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CURRICULUM VITÆ
Geoffrey F. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychology, Logan Hall 160, MSC03 2220
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1161, USA
(505) 277-1967 (office voice/fax)
[email protected]
http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/lg_gmiller.html
BACKGROUND
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, University of New Mexico, 8/2001 –
present.
Research Associate, Darwin@LSE Group, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and
Social Sciences (CPNSS), London School of Economics, 1/2001 – 8/2001.
Visiting Associate Professor, Evolutionary Psychology of Media Group, Speech and
Communication Studies Program, U.C.L.A., October 2000 to December 2000.
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE),
University College London, 9/1996 – 9/2000.
Research Scientist (Wissenschaftler Mitarbeiter IIa), Center for Adaptive Behavior and
Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany.
9/1995 – 8/1996.
Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Nottingham, England, 1/1995 – 8/1995.
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group, School of
Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, England, 10/1992 –
12/1994.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Stanford University, California, 1993. Thesis: Evolution of
the human brain through runaway sexual selection. Advisor: Roger N. Shepard.
Supported by NSF Graduate Fellowship.
B.A., Biology-Psychology (Dual Major, Honors in Psychology), Columbia University, New
York, 1987. Thesis: Cognitive mechanisms of metaphor comprehension.
Advisor: Barbara A. Dosher. Supported by John Jay Scholarship (full merit
scholarship).
RESEARCH
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The evolutionary psychology of human intelligence, personality, sexuality, mate
choice, person perception, social cognition, psychopathology, and consumer behavior.
Integrating the study of species-typical mental adaptations from evolutionary psychology
with the study of individual differences from psychometrics, behavior genetics,
personality psychology, psychopathology, and person perception research. Studying the
adaptive fit between social judgment adaptations and the cues, traits, and trait
covariances that constitute human phenotypic variation. Analyzing human mental traits
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as fitness indicators (costly, reliable signals of underlying phenotypic traits and genetic
quality). Dimensional models of individual differences that integrate intelligence,
personality, mental health, physical health, and socio-sexual attractiveness measures.
Identifying fitness indicators through analyzing ovulatory cycle shifts in women’s
preferences for ‘good genes’ traits during the high-fertility phase of the cycle versus
‘good parenting’ traits during non-fertile phases of the cycle. Economic applications of
evolutionary psychology to understand product design, consumer behavior, marketing,
advertising, and branding. Clinical applications of fitness indicator theory to understand
the evolutionary genetics, phenotypic symptoms, and demographics of schizophrenia,
personality disorders, and sexual dysfunctions. Side interests in judgment and decisionmaking, strategic behavior, adaptive unpredictability, evolutionary game theory,
experimental economics, Darwinian aesthetics, animate motion perception, genetic
algorithms, evolutionary simulation models, and evolutionary behavior genetics and
neurogenetics.
RESEARCH HONORS AND AWARDS
UNM Dean’s Summer Research Award, 2007, with Elizabeth Yeater, $20,000, for a
project ‘Participation in Trauma and Sex Research: Are Participants Really
Harmed?’
Fulbright Distinguished International Visitor grant from the Royal Society of New
Zealand, to attend meetings in Wellington and Christchurch, November 2002.
Vivus Essay Prize (5,000 pounds) from Prospect magazine, December 1998.
National Science Foundation NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1993-1994
National Science Foundation Grant for Short- and Medium-Term Visits to Foreign
Centers of Excellence (aka “International Research Fellow Awards”), 1992-1993
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1987-1990
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Miller, G. F. (2000). The mating mind: How sexual choice shaped the evolution of
human nature. [514 pages]
Editions:
 U.S./Canada hardback: Doubleday (New York) (2000),
 U.S./Canada paperback: Anchor (New York) (2001);
 U.K./Commonwealth hardback: Heinemann (London) (2000);
 U.K./Commonwealth paperback: Vintage (London) (2001);
 Portugese (A Mente Seletiva: Como a escolha sexual influenciou a
evolução da natureza humana): Campus (Rio de Janeiro) (2000);
 Dutch (De parende geest. Seksuele selectie en de evolutie van het
bewustzijn): Uitgeverij/Contact (Amsterdam) (2001);
 German (Die sexuelle Evolution: Partnerwahl und die Entstehung des
Geistes): Spektrum Verlag (Berlin) (2001);
 Italian (Uomini, donne e code di pavone): Einaudi (Rome) (2002);
 Japanese: Iwanami Shoten (Tokyo) (2002);
 Polish (Umysł w Zalotach: Jak wybory seksualne kształtowałty naturę
człowieka): REBIS Publishing (Warsaw) (2005);
 Croatian (Razum i razmnožavanje: Kako je izbor seksualnih partnera
obligovao ljudsku narav): Algoritam Publishing (Zagreb) (2006);
 Korean: Sosoh Publishing (Seoul) (2006);
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Finnish: Art House (Helsinki) (in press);
Chinese: CITIC Publishing (Beijing) (in translation);
Hungarian: Typotex Publishing (Budapest) (in translation).
Geher, G., & Miller, G. F. (Eds.). (2007). Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the
mind’s reproductive system. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [451 pages]
Miller, G. F. (first full draft sent to publishers 9/27, 2007; under revision for 2008
publication). Faking fitness: The evolutionary origins of consumer behavior.
U.S./Canada contract: Viking; U.K./Commonwealth contract: Heinemann; Dutch
contract: Uitgeverij/Contact.
Journal Papers (26 published, 4 in press, 1 submitted, 1 under revision)
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.
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.
Todd, P. M., & Miller. G. F. (1997). How cognition shapes cognitive evolution. IEEE
Expert: Intelligent Systems and their applications, 12(4), 7-9.
Husbands, P., Harvey, I., Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1997). Artificial evolution: A new path
for artificial intelligence? Brain and Cognition, 34(1),130-159.
Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1998). Mate choice turns cognitive. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 2(5), 190-198.
Miller, G. F. (2001). Precis of ‘The mating mind’. Psycoloquy 12(008).
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.008
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, 2(1), 20-25.
Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2004). Schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually
selected fitness indicator. Schizophrenia Research, 70(1), 101-109.
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(2), 203-213.
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.
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.
Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Visualizing coevolution with CIAO plots. Artificial Life,
12(2), 199-202.
Miller, G. F. (2006). The Asian future of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary
Psychology, 4, 107-119.
Miller, G. F. (2006). Asian creativity: A response to Satoshi Kanazawa. Evolutionary
Psychology, 4, 129-137.
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]
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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]
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.
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.
Miller, G. F. (2007). Sexual selection for moral virtues. Quarterly Review of Biology,
82(2), 97-125.
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].
Miller, G. F., & Tal, I. (2007). Schizotypy versus intelligence and openness as predictors
of creativity. Schizophrenia Research, 93(1-3), 317-324.
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.
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, 93(1), 85102.
Penke, L., Denissen, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of
personality [target article]. European J. of Personality, 21(5), 549-587.
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.
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.
Miller, G. F., Tybur, J., & Jordan, B. (in press). Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by
lap-dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus? Evolution and Human
Behavior.
Tybur, J. M., Miller, G. F., & Gangestad, S. W. (in press). Testing the controversy: An
empirical examination of adaptationists’ attitudes towards politics and science.
Human Nature, 18(4).
Hooper, P., & Miller, G. F. (in press). Mutual mate choice can drive ornament evolution
even under perfect monogamy. Adaptive Behavior.
Andrews, P. W., Gangestad, S. W., Miller, G. F., Haselton, M., Thornhill, R., & Neale, M.
C. (in press). Sex differences in detecting sexual infidelity: Results of a new
maximum likelihood method for analyzing the sensitivity of sex differences to
underreporting. Human Nature
Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (revision submitted to Human Nature). Autism as
the low-fitness extreme of a parentally selected fitness indicator.
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Sefcek, J., Miller, G. F., & Figueredo, A. J. (under revision). Development and validation
of an 18-item medium form of the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices
(RAPM-18).
Journal Commentaries, Abstracts, and Letters (6)
Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1991). Let evolution take care of its own. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 14(1): 101-102.
Miller, G. F. (1991). Two dynamic criteria for validating claims of optimality. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 14(2): 228-229.
Freyd, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (1992). Creature motion. Bulletin of the Psychonomic
Society, 30(6), 470.
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.
Miller, G. F. (2000). How to keep our meta-theories adaptive: Beyond Cosmides,
Tooby, and Lakatos. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 42-46.
Miller, G. F. (2006). Debating sexual selection and mating strategies. Science,
312(5774), 693. [letter re. Roughgarten et al., 2006]
Books Chapters and Conference Proceedings Papers (35 published, 4 in press)
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.
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.
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: SpringerVerlag.
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. (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.
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:
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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: SpringerVerlag.
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 (PerAc94), pp. 100-121. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1995). Tracking the Red Queen: Methods for measuring coevolutionary 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. (ECAL95), pp. 200-218. Berlin: SpringerVerlag.
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.
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: Proc. Fourth International Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
(pp. 13-22). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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: Proc. Fourth International Conf. on
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 506-515. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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. (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.
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.
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.
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.
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. New York: John Wiley, pp. 260-275.
Miller, G. F. (2002). How did language evolve? In H. Swain (Ed.), Big questions in
science, pp. 79-90. London: Jonathan Cape.
Miller, G. F. (2002). The science of subtlety. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The next fifty years,
pp. 85-92. New York: Vintage.
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, pp. 65-79. Wellington, NZ: Royal Society of New Zealand,
Miscellaneous series 63.
Miller, G. F. (2007). Brain evolution. In S. W. Gangestad & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), The
evolution of human mind: Fundamental questions and controversies (pp. 287293). NY: Guilford Press.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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influence our mating behavior. For M. Knauth (Ed.), Handbook of the evolution
of human sexuality, pp. 125-182. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press.
Miller, G. F. (in press for Aug. 2007). Sexual selection. For R. Baumeister & K. Vohs
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Miller, G. F. (in press for Oct. 2007). Magnaminity, fidelity, and other sexually-selected
virtues. For W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (Vol. 1): The
evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Miller, G. F. (in press for Nov. 2007). A secular humanist death. For J. Brockman (Ed.),
What are you optimistic about? London: Free Press.
Nijhawan, R., Watanabe, K., Suganuma, M., Miller, G. F., & Freyd, J. (in press for mid2008). Common processes in representational momentum and the flash-lag
effect. In R. Nijhawan & B. Khurana (Eds.), Problems of space and time in
perception and action. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.
Book Reviews (8)
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.
Miller, G. F. (1997). Games real people play (Review of Brian Skyrms’ Evolution of the
social contract). Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 29.
Miller, G. F. (1998). Review of "The handicap principle" by Amotz Zahavi. Evolution and
Human Behavior, 19(5), 343-347.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Technical Reports (4)
Miller, G. F., & Freyd, J. J. (1993). Dynamic mental representations of animate motion:
The interplay among evolutionary, cognitive, and behavioral dynamics. Cognitive
Science Research Paper CSRP-290, University of Sussex, U.K.
Freyd, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (1993). Creature motion. Institute of Cognitive and Decision
Sciences, University of Oregon, Technical Report No. 93-3.
Miller, G. F. & Cliff, D. (1994). Co-evolution of pursuit and evasion: Biological and gametheoretic foundations. Cognitive Science Research Paper CSRP-311, University
of Sussex.
Miller, G. F. (1995). Artificial life as theoretical biology: How to do real science with
computer simulation. Cognitive Science Research Paper CSRP-378, University
of Sussex, U.K.
Popular Publications (10)
Miller, G. F. (1996). Political peacocks. Demos Quarterly, 10 (Special issue on
evolutionary psychology), pp. 9-11.
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Miller, G. F., & Arden, R. (1997). Natural born genius? (30-page booklet published by
Channel 4 Television to accompany an “Equinox” documentary on Robert
Plomin’s discovery of the first gene associated with human intelligence.)
Miller, G. F. (1998). Looking to be entertained: Three strange things that evolution did
to our minds. Commentary, Times Literary Supplement, October 16, pp. 14-15.
Miller, G. F. (1999). Waste is good. (Winner, Vivus Essay Prize competition). Prospect,
Feb., pp. 18-23.
Miller, G. F. (2000). Social policy implications of the new happiness research. Edge
essay, June. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/contributions.html#miller
Miller, G. F. (2001). Three Victorian questions about potential sexual partners. Edge
essay. http://www.edge.org/documents/questions/q2001p.html#miller
Miller, G. F. (2004). Consciousness as a corporate pep rally. Edge essay, February.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge144.html#miller
Miller, G. F. (2006). Why we haven’t met any aliens. Seed magazine, April.
Miller, G. F. (2007). Why I’m optimistic about death. Edge essay, January.
http://edge.org/q2007/q07_4.html#miller
Miller, G. F. (in press). Products with personalities. icon magazine (UK).
TEACHING
TEACHING HONORS AND AWARDS
Nominated by Department Head Ron Yeo for Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award,
University of New Mexico, Spring 2006 and 2007.
TEACHING INTERESTS
 Undergraduate lecture courses: evolutionary psychology, human sexuality, social
psychology
 Graduate seminars: mate choice research, human emotions, evolutionary social
psychology, social interaction and behavioural game theory, evolutionary
psychopathology, behavior genetics, evolutionary consumer psychology, styles
of scientific debate, personality traits and personality disorders, intelligence and
creativity.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate students and post-docs mentored as primary advisor:
Paul Andrews, post-doc, UNM Psychology. Projects on social cognition, emotional pain,
depression, and parasuicide, 2002-2003.
Laura Dane, Ph.D. student, UNM Psychology. Projects on physical hormone markers
(face & hands) as predictors of sexual jealousy, mating strategy, mate
preferences, and mental rotation performance, 2002-.
Chris Jenkins, Ph.D. student, UNM Psychology. Projects on adaptive functions of
female orgasm, using video analysis reports to teach evolutionary psychology,
rhythm entrainment ability as a fitness indicator. 2003-.
Josh Tybur, Ph.D. student, UNM Psychology. Projects on political beliefs of
adaptationists, aversion to bodily penetration as an anti-contagion adaptation,
cycle effects on mate choice trade-offs, and kissing as oral health assessment.
2004-.
Ilanit Tal, Ph.D. student, UNM Psychology. Projects on mate choice and incest
avoidance through MHC olfactory cues, coefficients of genetic variation in
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vocabulary size, women’s accuracy of intelligence and personality assessment
given photographs of men’s faces. 2004-. Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Anne Caldwell, Ph.D. student, UNM Psychology. Projects on adolescent female
depression among Tsimane tribal people in Bolivia, and the evolutionary
psychology of exercise and diet, 2007-.
Graduate students mentored as co-advisor or collaborator:
Yann Klimentidis, Ph.D. student, UNM Anthropology. Co-advisor on dissertation on
perceptual cues of genetic relatedness and ethnic ancestry, 2002-.
Michael Church, Ph.D. student, UNM Anthropology. Co-advisor on dissertation on
Renaissance Italian palaces as forms of conspicuous consumption, 2006-.
Gil Greengross, Ph.D. student, UNM Anthropology. Co-advisor on dissertation on
humor and mate choice.
Paul Hooper, Ph.D. student, UNM Anthropology. Project on computer simulations of
costly fitness indicators evolving under mutual monogamous mate choice.
Jon Sefcek, Ph.D. student, U. Arizona Psychology. Projects on validating a new
medium-form 18-item version of Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices, and
life history strategy in relation to individual differences in intelligence, personality,
and mating, 2003Undergraduate research supervised
Brent Jordan (2004-present): undergraduate thesis on cycle effects on tip earnings in
night-clubs by female staff members; mentor in McNair/ROP program.
Paul Swegel (2004-2005): undergraduate thesis on mate choice, creativity, and
schizotypy.
Dinah Caruthers (2001-2002): undergraduate thesis on ovulatory cycle effects on
women’s preferences for male sense of humor.
In addition, about 30 undergraduates have take research credit hours with me since
2001.
Courses taught or prepared:
(Note: course syllabi are available at http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/lg_gmiller.html
and at http://www.hbes.com/HBES/syllabi.htm#COURSE%20SYLLABI )
Undergraduate lecture courses:
Evolution, Brain, and Behavior (70-100 students), U.N.M., Fall 2003, Spring 2004,
Spring 2006, Spring 2007.
Psychology of Human Sexuality (160 students), U.N.M., Spring 2005, Fall 2007.
Social Psychology (100-120 students), U.N.M., Fall 2002 & Spring 2003.
Marketing, Advertising, and Human Nature (80 students), U.C.L.A., Fall 2000.
Animal Communication (30 students), U.C.L.A., Fall 2000.
Human Behavioral Ecology (80 students), University College London, Spring 1998.
Social Psychology (90 students), University of Nottingham, Spring 1995.
Psychology Research Methods (20 students), University of Nottingham, Spring 1995.
Evolution and Cognition (10 students), Stanford University, Fall 1990.
Graduate seminars:
Intelligence and Creativity, Fall 2007.
Personality Traits and Personality Disorders, Spring 2007.
Styles of Scientific Argument, Fall 2006.
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Human Emotions, U.N.M., Spring 2003 & Spring 2006.
Social Interaction, U.N.M., Spring 2005.
Behavior Genetics, U.N.M., Fall 2004.
Evolution, Psychopathology, and Health, U.N.M., Fall 2003.
Mate Choice Research, U.N.M., Autumn 2002.
Social Psychology and Evolution, U.N.M. Spring 2002.
Preferences and Products, U.N.M., Autumn 2001.
SERVICE
REVIEWING
On the editorial boards of:
 Evolutionary Psychology journal, 2006 – present.
 Intelligence journal, 2007 – present.
 Human Nature journal, 2003 – 2006.
Ad hoc reviewer for Adaptive Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biology
Letters, BioSystems, British J. Social Psychology, Evolution and Human
Behavior, Human Nature, J. Affective Disorders, J. Personality and Social
Psychology, J. Economic Behavior and Organization, J. of Marketing, J. of
Sports Sciences, J. Theoretical Biology, J. of Trauma and Dissociation,
Personality and Individual Differences, Proc. Royal Society of London B,
Psychological Review, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Theory in Psychology.
Reviewed book proposals for Oxford U. Press, Cambridge U. Press, MIT Press, etc.
Program committee, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior conferences, 1994 through 1998
COMMITTEE WORK
Current committee work (2007-2008):
 Colloquium Committee (head)
 Admissions Committee (member)
 Evo-Devo Area (member)
Past committee work:
 Colloquium committee (head, 2004-2005)
 Human subjects IRB Committee (member, 2004-2005)
 Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (HEBS) steering committee (member,
2001-2003)
 Vision Committee (member, 2002)
 Mentoring Committee (member, 2002)
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
About 110 professional talks given since 1990, including:
 Master's Seminar, Balliol College, Oxford, England, May 1999
 Talk at Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival, England, May 2000
 Marschack Colloquium, UCLA, Los Angeles, October 2000
 British Academy, Keynote speaker, London, October 2000
 Royal Institution, Friday Evening Discourse Series, London, March 2001
 Invited public lecture, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, November 2002
 Invited address, American Psychological Association, Toronto, August 2003
 Invited discussion with musician David Byrne, Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Boston, for Oct. 2007
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Talk venues included:
 Austria (Salzburg),
 Canada (Hamilton, Toronto),
 England (Brighton, Cambridge, Hay-on-Wye, Leeds, Liverpool, London,
Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Royal Institution, Sussex, Windsor),
 France (Paris),
 Germany (Berlin, Bonn, Dortmund, Eichstätt, Munich, St. Augustine),
 Italy (Fiesole),
 Netherlands (Amsterdam),
 New Zealand (Christchurch, Wellington),
 Scotland (Edinburgh, St. Andrews),
 U.S. (Albuquerque, Amherst, Ann Arbor, Austin, Baltimore, Binghampton,
Cambridge, Chicago, Dartmouth, Davis, Eugene, Honolulu, Lincoln, Los
Angeles, Madison, Monterey, New York, Pasadena, Philadelphia, Richmond,
San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Fe, Squaw Valley, Tucson)
MEETINGS INITIATED AND ORGANIZED
Novartis Foundation Symposium on “The nature of intelligence: Reconciling behaviour
genetics and evolutionary psychology”, London, December 1999.
Workshop on “Signs of quality: The handicap principle in biology, economics, and
culture”, London Zoological Society, December 1999.
Symposium “How evolution selects between multiple equilibria: The crucial new ideas
from evolutionary game theory” at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society
annual conference, U.C. Davis, California, June 1998
Conference “The evolution of utilities and utility functions: Biological foundations of
economics” for ELSE, December 1997. Attracted 15 international speakers and
over 100 participants for this two-day event.
Two symposia for the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, April 1997, titled
“Evolution, rationality, and social games”, and “Sex, kids, and death threats: The
evolutionary psychology of domain-specific decision-making”.
Workshop on “Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life” at the Fourth International
Conference on Genetic Algorithms, U.C. San Diego, July, 1991.
CONSULTING WORK
Procter & Gamble, 2007-.
Coca-Cola, 2006.
David DeAngelo Communications, 2005.
Vulcan, Inc., 2002.
Sainsbury’s UK, 1998.
MEDIA OUTREACH
Extensive international media experience in popular science, through print, radio, and
TV. Highlights: research covered by Nature, Science, New Scientist, New York
Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Economist, Der Spiegel; featured
contributor in over a dozen TV documentaries or interviews for CNN, PBS,
Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, BBC,
Channel 4 (UK), Dutch TV, and Japanese TV
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Invited participant, Evolution and Mass Media study group, U.C.L.A., Autumn 2000.
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External examiner for PhD thesis by Dylan Evans in philosophy of science, London
School of Economics, August 2000.
Coordinated ELSE’s experiments in summer-autumn 1998, to test the auction protocol
for the Third-Generation Radio Spectrum Auctions, which raised over 22 billion
pounds in revenue for the British government in spring 2000.
Selection committee for the Goldsmith Research Fellowshop in Evolutionary Psychology
and the Emotions, London School of Economics, spring 1998.
Associate, Centre for Ecology and Evolution, University College London, September
1996 – August 2000.
Invited participant, Epistemology Research Group (London), organized by Professor
John Ziman, 1994 through 1996.
Invited participant, Work in Progress Group, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural
and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, 1995 to 2000.
Invited participant, Darwin Seminars, London School of Economics, 1994 to present.
Helped organize the new Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition with Professor
Gerd Gigerenzer and the other senior research staff at the Max Planck Institute
for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany, 1995-1996. Contributed to
prioritizing research directions, organizing meetings, hiring staff, etc.
Participant, Connectionist Models Summer School, U.C. San Diego, 1990
Participant, McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience,
Dartmouth College, 1990
Graduate Admissions Committee, Stanford Psychology Department, 1990.
Student Associate, Evolutionary Psychology Study Group, Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1989-1990.
Honors Research Assistant, Columbia University Psychology Department, 1985-1987.
Helped design, run, analyze, and write up experiments on perception of
orientation (with Len Matin), behavioral effects of tricyclic antidepressants on
cocaine-dependent rats (with Nori Geary), judgments of likelihood evidence (with
David Krantz), and metaphor comprehension (undergraduate psychology honors
thesis with Barbara Dosher).
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (held in various years, 1992-present)
American Marketing Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Animal Behavior Society
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason
Society for Consumer Psychology
Society for Judgment and Decision-Making
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for the Study of Evolution
REFERENCES
David Buss, Professor, Psychology Department
University of Texas, 1 University Station A8000, Austin, Texas 78712-0187 USA
(512) 475-8489, [email protected]
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Leda Cosmides, Professor, Psychology Department
U. C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660 USA
(805) 893-7107, [email protected]
Richard Dawkins, Professor, Zoology Department
Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, U.K.
(011) (44) 1865 271234 (dep’t), [email protected]
Ian Deary, Professor, Psychology Department
University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland
(011) 44 131 650 3452, [email protected]
Gerd Gigerenzer, Professor and Director, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
(011) (49) (30) 82406-460, [email protected]
Nicholas Humphrey, School Professor
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK
(011) 44 20 7955 6826, [email protected]
Nick Martin, Senior Principal Research Fellow
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
300 Herston Road, Queensland Q 4029, Australia
(011) 61 7 3362 0278, [email protected]
Randolph Nesse, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Department of Psychology, 1012 East Hall, 530 Church Street
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
(734) 764-6593, [email protected]
Steven Pinker, Professor, Psychology Department
Harvard University, William James Hall 970, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-0831, [email protected]
Robert Plomin, Professor
Institute of Psychiatry, 111 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, U.K.
(011) (44) 207 848 0894 (office), [email protected]
Dean Keith Simonton, Distinguished Professor
Psychology Department, 102D Young Hall
University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-1677, [email protected]
Peter Todd, Professor, Psychology, Informatics, and Cognitive Science
Indiana University, 901 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-3912 USA
(812) 856-1839, [email protected]
Ron Yeo, Professor and Head of Department, Psychology
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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(505) 277-4121, [email protected]
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