I received my B.A. from Barnard College and my Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago. My research interests include culture and social motivation; culture and the development of theory of mind; close relationships, interpersonal reciprocity, and social support; social cognition and moral development; adolescence and parent-child relationships; and cultural psychology.
Kapadia, S. & Miller, J.G. (2005). Parent adolescent relationships in the context of interpersonal disagreements: View from a collectivist culture. Psychology and Developing Societies, 17, 33-50.
Miiller, J.G., Chakravarthy, S. & Das, R. (2008). The moral emotions of guilt and satisfaction: A cross-cultural perspective. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 236-250.
Miller, J. G. (1999). Cultural psychology: Implications for basic psychological theory. Psychological Science, 10, 85-91.
Miller, J. G. (1994). Cultural diversity in the morality of caring: Individually oriented versus duty-based interpersonal moral codes. Cross Cultural Research, 28, 3-39.
Miller, J. G. (1984). Culture and the development of everyday social explanation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 961-978.
Miller, J. G. (2002). Bringing culture to basic psychological theory: Beyond individualism and collectivism: Comment on Oyserman et al. (2002). Psychological Bulletin, 128(1), 97-109.
Miller, J. G., & Bersoff, D. B. (1998). The role of liking in perceptions of the moral responsibility to help: A cultural perspective. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 443-469.
Miller, J. G., & Bersoff, D. M. (1994). Cultural influences on the moral status of reciprocity and the discounting of endogenous motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. In D. Miller & D. Prentice (Eds.), Special issue on "The self and the collective: Groups within individuals", 20, 5, 592-602.
Miller, J. G., & Bersoff, D. M. (1992). Culture and moral judgment: How are conflicts between justice and interpersonal responsibilities resolved? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 541-554.
Miller, J.G., Das, R., & Chakravarthy, S. (2011). Culture and the role of choice in agency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 46-61.
Miller, J. & Kinsbourne, M. (2011). Culture and neuroscience in developmental psychology: Contributions and challenges. Child Development Perspectives.
Wellman, H., & Miller, J. (2008). Including deontic reasoning as fundamental to theory of mind. Human Development, 51, 105-135.
Wellman, H.M. & Miller, J.G. (2006). Developing conceptions of responsive intentional agents. Culture and Cognition, 6, 27-55.
Other Publications:
Miller, J.G. (2006). Cultural psychology of moral development. In S. Kitayama & D.Cohen (Eds.). Handbook of Cultural Psychology (pp. 477-499). New York: Guilford Press.
Miller, J. G. (2003). Culturally sensitive research questions and methods in social psychology. In C. Sansone, C.C. Morf, & A. T. Panter (Eds.), Sage handbook of methods in social psychology (pp. 93-116). Thousand Oaks, CA.
Miller, J. G. (2003). Culture and agency: Implications for psychological theories of motivation and social development. In V. Murphy-Berman & J. Berman (Eds.), Nebraska symposium on motivation: Cross-cultural differences in perspectives on the self (Vol. 49, pp. 59-99). Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Miller, J. G. (2001). Culture and moral development. In D. Matsumoto (Ed.), The handbook of culture and psychology (pp. 151-169). New York: Oxford University Press.
Miller, J. G. (2001). The cultural grounding of social psychological theory. In A. Tesser & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Volume 1. Intrapersonal Processes (pp. 22-43). Blackwell: Oxford, UK.
Miller, J.G. & Boyle, J.P. (In press). Culture and social psychology. In T. Millon & M. Lerner (Eds), Handbook of Psychology, Vol 5, Personality and Social Psychology (2/e). New York: Wiley & Sons.
Courses Taught:
Cultural Psychology
Culture and the Development of Thought
Development of Morality and Social Cognition
Research Methods in Developmental and Social Psychology
Cultural Psychology
Culture and the Development of Thought
Development of Morality and Social Cognition
Research Methods in Developmental and Social Psychology
Joan G. Miller Department of Psychology
New School for Social Research
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