Curriculum Vitae (7/2011)

Joan Miller

Department of Psychology New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, Room 701 New York, NY 10011 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (212) 229-5727, Ext. 3106 Fax: (212) 989-0846

Education

1982 Ph.D. University of Chicago, Committee on Human Development 1976 M.A. University of Chicago, Committee on Human Development 1973 M.S.W University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration 1971 B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University

Professional Positions

2008 – Present Professor, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research 2006 – 2009 Chair, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research 2005 – 2006 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research 2003 - 2007 Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty, New School University 1997 - 2003 Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Michigan 1995 - 1997 Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University 1988 – 1995 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University 1984 - 1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University 1982 – 1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago 1973 – 1975 Clinician, United Charities Family Services, Chicago

Grants and Awards

2007 – 2012 National Science Foundation, Social Psychology Program. The Cultural Context of Social Support Exchange. $460,687.

1995 – 1999 National Science Foundation, Social Psychology Program and Cultural Anthropology Program (Joint Support), Culture and Motivation: A Cross- Cultural Study, $265,674. 1995 – 1999 National Institute of Mental Health, Culture and Motivation: A Cross-Cultural Study, $302,952.

1991 – 1995 National Institute of Mental Health, Culture and Moral Development: A Cross-Cultural Study, $180,536.

1991 – 1994 National Science Foundation, Social Psychology Program, Culture and Moral Development: A Cross-Cultural Study, $126,488.

1989 – 1992 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Research (Student Robin Harwood), Culture and Normative Developmental Models. $5,972.

1987 – 1990 National Institute of Mental Health, Culture and Moral Development: A Cross-Cultural Study, $226,211.

1980 – 1981 National Institute of Mental Health, National Research Service Award. Dissertation on culture and social explanation, $5,000.

1980 – 1981 East-West Center Predoctoral Fellowship, Dissertation on Culture and Social Explanation, $5,000.

Editorial Work and Other Major Professional Activities

2010 Member of International Program Committee, ISSBD

2007 Member of Awards Committee, International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. (Appointed by ISSBD Executive Committee).

2007 External Dissertation Examiner, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

2006 – Present Member of Executive Board, International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. (Elected by vote of members of ISSBD).

2000 – 2006 Editor, Newsletter of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). Responsibilities included organizing Special Sections of Newsletter involving international groups of scholars on topics in developmental psychology.

2005 Member of Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior IRG, National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, Special

2 Emphasis Panel.

2004 Member of External Review Team participating in review of graduate programs and research, University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.

1998 - 2006 Assistant Editor for Theory and Method, Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin. Responsibilities included soliciting articles for ongoing series of essays examining issues of theory and method in cultural approaches to psychology.

2000 Awarded Nehru Chair Visiting Professorship at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India (Served as lecturer during Summer, 2000).

2009- Present Editorial Board, Journal of Women’s Intercultural Leadership

2001 – Present Editorial Board, Ethos.

1996 – Present Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Social Psychology.

1996 – 2006 Editorial Board, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

1995 – 1999 Editorial Board, Psychological Science.

2004 Member of National Science Foundation Site Visit Team for Science of Learning Centers (SLC).

1995-1999 Member of Human Development and Aging I Study Section, National Institutes of Health.

1995 – 1996 Member of NASA Behavior and Performance Working Group (Consulting Regarding cross-cultural aspects of international space missions).

Intermittent Ad Hoc Reviewer for: (1) Meetings of Society for Research in Child Development; (2) Social Psychology Programs and Cultural Anthropology Programs of National Science Foundation; (3) B-Start Program for New Investigators of National Institutes of Mental Health; (4) Major journals in developmental, social, cognitive, cultural, and general areas of psychology.

Major Addresses

2011 Invited address on “Toward a more social view of theory of mind: Conceptually broadening the theory of mind framework at the Developmental Psychology, Spring, 2011, Colloquium Series, CUNY

3 Graduate Center, New York, NY.

2010 Invited address on “The Need to Transcend Psychologized Views of Culture: A Case Study of Culture and Reciprocity” at Conference on Emerging Perspectives on Culture: A Research Symposium on Constructivist Processing and the Impact of Culture on Human Judgment and Decision Making. The Center for Decision Science, Columbia University Business School, October 1, 2010.

2007 Invited Speaker at international conference on “Culturalizing of the Self”. Chemnitz, Germany.

2007 Invited Speaker at international conference on “Family Life and Child Development in the Changing Economic Context of China”. Shanghai, China.

2001 Invited Speaker at 49th Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation Conference on “Cross-Cultural Differences in Perspectives on the Self.” Lincoln, Nebraska.

2000 Plenary address to the 14th International Conference on Challenges for the 21st Century: Mental Health Services Research, on “Acculturation in mental health services research: Current limitations and new perspectives”. National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C..

1997 Invited Speaker at Tenth Annual University of Massachusetts, Amherst Conference on Adversity, on “Beyond diversity: Culture and basic psychological theory”. Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.

1997 Keynote Address to New England Social Psychological Association (NESPA), on “Contexts of development: Culture and gender in the morality of caring”. Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.

1996 Invited Debate with Carol Gilligan on “Culture, gender, and relational theory”. Boston Area Forum on Cultural Psychology, Harvard University,

1995 Invited Address to Boston Area Forum on Cultural Psychology, on “Advancing knowledge in cultural psychology: How do we know what we know, and where do we go from here?”. Harvard University.

1995 Invited Speaker at Workshop on Ethnography and the Illumination of Socio-cultural Processes, on “Compatibilities and incompatibilities of ethnographic and quantitative methods: Making explicit the contributions

4 of culture to empirical research”. National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C.

1993 Co-Leader with Shinobu Kitayama of Workshop sponsored by Society of Experimental Social Psychology on “Cross-cultural methodology: Pitfalls and promises”, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1993 Keynote Address to Conference of Sikolhiyang Pilipino, East Coast Chapter, on “Indigenous perspectives: A call for reorientation of the social sciences”. New Haven, CT.

1992 Invited Speaker at Workshop on Violence against Ethnic Women of Color: Research Issues, on “What components of culture may affect gender roles?”. National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C.

Publications

Miller, J.G., & Boyle, J. Patrick. (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: John Wiley & Sons.

Miller, J. & Chauhan, V. (In press). Cultural psychology. In V.S. Ramachandran (Editor), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. Elsevier Press: Oxford, UK.

Miller, J., & Kinsbourne, M. (2011). Culture and neuroscience in developmental psychology: Contributions and challenges. Child Development Perspectives.

Miller, J.G., Das, R., & Chakravarthy, S. (2011). Culture and the role of choice in agency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1, 46-61.

Miller, J.G. & Bland, C. (2009). Morality. In R.A. Shweder, T.R. Bidell, A.C. Dailey, S.D. Dixon, P.J. Miller & J. Modell (Eds.), The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (pp. 629- 631). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Miller, J. G., Chakravarthy, S., & Das, R. (2008). The moral emotions of guilt and satisfaction: A cross-cultural perspective. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 3, 236-250.

Wellman, H. & Miller, J. (2008). Including deontic reasoning as fundamental to theory of mind. Human Development, 51, 105-135.

5 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.

Wellman, H.M. & Miller, J.G. (2006). Developing conceptions of responsive intentional agents. Culture and Cognition, 6 (1), 27-55.

Miller, J.G. (2005). Insights into moral development from cultural psychology. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (pp. 375-398). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Miller, J. G. (2005). Is community compatible with autonomy? Cultural ideals versus empirical realities. In W. Edelstein & G. Nunner-Winkler (Eds.), Morality in context (pp. 293- 311). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Miller, J.G. (2005). The essential role of culture in developmental psychology. In R. Larson & L. Jensen (Eds.), Developmental Horizons. New Directions for Child Development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.

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.

Miller, J.G. (2004). The cultural deep structure of psychological theories of social development. In R. Sternberg & E. Grigorenko (Eds.), Culture and competence: Contexts of life success (pp. 11-138). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

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. (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. & Schaberg, L. (2003). Cultural perspectives on personality and social psychology. In T. Millon & M. Lerner (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology: Vol. 5, Personality and Social Psychology (31-56). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Miller, J.G. (2003). Challenges and contributions of neuroscience in developmental psychology. International Society for Study of Behavioural Development Newsletter, 43 (1) 13.

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.

6 Miller, J. (2002). Integrating cultural psychological and biological perspectives in understanding child development. In H. Keller, Y.H. Poortinga & S. Schoelmerich (Eds.), Between biology and culture: Perspectives on ontogenetic development. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, J. (2002). Culture and the self: Implications for psychological theory. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. England: Elsevier Science.

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.

Baron, J. & Miller, J.G. (2000). Limiting the scope of the moral obligation to help: A cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31(6), 703-725.

Miller, J.G. (2000). Vertragt sich gemeinschaft mit autonomie? Kulturelle ideale und empirische wirklichkeiten. In W. Edelstein & G. Nunner-Winkler (Hrsg.) Moral im Kontext (pp. 337-362. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Miller, J.G. & Berry, N. (1999). Culture in conversation: A commentary on Pontecorvo and Fasulo’s planning a typical Italian meal. Culture and Psychology, 5, 459-469.

Miller, J.G. (1999). Cultural psychology: Implications for basic psychological theory. Psychological Science, 10, 85-91.

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. (1998). Theory and method: Series introduction. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 32, 6-7.

Miller, J.G. (1997). Agency and context in cultural psychology: Implications for moral theory. In H. Saltzstein (Ed.), Culture as a context for moral development: New perspectives on the particular and the universal. New Directions for Child Development, No: 76 (pp. 69-85). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.

Miller, J.G. (1997). Understanding the role of world views in morality. Human Development, 40, 350-354.

7 Miller, J.G. (1997). Cultural conceptions of duty: Implications for morality and motivation. In J. Schumaker, D. Munro & S. Carr (Eds.), Motivation and culture (pp. 178-193). New York, NY: Routledge.

Miller, J.G. (1997). Culture and the self: Uncovering the cultural grounding of psychological theory. In G. Snodgrass & R. Thompson (Eds.), The self across psychology: Self recognition, self-awareness, and the self concept (pp. 217-231). NY: Academy of Sciences.

Miller, J.G. (1997). The interdependence of interpretive ethnographic and quantitative psychological methodologies in cultural psychology. Ethos, 25, 164-176. In T.J. Csordas & J.H. Jenkins (Eds.), Special issue on ethnography.

Miller, J.G. (1997). Theoretical issues in cultural psychology. In J.W. Berry, Y. Poortinga & J. Pandey (Eds.), Handbook of cross-cultural psychology: Volume 1: Theoretical and methodological perspectives, Revised ed. (pp. 85-128). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Miller, J.G. (1997). Taking culture into account in social cognitive development. Psychology and Developing Societies, 9, 9-34.

Miller, J.G. (1996). A cultural psychology perspective on intelligence. In R.J. Sternberg & E.L. Grigorenko (Eds.), Intelligence: Heredity and environment (pp. 269-302). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, J.G. (1996). Culture as a source of order in social motivation. Psychological Inquiry, 238-241.

Miller, J.G. & Bersoff, D.M. (1995). Development in the context of everyday family relationships: Culture, interpersonal morality and adaptation. In M. Killen & D. Hart (Eds.), Morality in everyday life: A developmental perspective (pp. 259-282). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harwood, R.H., Miller, J.G. & Irizarry, N.L. (1995). Culture and attachment: Perceptions of the child in context. Series on Culture and Human Development, S. Harkness & C. Super (Series Eds.), New York: Guilford Press.

Miller, J.G. (1994). Cultural psychology: Bridging disciplinary boundaries in understanding the cultural grounding of self. In P. Bock (Ed.), Handbook of Psychological Anthropology (pp. 139-70). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

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. & 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

8 within individuals", 20, 5, 592-602.

Bersoff, D.M. & Miller, J.G. (1993). Culture, context and the development of moral accountability judgments. Developmental Psychology, 29, 664-676.

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.

Harwood, R.L. & Miller, J.G. (1991). Perceptions of attachment behavior: A comparison of Anglo and Puerto Rican mothers. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 37, 583-599.

Miller, J.G. (1991). A cultural perspective on the morality of beneficence and interpersonal responsibility. In S. Ting-Toomey & F. Korzenny (Eds.), International and intercultural communication annual, Vol 15. (pp. 11-27). Newbury Park: Sage.

Miller, J.G., Bersoff, D.M. & Harwood, R.L. (1990). Perceptions of social responsibilities in India and in the United States: Moral imperatives or personal decisions? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 33-47. Reprinted in L.A. Peplau & S.E. Taylor (Eds.) (1997), Sociocultural perspectives in social psychology. N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Miller, J.G. & Luthar, S. (1989). Issues of interpersonal responsibility and accountability: A comparison of Indians' and Americans' moral judgments. Social Cognition, 7, 237-261.

Harrow, M., Lanin-Kettering, I. & Miller, J.G. (1989). Impaired perspective and thought pathology in schizophrenic and psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 15, 605-623.

Miller, J.G. (1988). Bridging the content-structure dichotomy: Culture and the self. In M.H. Bond (Ed.), The cross-cultural challenge to social psychology. (pp. 266-281). Newburg Park: Sage Publications.

Miller, J.G. & Bersoff, D.M. (1988). When do American children and adults reason in social conventional terms? Developmental Psychology, 24, 366-375.

Shweder, R.A., Mahapahtra, M. & Miller, J.G. (1987). Culture and moral development. In J. Kagan & S. Lamb (Eds.), The emergence of morality in young children. (pp. 1-90). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted in J.W. Stigler, R.A. Shweder & G.H. Herdt, (1990), Cultural psychology: Essays on comparative human development, (pp.130-204). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, J.G. (1987). Cultural influences on the development of conceptual differentiation in person description. British Journal of Developmental Psych, 5, 309-319.

Miller, J.G., Harrow, M. & Lanin-Kettering, I. (1987). Impaired perspective in

9 schizophrenia. In R. Grinker & M. Harrow (Eds.), Clinical research in schizophrenia: A multi-dimensional approach, (pp. 211-224). Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Miller, J.G. (1986). Early cross-cultural commonalities in social explanation. Developmental Psychology, 22, 514-520.

Shweder, R.A. & Miller, J.G. (1985). The social construction of the person: How is it possible? In K.J. Gergen & K.E. Davis, (Eds.), The social construction of the person. (pp. 41-69). New York: Springer Verlag. Reprinted in R.A. Shweder, (1991), Thinking through cultures: Expeditions in cultural psychology, (pp. 156-185). Cambridge: Harvard Press.

Miller, J.G. (1984). Culture and the development of everyday social explanation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 961-978.

Harrow, M., Lanin-Kettering, I., Prosen, M. & Miller, J.G. (1983). Disordered thinking in schizophrenia: Intermingling and loss of set. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 9, 354-367.

Harrow, M. & Miller, J.G. (1980). Schizophrenic thought disorders and impaired perspective. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 89, 717-727.

In Process

Miller, J. G., Bland, C., Kallberg-Shroff, M., Tseng, C-Yi, Montes-George, J., Ryan, K. & Das, R. (under review) . Is friendship based on exchange vs. on need based responsiveness?: Between and within-culture variation.

Tseng, C-Yi & Miller, J. G. (under review). Culture and social support in coping with stress: A psychological enterprise or an instrumental world?

Miller, J.G. (forthcoming). Moral development in cultural context. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Book Reviews

Miller, J.G. (2007) Commentary on Why Hawks Win by D. Kahneman & J. Renshon. Foreign Policy. http://www.foreignpolicy.com.

Miller, J.G. (2005). The social self. PsycCRITIQUES.

Miller, J.G. (2004). Appraising cultural influences on moral development: Is culture only power? Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Book, 49, 239-95. (Review of E. Turiel, The culture of morality: Social development, context, and conflict).

10 Miller, J.G. (2001). Is there a future for Kohlbergian theory in research on moral development? Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 46, 359-362. (Review of J. Rest, D. Narvaez, M.J. Bebeau, & S.J. Thoma, Postconventional moral thinking: A neo- Kohlbergian approach).

Miller, J.G. (1999). Is the Cognitive Revolution misguided? Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 44, 47-49. (Review of C. Lee (Ed.), Alternatives to cognition: A new look at explaining human social behavior).

Miller, J.G. (1997). Building a more culturally inclusive psychology. Contemporary Psychology, 42, 399-400. (Review of L.L. Adler & U.P. Gielen (Eds.), Cross-cultural topics in psychology).

Miller, J.G. (1997). Book review. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 28, 235-236. (Review of R.A. Brislin, Understanding culture's influence on behavior).

Miller, J.G. (1995). The role of culture in psychology. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 29, 19-26. (Review of J.W. Berry, Y.H. Poortinga, M.H. Segall & P.R. Dasen, Cross- cultural psychology: Research and applications and of R.A. Brislin, Understanding culture's influence on behavior).

Miller, J.G. (1995). Psychology as a cultural discipline that has strayed from its past. Theory and Psychology, 5, 605-607. (Review of G. Jahoda, Crossroads between culture and mind: Continuities and change in theories of human nature).

Miller, J.G. (1992). Book review. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 23, 540-541. (Review of G.A. DeVos & M. Suarez-Orozco, (Eds.), Status inequality: The self in culture).

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