Geoffrey Miller


Miller

Associate Professor
Email: gfmiller@unm.edu
Office: Logan 160
Office hours: Wednesdays 10:30 am to noon
Phone: (505) 277-1967 (office voice/fax)

Degree Received
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests
Evolutionary social psychology is my main focus, especially the study of human mental adaptations for judgment, decision-making, strategic behavior, and communication in social and sexual domains. This includes work on mutual mate choice and sexual selection theory, analysis of human mental traits as fitness indicators (reliable cues of underlying phenotypic traits and genetic quality), analysis of social attribution heuristics as adapted to the statistical structure of individual differences (including genetic and phenotypic covariances), and analysis of animate motion perception mechanisms as adapted to typical patterns of intentional movement.

Also, consumer behavior: applications of evolutionary psychology in product design and aesthetics, marketing, advertising, and branding (book in progress on this topic); use of genetic algorithms for interactive online product design. Clinical interests: Applications of fitness indicator theory to understand symptoms, demographics, and behavior genetics of schizophrenia and mood disorders. Other interests: origins of human preferences, aesthetics, and utility functions; human strategic behavior, game theory, and experimental economics; ovulatory effects on female mate preferences; the intellectual legacies of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Veblen.


Publications

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Books

spentMiller, G. F., (2009). Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior. Viking Adult (New York); 384 pages.
Spent Endnotes
Spent References

Geher, G., & Miller, G. F. (Eds.). (2007). Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ); 451 pages.
Psychology Today article link

Miller, G. F., (2001) The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. Anchor. 528 pages.


Papers

  • Jung, K., Ruthruff, E., Tybur, J., Gaspelin, N., & Miller, G. (in press for Evolution and Human Behavior).  Perception of facial attractiveness requires some attentional capacity:  Implications for the “automaticity” of psychological adaptations.[PDF]
  • Yeater, E. A., Miller, G., Rinehart, J. K., & Nason, E. (in press for Psychological Science). Trauma and sex surveys meet minimal risk standards: Implications for Institutional Review Boards.[DOCX]
  • Miller, G. F. (2011). Optimal drug use and rational drug policy. Commentary on Muller & Schumannm, Drugs as instruments: A new framework for non-addictive psychoactive drug use.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 318-319.[PDF]
  • Greengross, G., Martin, R. A., & Miller, G. F. (in press for Humor). Childhood experiences of professional comedians: Peer and parent relationships and humor use.[DOCX]
  • Greengross, G., Martin, R. A., & Miller, G. F. (2011).  Personality traits, intelligence, humor styles, and humor production ability of professional stand-up comedians compared to college students. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.[PDF]
  • Zietsch, B. P., Miller, G. F., Bailey, J. M., & Martin, N. G. (2011). Female orgasm rates are largely independent of other traits: Implications for “female orgasmic disorder” and evolutionary theories of orgasm. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 2305-2316.. [PDF]
  • Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (2011). Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in males. Intelligence, 39, 188-192. [PDF]
  • Pierce, A., Miller, G. F., Arden, R., & Gottfredson, L. (2009). Why is intelligence correlated with semen quality? Biochemical pathways common to sperm and neurons, and the evolutionary genetics of general fitness. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2(5), 1-3. [PDF]
  • Klimentidis, Y. C., Miller, G. F., & Shriver, M. D. (2009). Genetic admixture, self-reported ethnicity, self-estimated admixture, and skin pigmentation among Hispanics and Native Americans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 138, 375-383. [PDF]
  • Arden, R., Gottfredson, L., Miller, G. F., & Pierce. A. (2009). Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated. Intelligence, 37, 277-282. [PDF]
  • Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (2009). The Big Five personality traits of professional comedians compared to amateur comedians, comedy writers, and college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 79-83. [PDF]
  • Arden, R., Gottfredson, L., & Miller, G. F. (2009). Does a fitness factor contribute to the association between intelligence and health outcomes? Evidence from medical abnormality counts among 3,654 US Veterans. Intelligence, 37, 581-591.  [PDF]
  • Andrews, P. W., Gangestad, S. W., Miller, G. F., Haselton, M. G., Thornhill, R., & Neale, M. C. (2008). Sex differences in detecting sexual infidelity: Results of a maximum likelihood method for analyzing the sensitivity of sex differences to underreporting. Human Nature, 19, 347-373. [PDF]
  • Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2008). Autism as the low-fitness extreme of a parentally selected fitness indicator. Human Nature, 19, 389-413. [PDF]
  • Hooper, P., & Miller, G. F. (2008). Mutual mate choice can drive ornament evolution even under perfect monogamy. Adaptive Behavior, 16(1), 53-70. [PDF]
  • Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (2008). Dissing oneself versus dissing rivals: Effects of status, personality, and sex on the short-term and long-term attractiveness of self-deprecating and other-deprecating humor. Evolutionary Psychology, 6(3), 393-408. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F., Tybur, J., & Jordan, B. (2007). Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap-dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus? Evolution and Human Behavior. [PDF]
  • Tybur, J. M., Miller, G. F., & Gangestad, S. W. (2007). Testing the controversy: An empirical examination of adaptationists' attitudes towards politics and science. Human Nature, 18(4). [PDF]
  • Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., Sundie, J. M., Cialdini, R. B., Miller, G. F., & Kenrick, D. T. (2007). Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit costly displays. J. Personality and Social Psychology. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). Reconciling evolutionary psychology and ecological psychology: How to perceive fitness affordances. Acta Psycholigica Sinica, 39(3), 546-555. [Special issue on evolutionary psychology]. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F., & Tal, I. (2007). Schizotypy versus intelligence and openness as predictors of creativity. Schizophrenia Research, 93(1-3), 317-324. [PDF]
  • Penke, L., Denissen, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality [target article]. European J. of Personality, 21(5), 549-587. [PDF]
  • Penke, L., Denissen, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (2007). Evolution, genes, and interdisciplinary personality research [response to 22 commentaries] European J. of Personality, 21(5), 639-665. [PDF]
  • Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2007). Age at onset of schizophrenia: Evidence of a latitudinal gradient. Schizophrenia Research, 94(1-3), 58-63. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F., & Penke, L. (2007). The evolution of human intelligence and the coefficient of additive genetic variance in human brain size. Intelligence, 35(2), 97-114. [PDF]
  • Andrews, P. W., Aggen, S. H., Miller, G. F., Radi, C., Dencoff, J. E., & Neale, M. C. (2007). The functional design of depression’s influence on attention: A preliminary test of alternative control-process mechanisms. Evolutionary Psychology, 5(3), 584-604. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). Sexual selection for moral virtues. Quarterly Review of Biology, 82(2), 97-125. [PDF]
  • Haselton, M., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence. Human Nature, 17(1), 50-73. [PDF]
  • Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Visualizing coevolution with CIAO plots. Artificial Life, 12(2), 199-202. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2006). The Asian future of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 4: 107-119. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2006). Asian creativity: A response to Satoshi Kanazawa. Evolutionary Psychology, 4: 129-137. [PDF]
  • Keller, M., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Which evolutionary genetic models best explain the persistence of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 385-404. [target article] [PDF]
  • Keller, M., & Miller, G. F. (2006). An evolutionary framework for mental disorders: Integrating adaptationist and evolutionary genetics models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 429-452. [response to 23 commentaries] [PDF]
  • Sefcek, J. A., Brumbach, B. H., Vásquez, G., & Miller, G. F. (2006). The evolutionary psychology of human mate choice: How ecology, genes, fertility, and fashion influence our mating behavior. J. of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 18(2/3), 125-182. [PDF]
  • Prokosch, M., Yeo, R., & Miller, G. F. (2005). Intelligence tests with higher g-loadings show higher correlations with body symmetry: Evidence for a general fitness factor mediated by developmental stability. Intelligence, 33, 203-213. [PDF]
  • Barrett, H. C., Todd, P. M., Miller, G. F., & Blythe, P. (2005). Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(4), 313-331. [PDF]
  • Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2004). Schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually selected fitness indicator. Schizophrenia Research, 70(1), 101-109. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2001). Precis of ‘ 'The mating mind'. Psycholoquy 12(008). (For multiple book review): [HTML]
  • Miller, G. F. (2001). Aesthetic fitness: How sexual selection shaped artistic virtuosity as a fitness indicator and aesthetic preferences as mate choice criteria. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts 1, special issue on Evolution, creativity, and art. [Word]
  • Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1998). Mate choice turns cognitive. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(5), 190-198. [PDF]
  • Husbands, P., Harvey, I., Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1997). Artificial evolution: A new path for artificial intelligence? Brain and Cognition, 34, 130-159.[PDF]
  • Todd, P. M., & Miller. G. F. (1997). How cognition shapes cognitive evolution. IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and their applications, 12(4), 7-9. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F., & Shepard, R. N. (1993). An objective criterion for apparent motion based on phase discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19(1), 48-62. [HTML]
  • Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1993). Parental guidance suggested: How parental imprinting evolves through sexual selection as an adaptive learning mechanism. Adaptive Behavior, 2(1), 5-47. [PDF]

Book Chapters

  • Miller, G. F. (in press). Advice to young Chinese psychologists. In X.T. Wang & Su, Y. J. (Eds.), Thus spake evolutionary psychologists. Peking University Press. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2011).  Foreword.  In A. De Block & P. R. Adriaens (Eds.), Maladapting Minds: Philosophy, psychiatry, and evolutionary theory (pp. v-ix). Oxford U. Press. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2010). Are polygenic mutations and Holocene selective sweeps the only evolutionary-genetic processes left for explaining heritable variation in human psychological traits? For D. M. Buss & P. H. Hawley (Eds.), The evolution of personality and individual differences. NY: Oxford U. Press. [DOC]
  • Nagai, M., Suganuma, M., Nijhawan, R., Freyd, J. J., Miller, G., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Conceptual influence on the flash-lag effect and representational momentum. In R. Nijhawan & B. Khurana (Eds.), Space and time in perception and action (pp. 366-378). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2008). Kindness, fidelity, and other sexually-selected virtues. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (Vol. 1): The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness (pp. 209-243). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2008). Response to comment. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (Vol. 1): The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness (pp. 263-267). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). Brain evolution. In S. W. Gangestad & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), The evolution of human mind: Fundamental questions and controversies (pp. 287-293). New York: Guilford Press. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi paradox. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What is your dangerous idea? (pp. 240-243). New York: Harper Perennial.
  • Geher, G., Miller, G. F., & Murphy, J. (2007). Introduction: The origins and nature of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system, pp. 3-34. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [PDF]
  • Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2007). Mental disorders as catastrophic failures of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system (pp. 193-223). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [PDF]
  • Kaufman, S. B., Kozbelt, A., Bromley, M. L., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The role of creativity and humor in mate selection. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system (pp. 227-262). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). Mating intelligence: Frequently asked questions. In G. Geher & Miller, G. F. (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system (pp. 367-393). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [DOC]
  • Sefcek, J. A., Brumbach, B. H., Vásquez, G., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary psychology of human mate choice: How ecology, genes, fertility, and fashion influence our mating behavior. In M. Knauth (Ed.), Handbook of the evolution of human sexuality (pp. 125-182). Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). Sexual selection. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2007). A secular humanist death. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What are you optimistic about? Today's leading thinkers on why things are good and getting better. New York: Harper Perennial. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2003). Fear of fitness indicators: How to deal with our ideological anxieties about the role of sexual selection in the origins of human culture. In Being human: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand (Miscellaneous series 63) (pp. 65-79). Wellington, NZ: Royal Society of New Zealand. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2002). How did language evolve? In H. Swain (Ed.), Big questions in science (pp. 79-90). London: Jonathan Cape. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2002). The science of subtlety. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The next fifty years (pp. 85-92). New York: Vintage. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Mental traits as fitness indicators: Expanding evolutionary psychology's adaptationism. In D. LeCroy & P. Moller (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human reproductive behavior (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 907) (pp. 62-74). New York: New York Academy of Sciences. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Sexual selection for indicators of intelligence. In G. Bock, J. Goode, & K. Webb (Eds.), The nature of intelligence (Novartis Foundation Symposium 233) (pp. 260-275). New York: John Wiley. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music (pp. 329-360). MIT Press. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Marketing. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The greatest inventions of the last 2,000 years (pp. 121-126). New York: Simon & Schuster. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy. In J. Ziman (Ed.), Technological innovation as an evolutionary process (pp. 203-215). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (1999). Sexual selection for cultural displays. In R. Dunbar, C. Knight, & C. Power (Eds.), The evolution of culture (pp. 71-91). Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh U. Press. [DOC]
  • Blythe, P. W., Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1999). How motion reveals intention: Categorizing social interactions. In G. Gigerenzer & P. Todd. (Eds.), Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 257-285). Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.
  • Todd, P.M., & Miller, G. F. (1999). From Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion: Satisficing in mate search. In G. Gigerenzer & P. Todd. (Eds.), Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 286-308). Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.
  • Miller, G. F. (1998). How mate choice shaped human nature: A review of sexual selection and human evolution. In C. Crawford & D. Krebs (Eds.), Handbook of evolutionary psychology: Ideas, issues, and applications (pp. 87-129). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [DOC]
  • Todd, P. M., and Miller, G. F. (1997). Biodiversity through sexual selection. In C. G. Langton and K. Shimohara (Eds.), Artificial Life V: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 289-299). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (1997). Protean primates: The evolution of adaptive unpredictability in competition and courtship. In A. Whiten & R. W. Byrne (Eds.), Machiavellian intelligence II: Extensions and evaluations (pp. 312-340). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (1997). Mate choice: From sexual cues to cognitive adaptations. In G. Cardew (Ed.), Characterizing human psychological adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium 208) (pp. 71-87). New York: John Wiley. [DOC]
  • Blythe, P., Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1996). Human simulation of adaptive behavior: Interactive studies of pursuit, evasion, courtship, fighting, and play. In P. Maes, M. J. Mataric, J.-A. Meyer, J. Pollack, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 13-22). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]
  • Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1996). Co-evolution of pursuit and evasion II: Simulation methods and results. In P. Maes, M. J. Mataric, J.-A. Meyer, J. Pollack, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 506-515). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]
  • Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1995). Tracking the Red Queen: Methods for measuring co-evolutionary progress in open-ended simulations. In F. Moran, A. Moreno, J. J. Merelo, & P. Cachon (Eds.), Advances in artificial life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 200-218). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1995). The role of mate choice in biocomputation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification. In W. Banzhaf & F. H. Eeckman (Eds.), Evolution and biocomputation: Computational models of evolution (pp. 169-204). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F., & Cliff, D. (1994). Protean behavior in dynamic games: Arguments for the co-evolution of pursuit-evasion tactics in simulated robots. In D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J. A. Meyer, & S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 3: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 411-420). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
  • Miller, G. F. (1994). Exploiting mate choice in evolutionary computation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification. In T. C. Fogarty (Ed.), Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the 1994 Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB) Society Workshop (pp. 65-79). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Husbands, P., Harvey, I., Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1994). The use of genetic algorithms for the development of sensorimotor control systems. In P. Gaussier & J. D. Nicoud (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop from Perception to Action (pp. 100-121). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1993). Evolutionary wanderlust: Sexual selection with directional mate preferences. In J.-A. Meyer, H. L. Roitblat, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 21-30). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books. [PDF]
  • Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1991). Exploring adaptive agency II: Simulating the evolution of associative learning. In J.-A. Meyer & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 306-315). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
  • Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1991). Exploring adaptive agency III: Simulating the evolution of habituation and sensitization. In H.-P. Schwefel & R. Manner (Eds.), Parallel problem solving from nature (pp. 307-313). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1991). On the sympatric origin of species: Mercurial mating in the Quicksilver Model. In R. K. Belew & L. B. Booker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (pp. 547-554). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1990). Exploring adaptive agency I: Theory and methods for simulating the evolution of learning. In D. S. Touretsky, J. L. Elman, T. J. Sejnowski, & G. E. Hinton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1990 Connectionist Models Summer School (pp. 65-80). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Miller, G. F., Todd, P. M., & Hegde, S. U. (1989). Designing neural networks using genetic algorithms. In J. D. Schaffer (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (pp. 379-384). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Journal Commentaries, Abstracts, and Letters

  • Miller, G. F. (2006). Debating sexual selection and mating strategies. Science, 312(5774), 693. [letter re. Roughgarten et al., 2006] [PDF]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). How to keep our meta-theories adaptive: Beyond Cosmides, Tooby, and Lakatos. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 42-46. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (1994). Beyond shared fate: Group-selected mechanisms for cooperation and competition in fuzzy, fluid vehicles. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(4), 630-631.
  • Freyd, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (1992). Creature motion. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 30(6), 470.
  • Miller, G. F. (1991). Two dynamic criteria for validating claims of optimality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(2): 228-229.
  • Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1991). Let evolution take care of its own. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(1): 101-102. [PDF]

Book reviews

  • Miller, G. F. (2004). Review of "Descartes' baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human" by Paul Bloom. Seed magazine, September. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2001). The dark continent of sexual strategies. (Review of "The myth of monogamy" by David Barash and Judith Eve Lipton). Cerebrum, 3(3), 113-120. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Alas, poor scholarship (Review of Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology, ed. Hilary Rose & Steven Rose). London Evening Standard, July 3. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (2000). Memetic evolution and human culture. (Lead review of "The meme machine" by Susan Blackmore). Quarterly Review of Biology, 75(4), 434-436. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (1998). Review of "The handicap principle" by Amotz Zahavi. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19(5), 343-347. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (1997). Games real people play (Review of Brian Skyrms' Evolution of the social contract). Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 29. [DOC]
  • Miller, G. F. (1994). Review of Meyer, Roitblat, & Wilson (Eds.), "From Animals to Animats 2", Biosystems, 33, 149-152.
  • Miller, G.F., & Todd, P.M. (1994). Review of Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby (Eds.), "The adapted mind", Adaptive Behavior, 3(1), 83-95.

Reviewing

On the editorial boards of the journals:

  • Intelligence, 2007  present.
  • Evolutionary Psychology, 2006  present.
  • Frontier in Evolutionary Psychology, 2010 – present.
  • Human Nature, 2003  2006.

Ad hoc reviewer for 30 other journals, including: Adaptive Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biology Letters, Biological Psychology, BioSystems, Brain, Behavior, and Evolution, British Journal of Social Psychology, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Economics and Human Biology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Experimental Aging Research, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Sports Sciences, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, Personality and Individual Differences, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Review of General Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Theory in Psychology.

Reviewed book proposals for Oxford U. Press, Cambridge U. Press, Columbia U. Press, MIT Press, U. Chicago Press, etc.

Consulting

  • Consulting with Procter & Gamble on consumer psychology, 2007.
  • Consulting with Coca-Cola on consumer psychology, 2006.
  • Consulting for David DeAngelo Communications on human mate choice, 2005.
  • Consulting with Passions and Partners, a London-based business consultancy, on marketing issues, 2004-2005.
  • Consulting with Vulcan Inc., March 2002.
  • Development of an agent-based simulation of consumer decision-making in grocery stores for Sainsbury's (British grocery chain), July 1999 - August 2000.
  • Consultant and conference speaker, Knowledge Group, Logistics Department, Sainsbury's October 1998. 



Ph.D. students:

Current: Chris Jenkins
Former: Laura Dane, Ilanit Tal, Annie Caldwell, Joshua Tybur, Yann Klimentidis, Gil Greengross

If you are interested in applying to my lab group as a Ph.D. student:
I am looking for bright, motivated, conscientious students with very strong GRE scores (above 700), a strong commitment to a research career in evolutionary psychology, good research experience, and solid academic training in psychology, biology, and/or anthropology. Interested students should contact me directly by email.


Course Syllabi:

Psych 342: Evolutionary Psychology [Word]

UCLA Courses (2000)
Animal Communication [Word]
Advertising, Marketing, and Human Nature [Word]



Other academic/science links:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin: [Link]
Darwin at LSE, London: [Link]
Edge: [Link]
Evolution and Human Behavior journal: [Link]
Evolutionary Psychology journal: [Link]
Human Behavior and Evolution Society: [Link]
Human Nature journal: [Link]
Intelligence journal: [Link]
New Scientist magazine: [Link]
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason: [Link]

Other links reflecting my personal interests:
Adbusters: [Link]
Arts & Letters Daily: [Link]
BBC News: [Link]
Chuck Palahniuk: [Link]
Cognitive Liberty: [Link]
Control Arms: [Link]
Humanism: [Link]
Iain Banks: [Link]
IMDB: [Link]
Moloko: [Link]
NAMI: [Link]
NASA: [Link]
Slow Food: [Link]
Tori Amos: [Link]
Yes Men: [Link]