Neal E. Miller
Neal Elgar Miller ( born August 3, 1909 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † March 23, 2002 in Hamden, Connecticut) was an American psychologist and a pioneer in biofeedback research.
Life
Miller received in 1931 a Bachelor of Science from the University of Washington, 1932 Master of Stanford University and in 1935 the Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University. After a year of research at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Vienna in 1936, he returned back to Yale, where he studied for 30 years and taught. During the Second World War, he was a senior officer of the Psychological Research Unit # 1 of the Army Air Corps in Nashville, Tennessee, then director of the Psychological research project of the Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. He spent 15 years as a professor at Rockefeller University in New York City, where he retired in 1981. In the early 1970s he taught at the same time at the Medical College of Cornell University. From 1985, he again led by research projects at Yale University.
He died at aged 92 in a retirement home in Hamden (Connecticut) and is survived by his second wife Jean Shepler and two children.
Miller was instrumental in the development of biofeedback. He discovered that even the autonomic nervous system for classical conditioning is susceptible.
Miller wrote eight books and nearly 300 journal articles. 1960 to 1961 he was president of the American Psychological Association. In 1964 he received the National Medal of Science from the hand of U.S. President Johnson.
His most famous student is Philip Zimbardo.
Writings
- Frustration and aggression.
- Social Learning and Imitation. Yale University Press, New Haven 1964.
- Personality and Psychotherapy.
- Graphic Communication and the Crisis in Education.
- Selected Papers on Learning, Motivation and Their Physiological Mechanisms. MW Books, Chicago, Aldine, Atherton 1971, ISBN 0202250385th
- Conflict, Displacement, Learned Drives and Theory. Aldine, ISBN 9,780,202,361,420th
Papers
- With R. Bugelski: Minor studies in aggression: The influence of frustrations imposed by the in-group on attitudes overexpressed by the out-group. In: Journal of Psychology. 25, 1948, pp. 437-442.