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54
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4509
National Ranking
2502

Overview

Geoffrey F. Miller is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Social Sciences, with particular focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and the History and Philosophy of Science.

The main topics addressed in Miller's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Philosophy and History of Science, Academic integrity and plagiarism, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Communication in Education and Healthcare, and Academic Freedom and Politics.

Recent papers by Miller cover diverse themes and have appeared in several reputable journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda" (2023) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors" (2024) in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates" (2023) in Intelligence
  • "Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification" (2024) in Intelligence
  • "Content meta-analysis of a racial hereditarian research "bibliography" reveals minimal support for Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's model of "scientific racism"" (2024) in Intelligence

Miller frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular coauthors include Connie J. Clark, Komi Frey, Roy F. Baumeister, Stephen J. Ceci, and Wendy M. Williams.

Their publications are often featured in journals such as Intelligence, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Perspectives on Psychological Science, The Quarterly Review of Biology, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

    Geoffrey Miller

  • Designing neural networks using genetic algorithms

    Geoffrey F. Miller;Peter M. Todd;Shailesh U. Hegde

  • Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals.

    Vladas Griskevicius;Joshua M. Tybur;Jill M. Sundie;Robert B. Cialdini

  • The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto

    Geoffrey Miller

  • The evolutionary genetics of personality

    Lars Penke;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: which evolutionary genetic models work best?

    Matthew C. Keller;Geoffrey Miller

  • Evolution of human music through sexual selection.

    Geoffrey Miller

  • Mate choice turns cognitive

    Geoffrey F Miller;Peter M Todd

  • Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap-dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus?

    Geoffrey Miller;Joshua M. Tybur;Brent D. Jordan

  • Sexual selection for moral virtues.

    Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

    Geoffrey Miller

  • Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence.

    Martie G. Haselton;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • How mate choice shaped human nature: A review of sexual selection and human evolution.

    Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Tracking the Red Queen: Measurements of Adaptive Progress in Co-Evolutionary Simulations

    Dave Cliff;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Intelligence tests with higher g-loadings show higher correlations with body symmetry: Evidence for a general fitness factor mediated by developmental stability

    Mark D. Prokosch;Ronald A. Yeo;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study

    H. Clark Barrett;Peter M. Todd;Geoffrey F. Miller;Philip W. Blythe

  • Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in males.

    Gil Greengross;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Sexual selection for indicators of intelligence.

    Geoffrey Miller

  • From pride and prejudice to persuasion : Satisficing in mate search

    Peter M. Todd;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • 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

    Gil Greengross;Geoffrey F. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Joshua M. Tybur
Joshua M. Tybur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Lars Penke
Lars Penke University of Göttingen
Martie G. Haselton
Martie G. Haselton University of California, Los Angeles
Linda S. Gottfredson
Linda S. Gottfredson University of Delaware
Rod A. Martin
Rod A. Martin University of Western Ontario
Steven W. Gangestad
Steven W. Gangestad University of New Mexico
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Mark D. Shriver
Mark D. Shriver Pennsylvania State University

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