Lynn Carol Miller

Office Address: Annenberg School for Communication                                                                       

 3502 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90089-0281

Work: (213) 740-3948; (310) 798-1223; Home: (310) 798-5045                                                     

Education: University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., 1982; Personality Psychology

Grants Funded: PI to date: $7,437,836

Co-PI to date: $565,723

Combined total funding:$8,003,559

 AFOSR ( 2004-2005). Consultant with S. J. Read, S. J. on a project entitled, Personality-enabled Architecture for Cognition (PAC). PI (W. Zackary, Chi Systems) approximately $450,000.

NIAID/NIH, 2003-2008. PI: Lynn Carol Miller (Co-PI: Stephen Read, P. Robert Appleby). Virtual Sex: Real Risk Reduction for MSM: $3,649,146

United States Army, 2001-2003. PI: Lynn Carol Miller (Co-PI: Stephen Read). Personality in a Virtual Agent: $150,000.

Universitywide AIDS Research Program, 2001-2002; Co-PI on Why Methamphetamine Contributes to Risky Sex for MSM: $124,986

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1997-2001 PI: Lynn Carol Miller (Co PI 1997-1999: S.T. Murphy, 1999-2001:Robert Appleby) Multiple HIV Prevention Options: Minimizing Risk? When? $2,094,292 1997-2001

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994-1999 PI: Lynn Carol Miller (Co PI: S.T. Murphy) Selling Safer Sex: Meaning, Motives, and Message Complexity; $920,920 (1994-95, $251,893; 1995-96, $242,518; 1996-1999, $426,509)

Universitywide AIDS Research Program, State of California, 1996-1998; Co-PI: Lynn Carol Miller (PI: Stephen Read) Simulating safer sex: Interactive video as HIV intervention; $119,870

Annenberg Center/ University of Southern California Co-PI: Lynn Carol Miller (PI: Jerry Mendel; CO-PI: Sheila Murphy), Harassment in the Corporate Community: Using Fuzzy Logic to Create an Interactive Sensitivity Training Tool; $95,867

Universitywide AIDS Research Program, State of California Institutional Predoctoral Training Grant, 1992-1994; $100,440 for AIDS Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Renewal, 1994-1996, $134, 784; Renewal, 1996-1997, $67,392 Program Director: Lynn Miller (Total: $302, 616)

Annenberg Center/ University of Southern California (Co-PI: Lynn Carol Miller; Other Co-Principal Investigators: Sheila Murphy, Stephen Read,Gary Goldsmith, Michael Cody, and Peter Katona) Interactive media for social problems: A proposed interactive multimedia consortium, 1995-1996; $100,000

Universitywide AIDS Research Program; State of California , 1992-1993; PI, Mental Models and Safer Sex: Reducing Gay Lapse Behavior; $104,563

Universitywide AIDS Research Program; State of California, 1990-1993: PI, Negotiating Safer Sex: An Interpersonal Process; $122,661

Universitywide AIDS Research Program; State of California, 1989-1990: PI, Planner/Coordinator for a Conference entitled, The Social Psychology of AIDS, Bay Club, San Diego, California May 11-13, 1990; $3000

AT &T University Equipment Donation Program; 1993 Communication: Interface between Users and Technology; $125,000 to Communication Arts and Sciences; Co-Writer with Dr. Patricia Riley

NIMH grant funded, 1985-88 Listener traits in marital interaction, $91,038; PI

Awards :

International Network of Personal Relationships' Gerald R. Miller Early Career Award (1993)

NIMH pre-doctoral fellowship/ State of Texas Graduate Student Research Award

Phi Kappa Phi, Research Mentorship Award -- USC (1992)

Positions Held:

Annenberg School for Communication, USC; Joint appointment: Psychology Professor, 1997 to present; Associate Professor, 1992 to 1997;

Assistant Professor, 1989 to 1992. Scripps College, Claremont, CA (1984-89)/ N. I. U., DeKalb, Ill. (1982-84) Assistant Professor of Psychology

Consulting

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: A Workshop on Improving Acceptability Research Natcher Center, Balcony A, NIH Campus, Oct 25-26, 1999; one of a handful of scientists invited to present research that would inform NIH staff in developing an RFA on microbicide research.

Invited Participant: A Roundtable Conference Participant on Interactive Multimedia Decision Simulations; this two day conference was funded through Tufts University (October, 2000).

NIMH Panel Member: Special Topics Panel concerned with Communication Technology and AIDS Prevention December 2000, Bethesda, Maryland.

Publications

Volumes

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

Edited Chapters

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (in press). Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures in making dispositional inferences. In B. Malle & S. Hodges. Other Minds.  New York: Guilford Press.

Miller, L. C., & Read, S. J. (In press). Virtual Sex: Creating Environments for Reducing Risky Sex. In K. Portnoy and S. Cohen (Eds.). Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Mahway, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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

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

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

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 iin 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.

 Book Reviews:

 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.

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

Miller, L.C., & Wilcox, R. (revision under review). Evolved Mechanisms Affording Pair-bonding Explain Diversity Too: Reanalyzing Schmitt et al.’s (2003) Cross-Cultural Data Using Modern Statistical Methods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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

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

Wilken, H., & Miller, L.C. (in preparation). Mixed Messages: Implications of Combining Detection and Prevention Goals for HPV and Cervical Cancer. Human Communication Research.

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

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. Psychological Review.

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

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

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

Professional activities:

Reviewing:

Editorial Boards:

Annual Review of Personality and Social Psychology --sponsored by Division 8 of A.P.A. (1988-1995)

Past Associate Editor: Journal of Research in Personality

Consulting Editor : Journal of Personality and Social Psychology- Personality Processes and Individual Differences (current)

Past Consulting Editor: Personality and Social Psychology Review

Past Consulting Editor: Western Journal of Communication

Ad hoc reviewer for:

Psychological Review

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (social cognition; interpersonal sections)

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Psychological Bulletin

Journal of Research in Personality

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Communication Monographs

Human Communication Research

National Science Foundation

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Membership:

The Speech Communication Association

International Communication Association

International Network of Personal Relationships

American Psychological Association

Division 8 of A.P.A.

American Psychological Society, Charter Member

Society of Experimental Social Psychology (1988-present)

Teaching Experience:

Undergraduate courses taught: Communication and the Sexes; Communication Methods, AIDS, sex and communication: Honors seminar. Prior to coming to USC, I also taught the following: Personality Psychology (with lab), Human Communication, Social Psychology (with lab), Statistics, Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, and Senior Seminars

Graduate courses taught: Introductory Research Methods; Advanced Multivariate Methods and Statistics. Communication and AIDS: A Social Science Perspective; Interpersonal Communication; Graduate Proseminar: Current Advances in Communication Theory; Communication and Cognition