Dwight Krehbiel
Professor of Psychology
Education
B.S. in Natural Sciences, Bethel College, 1969
M.S. in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,1975
Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,1978
Areas of specialization include behavioral neuroscience and animal behavior. In recent years my research interests have shifted toward cognitive neuroscience and the psychology of music.
Experience
I have taught at Bethel since 1978. My primary teaching
responsibilities
are in the areas of biological and experimental psychology, applied
statistics,
and scientific computing. Sabbaticals and research interests have taken
me
to France and Mexico where I have collaborated in research on the
physiological
determinants of maternal behavior in sheep and goats. I also serve as
Premedical and
Pre-Health
Professional Adviser at Bethel.
I have been instrumental in securing
several grants to fund
laboratory
equipment
for the Psychology Department and other departments in the sciences at
Bethel.
In 1997 the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a matching grant
for
a computer-based
system for recording and analyzing the EEG and event-related potentials
(ERPs) .
This system has recently been updated
through another grant from the
NSF (2005-2008) and is being used in a number of courses and for
undergraduate
research projects. Here is a link to the project
abstract. This grant also supports the development of
student research groups using event-related potentials and other
physiological measures, especially in the area of emotional responses
to music. A poster regarding this work, available as a pdf here,
was presented at the Conference of Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory
Improvement principal investigators, sponsored by the National
Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
Another recent NSF grant (2001-2003) is
providing
resources
for making experiments
available
online to students, both on campus and at remote sites.
A series of two research grants (2007, 2008), arising from a collaborative project with computer science professor Bill Manaris of the College of Charleston as principal investigator, have provided funds for additional upgrades of our physiological recording system as well as for support of the work of several students studying emotional and physiological responses to music. Links to these project abstracts may be found here and here. A presentation summarizing this work was given at the University of Northern Iowa on July 31, 2009.
In the fall of 2006 I was accepted into the BEN Scholar Program, a program of BiosciEdNet, the biological sciences pathway project of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). As a member of this program I am actively involved in using and promoting the NSDL.
I serve as co-Principal Investigator on a project to provide scholarship and other STEM educational support
to Bethel College students. The first of four cohorts of scholars
arrived in the fall of 2009 under this project, with Dr Jon Piper,
Professor of Biology, as Principal Investigator.
Course pages
Animal
Behavior
Applied
Statistics
Biopsychology
and Health
Cognitive
Psychology
Computers in the
Sciences
General Psychology
Learning and
Memory
Neuropsychology
The
Psychology of Music
Convocation presentation, October 1, 2007
Bethel College Summer Science Institute
Bethel College Science Collaboratory
Council on Undergraduate Research (includes registry for students interested in graduate school)
Contact information
Office: Krehbiel Science Center, Rm 105
(316)-284-5211
krehbiel@bethelks.edu
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