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Geoffrey 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
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.
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