EDUCATION

Swarthmore College 1968-1970

New York University 1970-1972, B.A., cum laude, psychology.

Harvard Graduate School of Education 1978-79, Ed.M., 1979-1988, Ed.D.

TEACHING

1993- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Salem State College, Salem, MA present 01970.

Teach undergraduate courses in Child Growth, Adolescent Psychology, Statistics and Experimentation and Cross-cultural Psychology. Teach graduate courses in The Nature of Adolescence, Infancy and Toddlerhood, Developmental Psychopathology, and the Contemporary Family.

1990- Instructor, Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 02114.

1993

Taught courses in Adult Development and Aging, Research Methods, Developmental Psychopathology and Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Psychology.

1989- Instructor, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02115.

1992

Taught course on Developmental Research Methods to juniors and seniors, and undergraduate/graduate course on Social Development.

1987- Instructor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 1993 02125.

Taught undergraduate courses in Infancy and Child Development, and Adolescence.

1982- Instructor, Graduate School, Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, Boston,

1988 MA 02215.

Spring,

Summers Taught Cognitive Growth in Young Children, and Infant and Toddler course.

RESEARCH

1994- Research Associate, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115

Conduct research with collaborators on aspects of the doctor-patient relationship (particularly attachment), on the hierarchical complexity of reasoning and how to measure it, on reasoning of doctors and patients about various issues surrounding treatment, and about the effects of early trauma on emotions.

1990-1994 Statistical Consultant, for Dr. Robert A. LeVine, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larsen Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138. (617) 495-3582.

Conducted statistical analyses of interview and observational data collected on Mexican mothers and infants. Wrote papers for presentation and publication.

1987- Associate Director, Dare Institute, 234 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA

02138-1328. (617) 497-5270.

Supervise the design and implementation of studies on attachment across the lifespan, the discrimination of emotion intensity in toddlers, peek-a-boo, and the effect of gender labels on toy preference. Consult on a study of cross-cultural moral and cognitive development in Mexico.

1982- Research Assistant II, Peer Interaction Project, Harvard Graduate School of

1985 Education, Cambridge, MA  02138. Directors: Dr. David Forbes and Dr. Mary Maxwell Katz (West)

Helped develop and implement multiple coding systems for videotaped playgroup interactions between 5, 7 and 9 year olds.  Supervised eight research assistants. 

1979- Research Assistant I, Comparative Human Infancy Project, Harvard Graduate

1982 School of Education, Cambridge, MA 02138. Director: Dr. Robert A. LeVine.

On a cross-cultural (Kenya and Boston) longitudinal study of infant development and caretakers' beliefs about and behavior toward infants, collaborated in designing and implementing coding systems for caregiver-infant interaction. Collected and analyzed data, wrote papers for presentation and for publication.

LANGUAGES

Portuguese: Speak, read and write fluently.

Spanish and French: Speak, read and write.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

Commons, M. L. & Miller, P. M. (1998). A quantitative behavior-analytic theory of development. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis.

Commons, M. L. & Miller, P. M. (1997). Review of: A Theory of Conceptual Intelligence (by Rex Li). Contemporary Psychology.

LeVine, R. A., Miller, P. M. & Richman, A. (1996). Influences of culture and schooling on mothers' models of infant care. In S. Harkness, C. M. Super, & R. New (Eds.), Parental ethnotheories: Their sociocultural origins and developmental consequences. New York: Guilford.

LeVine, R. A., Dixon, S., LeVine, S., Richman, A., Leiderman, P. H., Keefer, C. H. & Brazelton, T. B., with Caron, J., New, R., Miller, P., Tronick, E., Feigal, D. & Yaman, J. (1994). Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Demick, J. & Miller, P. M. (Eds.). (1993). Development in the workplace. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Miller, P. M. (1993). Mothers' and strangers' behavior with infants. In J. Demick, R. DiBiase & K. Bursick (Eds.). Parental development. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Richman, A. L., Miller, P. M. & LeVine, R. A. (1992). Cultural and educational variations in maternal responsiveness. Developmental Psychology, 28, 614-621.

LeVine, R. A., LeVine, S. E., Richman, A., Tapia Uribe, F. Medardo, Correa, C. S., & Miller, P. M. (1991). Women's schooling and child care in demographic transition: A Mexican case study. Population and Development Review, 17, 459-496.

LeVine, R. A., & Miller, P. M. (1990). Strange situations in other cultures: An anthropological view of infant-mother attachment. Human Development, 33, 73-80.

LeVine, R. A., Miller, P. M., & West, M. M. (1988). Parental behavior in diverse cultures. New Directions in Child Development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Richman, A., Miller, P. M., & Solomon, M. J. (1988). Infant care and maternal values in suburban Boston. In LeVine, R. A., Miller, P. M. and West, M. M. (Eds.), Parental behavior in diverse cultures. New Directions in Child Development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Miller, P. M. (1988). Two- and five-month old infants' differential behavior towards strangers and their mothers, and strangers' and mothers' behavior towards infants. Unpublished dissertation, Laboratory of Human Development, Harvard Graduate School of Education, May, 1988.

Miller, P. M., Danaher, D., & Forbes, D.  (1986). Sex-related strategies for coping with interpersonal conflict in children aged 5 and 7. Developmental Psychology, 22(4), 543-548.

Commons, M. L., Miller, P. M., & Kuhn, D.  (1982). The relation between formal operational reasoning and academic course selection and performance among college freshmen and sophomores.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 3, 1-10.

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION OR SUBMITTED

Commons, M. L. & Miller, P. M. (Being revised). Behavior-developmental view of psychological boundaries. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.

Miller, P. M., Commons, M. L., & Elliot, K. E. (Submitted to Child Development, currently being revised). The effect of vocally assigned gender labels on toy preferences of children ages 1-7.

Miller, P. M. (Submitted to Field, T. M. & Pelaez-Nogueras, M., Touch in Infancy. (being revised) Cultural and socioeconomic influences on mothers' touching in mother-infant interactions.

Miller, P. M. (To be submitted to The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry). Fears and environmental stressors in preschool children.

Miller, P. M., Lee, S. & Commons, M. L. Child and adult attachment and loss.

Miller, P. M. Young infants' differentiation between mothers and strangers: The case of crying and being consoled.

Miller, P. M., Richman, A., & LeVine, R. A. Maternal responsiveness and child cognitive development: A cross-cultural examination.

Miller, P. M., Ross, L., & Forbes, D. Getting to know you: self characterization in children as they become acquainted.

Miller, P. M., Commons, M. L., & Lobel, M. Development of infants' responses to peek-a-boo.

Miller, P. M., Li, J., & Commons, M. L. The scaling of the intensity of emotions by children and adults.

Presentations

Emmert, S., Macleod, M., Nicoli, M., Miller, P. M. & Zeren, A. (October, 1999). The relationship of personality, family background and family relationships to adolescent fatherhood and fathering behavior. Paper presented at New England Psychological Association, Hartford, CT.

Susanne T. Lee and Patrice Marie Miller (June, 1999). Types of attachment objects: How adults and children discuss their emotions about them. Presented at the Society for Research in Adult Development, Salem, MA.

Patrice Marie Miller and Susanne T. Lee (June, 1999). Developmental stages and transitions between stages in child and adult narratives about losses of attachment objects. Presented at the Society for Research in Adult Development, Salem, MA.

Patrice M. Miller and Michael L. Commons (June, 1999). Coding the stage of performance of the behavior of great apes using the general model of hierarchical complexity. Presented at the Piaget Society, Mexico City, Mexico.

Patrice Marie Miller (May, 1999). Scoring the stage of performance of the behavior of great apes using the general model of hierarchical complexity. Presented at The Association for Behavior Analysis, International, Orlando, FL.

Patrice Marie Miller, Miriam Chernoff, and Michael Lamport Commons (May, 1999). The evolution of abstract, formal operational and beyond formal operational stage reasoning in humans. Presented at The Association for Behavior Analysis, International, Orlando, FL.

Patrice Marie Miller (May 1998). Temperament and adult behavior as influences on infant behavior in interactions with mothers and strangers. Presented at The Association for Behavior Analysis, International, Orlando, FL.

Patrice Marie Miller and Michael Lamport Commons. (May, 1998). The biological basis of adult gender roles. Presented at The Association for Behavior Analysis, International, Orlando, FL.

Commons, M. L. & Miller, P. M. (February, 1998). Emotional learning in infants: A cross-cultural examination. Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, PA.

Miller, P. M. (April, 1998). The relationship between the fears of young children and stressful events during development. Invited paper at symposium entitled "Fears in Young Children", International Conference of Infancy Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Miller, P. M. (April, 1998). Environmental influences on the fears of young children. Poster presented at the Graduate School Research Symposium, Salem State College, Salem, MA.

Miller, P. M. (May, 1998). Organizer of symposium entitled "Environmental and biological explanations for individual differences in the development of behavior", presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando, FLA.

Miller, P. M. (May, 1988). Co-presenter of discussion group on "Doing Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions", Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando, FLA.

Chernoff, M. and Miller, P. M. (June, 1997). Adult behavior in great apes. Paper presented at the 12^th Annual Symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development, Boston, MA.

Miller, P. M. (May, 1997). Fears and environmental stressors in preschool children. Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.

Miller, P. M. (April, 1997). The effect of schooling on maternal behavior in low-income Mexican mothers. Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Miller, P. M. (April, 1996). Child care experience, stressors and fears in one-to-two year olds. International Conference for Infancy Studies. Providence, RI.

Chernoff, M. & Miller, P. M. (November, 1995). The relationship of changes in subsistence strategies, social organization and moral stages to developmental stage. Association for Moral Education, New York, NY.

Miller, P. M., Stetson, S. G., Attridge, J., Garuti, M., Mazzaglia, C., Peddle, D. Quarato, L., Umbriano, L., & Weiser, L. E. (May, 1995). Have the original gender-specific human roles evolved, or do they persist? Paper presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Washington, D.C..

Miller, P. M. & Commons, M. L. (May, 1995). Evolution, intelligence and developmental stage. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Washington, D.C.

Boucher, M., Gianareles, A., Wilkins, C. and Miller, P. M. (October, 1994). Parents' reports of their young children's fears. Paper presented at the New England Psychological 34^th Annual Meeting, Quinnipiac, College, Hamden, CT.

Miller, P. M. (1994, June). Individual differences in young infants' differentiation between strangers and mothers. Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, France.

Miller, P. M., Richman, A. L. & LeVine, R. A. (1994, June). A descriptive account of contingencies of reinforcement as represented in maternal behavior in three cultures. Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, France.

Miller, P. M., Reyes, G., Abrantes, A., & Commons, M. L. (1992, May). How children and adults discuss feelings of attachment and loss. Paper presented at the twenty-second annual symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal, Quebec.

Miller, P. M., LeVine, R. A., & Richman, A. L. (1992, May). Cross-cultural effects on maternal responsiveness and subsequent cognitive development. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Infancy Studies, Miami, FL.

LeVine, R. A., Miller, P. M., & Richman, A. (1991, April). Influences of culture and schooling on mothers' models of infant care. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.

Li, J., Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L. (1990, July). Adult and child attachment and loss. Paper presented at the Fifth Adult Development Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L. (1990, July). Stages of Attachment and Beneficence and the General Stage Model. Paper presented at the Fifth Adult Development Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Miller, P. M. (1990, April). Stranger and infant become acquainted. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference for Infancy Studies, Montreal.

Miller, P. M., Li, J., Whitton, L. Palkon, G., Commons, M. L., & Lubart, T. (1990, April). The scaling of the intensity of emotions by adults and children. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia.

Li, J., Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L. (1990, April). Attachment and loss in children and adults. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia.

Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L.  (1985, January).  What produces the most learning and development in a multi-cultural school.  Paper presented at Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico.

Grotzer, T. A., Robinson, T. L., Young, R. M., Davidson, M. N., Cohen, L., Rios, M. L., Eddy, S., Rodriguez, J. A., Lewis, T. S., Gauthier, A. M., Shapiro, J. M., Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L.  (1985, June). The role of repeated presentation of a formal operational problem, feedback, and social reward: An examination of Piaget's equilibration theory of stage transition.  Paper presented at The Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia.

Miller, P. M., New, R. S., & Richman, A. L.  (1982, April). Social ecology of infant development in Italy and America.  International Conference on Infant Studies, Austin.

Richman, A. L., Miller, P. M., & Solomon, M.  (1982, December). The anthropologist comes home: The socialization of American infants. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

Caron, J. W., & Miller, P. M. (1981, March).  Effects of infant characteristics on caretaker responsiveness among the Gusii.  Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston.

Lobel, M., Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L.  (1981a, March).  The development of infants' responses to peek-a-boo.  Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston.

Commons, M. L., Miller, P. M., & Krupa, M. P. (1978, May).  The relation between formal operational reasoning in college freshmen and sophomores and their academic program selection and performance.  Presented to the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia.

Miller, P. M., & Commons, M. L.  (1973a, March). The development of toy preferences as determined by external sex labels.  Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.