Geoffrey F Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 91708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey F Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey F |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER G F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6026-5372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Do People Maintain Consensual Non-Monogamy? An International Development and Validation of the Multiple Relationships Maintenance Scale
Maintaining multiple intimate relationships entails some risks and complications beyond exclusive pair bonding (i.e., monogamy). Consensual non-monogamy (CNM; e.g., polyamory, swinging, or open relationships) allegedly reduces these risks and complications, but no one has tried to comprehensively document typical CNM risk management practices, nor analyzed the relationship outcomes of those who use these practices. We developed the Multiple Relat…
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors
We identify points of conflict and consensus regarding (a) controversial empirical claims and (b) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship—and scholars—should be treated. In 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews ( n = 41) to generate a quantitative survey ( N = 470) of U.S. psychology professors’ beliefs and values. Professors strongly disagreed on the truth status of 10 candidate taboo conclusions: For each conclusion, some pr…
Development and Validation of an 18-Item Medium Form of the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices
The Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) is a widely used measure of general intelligence ( g), both across settings and cultures. Due to its lengthy 40-min administration time, several researchers have developed short-form scales, yet these forms typically yield a significantly lower reliability. This article describes the creation of an 18-item short form (APM-18) and its validation in three samples of Southwestern U.S. university student…
Do Some Students Need Special Protection From Research on Sex and Trauma? New Evidence for Young Adult Resilience in “Sensitive Topics” Research
Institutional review boards (IRBs) have expressed concerns that certain individuals or groups, such as participants who are younger, ethnic minorities, or who have certain psychological or personality traits, may be particularly distressed when participating in "sensitive topics" research. This study examined the effects of several demographic and individual difference factors (i.e., age, sex, ethnicity, religiosity, Big Five personality traits, …
Perception of facial attractiveness requires some attentional resources: Implications for the “automaticity” of psychological adaptations
The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
By 2025, when most of today’s psychology undergraduates will be in their mid-30s, more than 5 billion people on our planet will be using ultra-broadband, sensor-rich smartphones far beyond the abilities of today’s iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries. Although smartphones were not designed for psychological research, they can collect vast amounts of ecologically valid data, easily and quickly, from large global samples. If participants download th…
Childhood experiences of professional comedians: Peer and parent relationships and humor use
This study examines a commonly held belief, left over from psychoanalytic theories of humor as a coping mechanism, that relationships with parents strongly influence comedians' temperaments and career choices. Thirty one professional stand-up comedians and 400 students completed the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), which concerns recollected parental care and protectiveness, and a new self-report questionnaire that measures popularity and humor…
Die sexuelle Evolution
The relationship between European genetic admixture and body composition among Hispanics and Native Americans
Previous studies have shown a relationship between health-related phenotypes and the degree of African, European, or Native American genetic admixture, indicating that there may be a genetic component to these phenotypes. However, these relationships may be driven to a large extent by the environmental differences that co-vary with admixture differences between and within groups. In this study, we examine the relationship between genetic admixtur…
Genetic admixture, self‐reported ethnicity, self‐estimated admixture, and skin pigmentation among Hispanics and Native Americans
The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self‐identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to the heterogeneity in individual admixture proportions and social environments within these groups. This study examines the relatio…
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
This study explores the adaptive functions and design features of self-and other-deprecating humor. Sixty-four female and 32 male college students participated in a two-part study. In the first part, we examined the relationships among participant demographics, personality traits, and preferences for producing different types of humor. Men report using more other-deprecating humor than women do, and the use of other-deprecating humor decreases wi…
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity: Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting
Autism as the Low-Fitness Extreme of a Parentally Selected Fitness Indicator
Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus?☆
Sexual Selection for Moral Virtues
Moral evolution theories have emphasized kinship, reciprocity, group selection, and equilibrium selection. Yet, moral virtues are also sexually attractive. Darwin suggested that sexual attractiveness may explain many aspects of human morality. This paper updates his argument by integrating recent research on mate choice, person perception, individual differences, costly signaling, and virtue ethics. Many human virtues may have evolved in both sex…
Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals
Conspicuous displays of consumption and benevolence might serve as "costly signals" of desirable mate qualities.If so, they should vary strategically with manipulations of mating-related motives.The authors examined this possibility in 4 experiments.Inducing mating goals in men increased their willingness to spend on conspicuous luxuries but not on basic necessities.In women, mating goals boosted public-but not private-helping.Although mating mot…
Testing the Controversy: An Empirical Examination of Adaptationists’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Science
Australia and an East Asian Community
Australia is not geographically part of East Asia, even though the northwest of Australia is close to the southeast of Asia through proximity to Indonesia. Even so, while Australia is not geographi
Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence
Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study
Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation
In their 1984 article, Priest and Klein show that a simple divergent expectations model of the decision to litigate leads to a plaintiff success rate at trial that approaches 50 percent as the fraction of cases going to trial approaches zero. However, an extensive empirical literature has documented that plaintiffs win far fewer than half of their cases. As Priest and Klein observe, this conflict between the predictions of the model and the empir…
Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals
Conspicuous displays of consumption and benevolence might serve as "costly signals" of desirable mate qualities.If so, they should vary strategically with manipulations of mating-related motives.The authors examined this possibility in 4 experiments.Inducing mating goals in men increased their willingness to spend on conspicuous luxuries but not on basic necessities.In women, mating goals boosted public-but not private-helping.Although mating mot…
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
This study explores the adaptive functions and design features of self-and other-deprecating humor. Sixty-four female and 32 male college students participated in a two-part study. In the first part, we examined the relationships among participant demographics, personality traits, and preferences for producing different types of humor. Men report using more other-deprecating humor than women do, and the use of other-deprecating humor decreases wi…
Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence
Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation
In their 1984 article, Priest and Klein show that a simple divergent expectations model of the decision to litigate leads to a plaintiff success rate at trial that approaches 50 percent as the fraction of cases going to trial approaches zero. However, an extensive empirical literature has documented that plaintiffs win far fewer than half of their cases. As Priest and Klein observe, this conflict between the predictions of the model and the empir…
Genetic admixture, self‐reported ethnicity, self‐estimated admixture, and skin pigmentation among Hispanics and Native Americans
The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self‐identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to the heterogeneity in individual admixture proportions and social environments within these groups. This study examines the relatio…
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity: Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting
Testing the Controversy: An Empirical Examination of Adaptationists’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Science
Do Some Students Need Special Protection From Research on Sex and Trauma? New Evidence for Young Adult Resilience in “Sensitive Topics” Research
Institutional review boards (IRBs) have expressed concerns that certain individuals or groups, such as participants who are younger, ethnic minorities, or who have certain psychological or personality traits, may be particularly distressed when participating in "sensitive topics" research. This study examined the effects of several demographic and individual difference factors (i.e., age, sex, ethnicity, religiosity, Big Five personality traits, …
Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation
In their 1984 article, Priest and Klein show that a simple divergent expectations model of the decision to litigate leads to a plaintiff success rate at trial that approaches 50 percent as the fraction of cases going to trial approaches zero. However, an extensive empirical literature has documented that plaintiffs win far fewer than half of their cases. As Priest and Klein observe, this conflict between the predictions of the model and the empir…
Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study
Australia and an East Asian Community
Australia is not geographically part of East Asia, even though the northwest of Australia is close to the southeast of Asia through proximity to Indonesia. Even so, while Australia is not geographi
Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence
Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus?☆
Sexual Selection for Moral Virtues
Moral evolution theories have emphasized kinship, reciprocity, group selection, and equilibrium selection. Yet, moral virtues are also sexually attractive. Darwin suggested that sexual attractiveness may explain many aspects of human morality. This paper updates his argument by integrating recent research on mate choice, person perception, individual differences, costly signaling, and virtue ethics. Many human virtues may have evolved in both sex…
Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals
Conspicuous displays of consumption and benevolence might serve as "costly signals" of desirable mate qualities.If so, they should vary strategically with manipulations of mating-related motives.The authors examined this possibility in 4 experiments.Inducing mating goals in men increased their willingness to spend on conspicuous luxuries but not on basic necessities.In women, mating goals boosted public-but not private-helping.Although mating mot…
Testing the Controversy: An Empirical Examination of Adaptationists’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Science
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
This study explores the adaptive functions and design features of self-and other-deprecating humor. Sixty-four female and 32 male college students participated in a two-part study. In the first part, we examined the relationships among participant demographics, personality traits, and preferences for producing different types of humor. Men report using more other-deprecating humor than women do, and the use of other-deprecating humor decreases wi…
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity: Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting
Autism as the Low-Fitness Extreme of a Parentally Selected Fitness Indicator
The relationship between European genetic admixture and body composition among Hispanics and Native Americans
Previous studies have shown a relationship between health-related phenotypes and the degree of African, European, or Native American genetic admixture, indicating that there may be a genetic component to these phenotypes. However, these relationships may be driven to a large extent by the environmental differences that co-vary with admixture differences between and within groups. In this study, we examine the relationship between genetic admixtur…
Genetic admixture, self‐reported ethnicity, self‐estimated admixture, and skin pigmentation among Hispanics and Native Americans
The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self‐identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to the heterogeneity in individual admixture proportions and social environments within these groups. This study examines the relatio…
Die sexuelle Evolution
Perception of facial attractiveness requires some attentional resources: Implications for the “automaticity” of psychological adaptations
The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
By 2025, when most of today’s psychology undergraduates will be in their mid-30s, more than 5 billion people on our planet will be using ultra-broadband, sensor-rich smartphones far beyond the abilities of today’s iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries. Although smartphones were not designed for psychological research, they can collect vast amounts of ecologically valid data, easily and quickly, from large global samples. If participants download th…
Childhood experiences of professional comedians: Peer and parent relationships and humor use
This study examines a commonly held belief, left over from psychoanalytic theories of humor as a coping mechanism, that relationships with parents strongly influence comedians' temperaments and career choices. Thirty one professional stand-up comedians and 400 students completed the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), which concerns recollected parental care and protectiveness, and a new self-report questionnaire that measures popularity and humor…
Development and Validation of an 18-Item Medium Form of the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices
The Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) is a widely used measure of general intelligence ( g), both across settings and cultures. Due to its lengthy 40-min administration time, several researchers have developed short-form scales, yet these forms typically yield a significantly lower reliability. This article describes the creation of an 18-item short form (APM-18) and its validation in three samples of Southwestern U.S. university student…
Do Some Students Need Special Protection From Research on Sex and Trauma? New Evidence for Young Adult Resilience in “Sensitive Topics” Research
Institutional review boards (IRBs) have expressed concerns that certain individuals or groups, such as participants who are younger, ethnic minorities, or who have certain psychological or personality traits, may be particularly distressed when participating in "sensitive topics" research. This study examined the effects of several demographic and individual difference factors (i.e., age, sex, ethnicity, religiosity, Big Five personality traits, …
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors
We identify points of conflict and consensus regarding (a) controversial empirical claims and (b) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship—and scholars—should be treated. In 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews ( n = 41) to generate a quantitative survey ( N = 470) of U.S. psychology professors’ beliefs and values. Professors strongly disagreed on the truth status of 10 candidate taboo conclusions: For each conclusion, some pr…
How Do People Maintain Consensual Non-Monogamy? An International Development and Validation of the Multiple Relationships Maintenance Scale
Maintaining multiple intimate relationships entails some risks and complications beyond exclusive pair bonding (i.e., monogamy). Consensual non-monogamy (CNM; e.g., polyamory, swinging, or open relationships) allegedly reduces these risks and complications, but no one has tried to comprehensively document typical CNM risk management practices, nor analyzed the relationship outcomes of those who use these practices. We developed the Multiple Relat…
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