Millar

Faculty

Murray G. Millar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Program:

Experimental

Website:

http://faculty.unlv.edu/millar/millar.html

Email:

millar@unlv.nevada.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0179

Accepting Graduate Students 2008-2009: YES

Research Interests

Murray Millar's research addresses a couple of questions. First, how do persons think about health behavior? To answer this question he is identifying the feelings and beliefs that persons implicitly associate with a variety of health behaviors. Ultimately, he hopes to use these implicit associations to develop effective strategies to promote health behavior. Second, how do contextual or situational variables influence mate selection? To answer this question he is exploring the impact of relationship length, parental choice, and dominance on sexual desirability. He hopes to integrate these contextual variables into an evolutionary explanation of attraction. In addition to these questions, Dr. Millar is willing to collaborate with students on a wide range of social psychology topics, including aggression, persuasion, and altruism.

Dr. Millar's 1986 Ph.D. is in social psychology from the University of Georgia. He teaches courses in social psychology and research methodology.

Selected Publications

Millar, M. G. (2007). The influence of public self-consciousness and anger on aggressive driving. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 2116-2126.

Millar, M. G. & Houska, J. (2007). Masculinity and intentions to perform health behaviors: The Effectiveness of Fear Control Arguments. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 30, 21-35.

Millar, M. G. & Ostlund, N. (2006). The effects of a parenting prime on sex differences in mate selection criteria. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1459-1469.

Millar, M. G. (2006). Responses to messages about health behaviors: The Influence of Repressive Coping. Psychology & Health, 21, 231-247.

Millar, M. G. (2005). The effects of stress on reactions to messages designed to increase health behaviors. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 28, 1-8.

Millar, M. G. (2005). Effects of activities analysis and reasons analysis on intentions to perform health promotion and disease detection behaviors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 1-14.