Rachel Anderson
Email: rm-anderson@bethel.edu
Job title
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Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
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Dr. Anderson received her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Biology from Hamline University and her Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Iowa. She also completed postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests include how chronic stress and cortisol influence learning, cognition, and decision making. She has recently been conducting research on how stressful experiences can turn adaptive risk taking behaviors into avoidance and anxiety phenotypes.
Started at Bethel
2019
Education
- Hamline University - B.A. in Psychology, Biology, 2012
- University of Iowa - Ph.D. in Psychology, 2018
Biography
Courses taught
Dr. Anderson teaches courses pertaining to behavioral neuroscience (physiological psychology and conditionining and learning) and research (including statistics!). She also teaches neuroscience literature review and neuroscience methods for the neuroscience major.