Email:memills@gmail.comNote: Since I routinely delete about 80% of my email without reading it (due to spam, newsletters, etc.), please include "LMU" in your email subject heading when you email me.
General Interests:
Evolutionary psychology Evolved cognitive and emotional adaptations (i.e., human nature) , life history strategies, motivation, memetics, evolutionary feedback loops, animal behavior.
Sex differences / gender differences Evolved sexually dimorphic psychological adaptations, and their proximate mechanisms (e.g., effects of early fetal hormonalization on brain development, cross-cultural manifestations of sexually dimorphic adaptations).
Ecological psychology Psychological strategies humans might implement to avoid ecological overshoot and population collapse.
Psychometrics / psychological testing Personality and the prediction of relationship satisfaction, assessment of motivation, personality and retrospective satisfaction with the decision to have children, web-based psychological testing.
Computer applications in psychology Web-based psychological assessment, collaborative research and teaching via Web 2.0 platforms (wikis, etc.).
Current Research Projects:
Evolutionary theories, and assessment, of human motivation
Prediction of relationship satisfaction/longevity
Prediction of satisfaction with the decision to have children
Manifestations of sexually dimorphic adaptations (e.g., sex differences in the events that trigger jealousy; effects of father absence on life history strategies).
SexDifferences.com (coming soon!) -- online book on evolved sexually dimorphic adaptations.
Some computer aids to help you boost your productivity:
Reading. Keep up with that mountain of reading -- have your computer read files aloud to you (including online articles or books, or those that you've scanned in) with TextAloud. It can also save audio files to MP3 format for listening with a portable MP3 player in the car, at the gym, etc. I use the AT&T Natural Voices option for very human sounding speech synthesis.
Writing. Speed up your writing with a computer dictation program such as NaturallySpeaking or ViaVoice.
Editing with Vi. If you are a vi editor addict like me, and have been looking for a vi editor emulation plug-in for Microsoft Word for Windows that allows for the use of vi commands for editing within MS Word, see Vi/vim emulation for Visual Studio, Word, Outlook and SQL Server http://www.viemu.com/ . Also see the stand alone vi editor called vim at www.vim.org.
Seeking Research Assistants:
Graphic Artist -- to assist with developing graphics (diagrams, charts, graphics, photos, cartoons, etc.) for a book on the evolutionary psychology of sex differences.
Research Assistant / Editor -- do library research and summarize research studies.
A "heads up" -- we are entering a post "peak oil" world:
