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Associate Professor
Psychology Department
Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Office: University Hall, Room 4757
Office hours:
Tu: 12:30 - 2:00; Wed: 10:00 - 5:00 (by appt); Thursday 10:00 - 2:00
Summer office hours: By appointment
Phone: (310) 338-3017
Email: memills@gmail.com Note: 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). |
Other Websites: 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. | | Editing with Vi. If you are a vi editor addict like me, and have been looking for a vi
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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: Website visitor locations (since August, 2008): 
I support free, online access to scientific research journals. For example, see:
(c) Copyright 2011 Michael E. Mills
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