Volumes

Read, S.J. & Miller, L.C. (1998). Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior. Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.

Edited Chapters

Appleby, P.R., Godoy, C., Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (under contract). Increasing healthy behavior through the use of interactive video technology. In T. Edgar, S. M. Noar, V.S. Freimuth (Eds.). Communication perspectives for HIV/AIDS in the 21st century. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (2005). Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures in making dispositional inferences. In B. Malle & S. Hodges. Other Minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others. New York: Guilford Press, pp.124-142.

Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (2006) Virtual Sex: Creating environments for reducing risky sex. In S. Cohen, K. Portnoy, D. Rehberger, & C. Thorsen (Eds.). Virtual Decisions: Digital simulations for teaching reasoning in the social sciences and humanities. Mahway, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. (was "out" and available in 2005)

Mendel, J. M., Murphy, S., Miller, L.C., Martin, M., & Karnik, N. (1999). The Fuzzy Logic Advisor for Social Judgments. In L. A. Zadeh and J. Kacprzyk (Eds.). Computing With Words in Information/Intelligent Systems, Physica-Verlag, pp. 459-483.

Read, S.J. & Miller, L.C. (1998). On the dynamic construction of meaning: An interactive activation and competition model of social perception. In S.J. Read & L.C. Miller (Eds.). Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior. Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.

Miller, L.C. & Fishkin, S. A. (1997). On the dynamics of human bonding and reproductive success: Seeking a "window" on the "adapted-for" human-environment interface. In J. Simpson & D. Kenrick (Eds.), Evolutionary Social Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Miller, L.C., Rothspan, S. & Burns, D. (1995). Negotiating Safer Sex: The Dynamics of African-American Relationships. In P. J. Kalbfleisch & M. J. Cody (Eds.), Gender, power, and communication in human relationships. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L.C. (1995). Stories are fundamental to meaning and memory: For social creatures could it be otherwise? In R.S. Wyer, Jr., & T.K. Srull (Eds.), Advances in social cognition, Volume 8: Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story (Schank & Abelson). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Miller, L.C., Cody, M.J. , & McLaughlin, M. L.(1994). Situations and goals as fundamental constructs in interpersonal communication research. In M.L Knapp and G.R. Miller (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1994). Dissonance and balance in belief systems: The promise of parallel constraint satisfaction processes and connectionist modeling approaches. In R. C. Schank & E. J. Langer (Ed.) Beliefs, reasoning and decision making: Psycho-logic in honor of Bob Abelson. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Miller, L.C., Bettencourt, A., DeBro,S., & Hoffman, V. (1993). Negotiating Safer Sex: Interpersonal Dynamics. In J. Pryor and G. Reeder (Eds.). The Social Psychology of HIV Infection. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (1991a). Inter-personalism: Understanding persons in relationships. In W. Jones & D. Perlman (Eds.). Advances in Personal Relationships, Vol 2. London: Kingsley.

Miller, L.C., & Read, S.J. (1991b). A knowledge-structure approach to relationships. In G. Fletcher, & F. Fincham (Eds.), Cognition in close relationships. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Read, S.J., & Miller, L.C. (1989a). Inter-personalism: Toward a goal-based model of persons in relationships. In L. Pervin (Ed.) Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L.C. (1989c). The importance of goals in personality: Toward a coherent model of persons. In R.S. Wyer, Jr., & T.K. Srull (Eds.), Advances in social cognition, Volume 2: Social intelligence and cognitive assessments of personality. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (1987). Why am I telling you this? Self-disclosure in a goal-based model of personality. In V.Derlega & J. Berg (Eds.). Self-disclosure: Theory, Research, and Therapy, (pp. 35-58). New York: Plenum.

Miller, L.C., & Berg, J. H. (1984). Selectivity and urgency in interpersonal exchange. In V. Derlega (Ed.) Communication, Intimacy, and Close Relationships. New York: Academic Press.

Articles In Peer Reviewed Journals                                                                          back to top

Yu Yang, Read, S. J., & Miller, L.C. (in press). A taxonomy of situations from Chinese idioms. Journal of Research in Personality.

Read, Stephen J., Miller, Lynn C., Appleby, Paul Robert, Nwosu, Mary E., Reynaldo, Sadina, Lauren, Ada & Putcha, Anila (2006). Socially Optimized Learning in a Virtual Environment: Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men. Human Communication Research 32 (1), 1-33. 1-34.

Miller, L.C., Pedersen, W. C., & Putcha-Bhagavala, A. (2005). Promiscuity in an Evolved Pair-bonding System: Mating Within and Outside the Pleistocene Box. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 290-291.

Appleby, P. R., Marks, G., Ayala, A., Miller, L.C., Murphy, S., & Mansergh, G. (2005). Consideration of future consequences and unprotected anal intercourse among men who have sex with men. Journal of Homosexuality. 50 (1), 119-133.

Zachary, W., LeMentec, J-C., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005). Steps toward a Personality-based Architecture for Cognition. Paper in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Los Angeles, CA. (Top paper
award)

Zachary, W., Le Mentec, J.-C.. Miller, L.C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005). Human behavioral representations with realistic personality and cultural characteristics. Paper in the Proceedings of the Tenth International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, McLean, VA. 

Saul, J., Moore, J., Murphy, S. T., & Miller, L.C. (2004). Relationship violence and women’s reactions to male- and female- controlled HIV prevention methods. AIDS and Behavior, 8(2), 207-214.

Miller, L.C., Murphy, S. T., Clark , L.F., Hamburger, M., & Moore, J. (2004) Hierarchical Messages for Introducing Multiple HIV Prevention Options: Promise and Pitfalls. AIDS Education and Prevention, 16 (5).

Read, S. J., & Miller, L.C. (2002). Virtual Personalities: A Neural Network Model of Personality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 357-369.

Miller, L. C., Putcha-Bhagavatula, A. D., Pedersen, W. C. (2002). Men’s and women’s mating preferences: Distinct evolutionary mechanisms? Current Directions, 11, 88-93.

Pedersen, W. C., Miller, L.C., Putcha, A. D., & Yang, Y. (2002). Evolved sex differences in the number of partners desired? The long and the short of it. Psychological Science. 13, 157-161.

Rader, M., Marks, G, Mansergh, G., Crepaz, N., Miller, L.C., Appleby, P.R., & Murphy, S. (2001). Preferences about the characteristics of future HIV prevention products among men who have sex with men.  AIDS Education and Prevention, 13(2), 149-159.

Miller, L.C., Pedersen, W.C., Johnson, A. R., Putcha, A. D. (2000). For the short-term: Are women just looking for a few pairs of genes? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (4).

Crepaz, N., Marks, G, Mansergh, G., Murphy, S., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R. (2000) Age-related risk for HIV infection in men who have sex with men: Examination of behavioral, relationship, and serostatus variables.AIDS Education & Prevention , Vol 12(5), 405-415.

 Mansergh G, Marks G, Miller L, Appleby PR, Murphy S. (2000). Is 'knowing people with HIV/AIDS' associated with safer sex in men who have sex with men? AIDS, 14, 1845-1851.

 Murphy, S.T., Miller, L.C. Clark, L.F., & Moore, J. (2000). Preaching to the Choir: Female Control Methods and HIV Risk. American Journal of Public Health.

 Marks G, Mansergh G, Crepaz N, Murphy S, Miller L, Appleby P.R. (2000). Future HIV prevention options for men who have sex with men: Preferences and intentions regarding a potential microbicide for anal intercourse. AIDS and Behavior, Vol 4(3), 279-287.

 Monahan, J. L, Murphy, S.T., & Miller, L.C. (1999). When women imbibe: Alcohol and the illusory control of HIV Risk. Psychology of Women Quarterly. Vol 23(3), 643-651

Appleby, P.R., Miller, L., & Rothspan, S. (1999). The paradox of trust for male couples: When risking is but a part of loving. Personal Relationships, 6, 81-93

Murphy, S. T., Monahan, J. L., & Miller, L.C. (1998). Inference under the Influence: The impact of alcohol and inhibition conflict on women's sexual decision making. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 517-528.

 Monahan, J., Miller, L.C., & Rothspan, S. (1997). Power and intimacy: On the dynamics of risky sex. Health Communication. Vol 9(4), 303-32

 Read, S.J., Vanman, E.J., & Miller, L.C. (1997). Connectionism, Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes, and Gestalt Principles: (Re) Introducing Cognitive Dynamics to Social Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 26-53.

 Vanman, E.J., Read, S.J., & Miller, L.C. (1995). Gestalt principles and parallel constraint satisfaction processes: The parallels. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 836-841.

Collins, N., & Miller, L. C. (1994). Self-disclosure and liking: A Meta-Analytic Review. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 457-475.

Read, S.J., & Miller, L.C. (1993). Rapist or "regular guy": Explanatory coherence in the construction of mental models of others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 526-540.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L.C. (1993). Explanatory Coherence in the construction of mental models of others. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 836-841.

Miller, L.C., Cooke, L. L., Tsang, J., & Morgan, F. (1992). Should I brag? Nature and impact of positive and negative disclosures for women and men. Human Communication Research, 18, 364-399.

Read, S.J., Jones, D. K., & Miller, L.C. (1990). Traits as goal-based categories: The role of goals in the coherence of dispositional categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 1048-1061.

Read, S.J., Miller, L.C., & Jones, D. (1990). Goals and the conceptual coherence of social categories. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28 (3) 261-267.

Miller, L.C. (1990). Intimacy and liking: Mutual influence and the role of unique relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 50-60.

 Read, S.J., & Miller, L.C. (1989b). Explanatory coherence in understanding persons, interactions, and relationships. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 485-486.

Read, S.J., Druian, P.R., & Miller, L.C. (1989). The role of causal sequence in the meaning of action. British Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 341-351.

Miller, L.C., & Kenny, D. (1986). Reciprocity of self-disclosure at the individual and dyadic levels: A Social Relations Analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 713-719.

Miller, L.C., Lechner, R.E., & Rugs, D. (1985). Development of conversational responsiveness: Preschoolers' use of responsive listener cues and relevant comments. Developmental Psychology, 21, 473-480.

Miller, L.C., Berg, J. H., & Archer, R. L. (1983). Openers: Individuals who elicit intimate disclosures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 1234-1244.

Miller, L.C., & Cox, C.L. (1982). For appearances sake: Public self-consciousness and makeup use. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 748-751.

Swann, W.B., & Miller, L.C. (1982). Why never forgetting a face matters: visual imagery and social memory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 475-480.

 Miller, L. C., Murphy, R., & Buss, A. H. (1981). Consciousness of body: Private and public. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 397-406.

Zachary, W., LeMentec, J-C., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005). Steps toward a Personality-based Architecture for Cognition. Paper in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Los Angeles, CA.

Zachary, W., Le Mentec, J.-C.. Miller, L.C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005). Human behavioral representations with realistic personality and cultural characteristics. Paper in the Proceedings of the Tenth International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, McLean, VA.

Book Reviews:                                                                                                          back to top

Miller, L.C. (1993). Communicating about "Communicating" AIDS: Multiple Perspectives (Review of AIDS: A Communication Perspective by Edgar, T., Fitzpatrick, M.A., & Freimuth, V. S.). Contemporary Psychology, 38, 864-865.

Miller, L.C. (1994). A Thin Bat's Squeak of Sexuality (Review of Sexuality by Susan Sprecher & Kathleen McKinney). Contemporary Psychology.

Productions

HIV prevention interactive videos in two venues (internet, bar/club) for Caucasian, Latino, and African American MSM (2004). Interdisciplinary team products funded by NIAID grant to Lynn Miller, Stephen Read, & Robert Appleby.

Click here for a sample clip.

Gay men’s interactive video (1996). Interdisciplinary team product

(Directors: Kirk Marcolina (MFA, USC Cinema) & Derth Adams (MFA, USC Cinema); Faculty Advisors: Lynn Miller (Annenberg), Stephen Read(Psychology), Sheila Murphy (Annenberg), Gary Goldsmith (Cinema), Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles (off-campus)); early development funded by a grant to Lynn Miller (UARP); later final product funded by a grant from the Annenberg Center.

Description/goals: Goal of the video is to enhance “contextualized learning” of safer sex communicative strategies/behaviors in a simulated sexual/relationship encounter.

African American Women's Hierarchical Message Videos (1997). (Directors: Kirk Marcolina (MFA, USC Cinema) & Derth Adams (MFA, USC Cinema); Faculty Advisors: Lynn Miller and Sheila T. Murphy. Developed for ongoing CDC grant, Selling Safer Sex .

 Manuscripts under review or in preparation                                                             back to top

Miller, L.C., & Wilcox, R. (revision in preparation). Evolved Mechanisms Affording Pair-bonding Explain Diversity Too: Reanalyzing Schmitt et al.’s (2003) Cross-Cultural Data Using Modern Statistical Methods.

Read, S.J., Miller, L.C., Nwosu, M. E., Appleby, P. R., Rothspan, S., Lauren, A., & Putcha Bagavatula, A. (revision in preparation). Interactive Video Reduces Risky Sex Behavior for Men Who Have Sex with Men.

Shumate, M., Miller, L.C., Albright, J., Appleby, R. (revision in preparation). Do the changes make a difference in HIV Prevention? Testing the role of mediators in the Theory of Reasoned Action.

Miller, L.C., Pedersen, W. C., & Pucha-Bagavatula, A. (in preparation). Evolved Sex Differences in Mating Strategies? Smoke, Mirrors, and Leaps of Faith.

Miller, L.C., Pedersen, W. C., Putcha-Bagavatula, A., & Read, S.J. (revise and resubmit). Attachment Fertility Theory: When Fathers Matter, Homologous (Sex-Similar) Mechanisms Prevail.

Miller, L.C., Pedersen, W. C., Putcha-Bagavatula, A., & Read, S.J. (in preparation). Attachment Fertility Theory: Interwoven Design in an Embodied Evolutionary Dynamics.

Miller, L.C. (in preparation). Towards a Mindful Evolutionary Dynamics: Slowed Growth Dramatically Impacted Mind...as well as Caring.

Miller, L.C. (in preparation). Mating in a Material World: Policy Implications of Evolutionary Dynamics for Today.