive Behaviors. Autism Research
- Rajesh Kana, Elizabeth Blum, Christopher L. Klein, Laura Klinger, Christopher L. Klein, Marcel Adam Just, and Kevin Archer Pelphrey. 2013. Neural Representations of Self Versus Other: Lessons from Autism. Development & Brain Systems in Autism.
- R.K. Kana, E.R. Blum, Christopher L. Klein, L.G. Klinger, and M.R. Klinger. 2009. Accessing Other Minds: The Role of Temporo-Parietal Junction and its Dysfunction in Autism.