Social Psychology Graduate Student
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Social Psychology Graduate Student
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Motivation and emotion; social cognition; evolutionary psychology; intergroup psychology & prejudice; individual differences; judgment and decision making; romantic attraction and romantic relationships; neurological and hormonal mechanisms of social cognition.
My current research examines the impact of motivations and emotions on basic social cognitive processes such as categorization, attention, and memory. Much of my research in social cognition is guided by evolutionary theories, focusing specifically on areas such as intergroup relations, power, romantic attraction, and mate guarding. I am also interested in understanding the neurological and hormonal mechanisms accompanying such mental processes.
Maner, J.K., Miller, S.L., Schmidt, N.B., & Eckel, L. (in press). Submitting to defeat: Social anxiety, dominance threat, and decrements in testosterone. Psychological Science.
Miller, S.L., Celone, K., DePeau, K., Diamond, E., Dickerson, B.C., Rentz, D., Pihlajamaki, M., & Sperling, R. (2008). Age-related memory impairment associated with loss of parietal deactivation but preserved hippocampal activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(8), 2181-2186.
Miller, S.L., Fenstermacher, E., Bates, J., Sperling, R.A., & Dickerson, B.C. (2007). Hippocampal activation in adults with mild cognitive impairment predicts subsequent cognitive decline. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry. [Epub ahead of print].
Maner, J.K., Gailliot, M.T., Rouby, D.A., & Miller, S.L. (2007). Can’t take my eyes off you: Attentional adhesion to mates and rivals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(3), 389-401.
Diamond, E.L., Miller, S.L., Dickerson, B., Atri, A., DePeau, K., Fenstermacher, E., Pihalajamaki, M., Celone, K., Salisbury, S., Gregas, M., Rentz, D., & Sperling, R. (2007). Relationship of fMRI activation to clinical trial memory measures in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology, 69(13), 1331-1341.
Dickerson, B.C., Miller, S.L., Greve, D.N., Dale, A.M., Albert, M.S., Schacter, D.L., & Sperling, R.A. (2007). Prefrontal-hippocampal-fusiform activity during encoding predicts intra-individual differences in free recall ability: An event-related functional-anatomic MRI study. Hippocampus, 17(11), 1060-1070.
Celone, K.A., Calhoun, V.D., Dickerson, B.C., Atri, A., Chua, E.F., Miller, S.L., DePeau, K., Rentz, D.M., Selkoe, D.J., Blacker, D., Albert, M.S., & Sperling, R.A. (2006). Alterations in memory networks in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: an independent components analysis. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 10222-10231.
Last Update: 4/2/08
