Neal E. Miller

Neal Elgar Miller (August 3, 1909 – March 23, 2002) was an American

Miller's career in psychology started with research on "fear as a learned drive and its role in conflict".

Miller was also one of the founding fathers behind the idea of biofeedback. Today, many of his ideas have been expanded and added to, but Miller has been credited with coming up with most of the basic ideas behind biofeedback. Miller was doing experimentation on conditioning and rats when he discovered biofeedback.^{[citation needed]}

Neal Miller, along with

Over the course of his career, Miller wrote eight books and 276 papers and articles.[9] Neal Miller worked with John Dollard and together they wrote the book Personality and Psychotherapy (1950) concerning neurosis and psychological learning concepts.^[12]

Controversy

Miller's use of laboratory animals brought criticism from the animal rights movement but he defended the practice, arguing that if people had no right to use animals in research, then they had no right to kill them for food or clothing. He nevertheless acknowledged the complexity of the issue; "there is sacredness of all life. But where do we draw the line? That's the problem. Cats kill birds and mice. Dogs exploit other animals by killing and eating them. Humans have to draw the line somewhere in animal rights, or we're dead."^[13]

Honours

In 1958, Miller was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.^[14] Miller served as president of the American Psychological Association from 1960–61, and received the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 1959 and the APA Citation for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology in 1991. In 1964 he received the National Medal of Science from President Johnson, the first psychologist to receive this honor.^[15] Miller is a distinguished member of PSI CHI International Honor Society for Psychology. In 1967, he received the Wilbur Cross Medal. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.^[16][17]

He was also President of the Society for Neurosciences, the Biofeedback Society of America and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.^{[citation needed]}

Major works

Books

• OCLC 256003
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• Miller, Neal E;
  OCLC 180843
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• Miller, Neal E. (1947). Psychological research on pilot training. Aviation psychology program research reports. Vol. 8. Washington, DC:
  OCLC 1473614
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• OCLC 964374
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• Miller, Neal E. (1957). Graphic communication and the crisis in education. Washington, DC: Department of Audio-Visual Instruction,
  OCLC 242913
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• Miller, Neal E. (1971). Neal E. Miller: selected papers. Psychonomic perspectives. Chicago: Aldine, Atherton.
  OCLC 133865
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  • Miller, Neal E. (2007) [1971]. Learning, motivation, and their physiological mechanisms. New Brunswick, NJ.: AldineTransaction.
    OCLC 144328310
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  • Miller, Neal E. (2008) [1971]. Conflict, displacement, learned drives, and theory. New Brunswick, NJ: AldineTransaction.
    OCLC 156810019
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• Richter-Heinrich, Elisabeth; Miller, Neal E., eds. (1982). Biofeedback: basic problems and clinical applications. Selected revised papers presented at the XXIInd International Congress of Psychology, Leipzig, GDR, July 6–12, 1980. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
  OCLC 10751840
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• doi:10.1080/00223980.1940.9917694
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• Miller, Neal E.; Bugelski, Richard (1948). "Minor studies of aggression: II. The influence of frustrations imposed by the in-group on attitudes expressed toward out-groups". The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied. 25 (2): 437–442.
  PMID 18907295
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• Miller, Neal E. (February 1948). "Studies of fear as an acquirable drive: I. Fear as motivation and fear-reduction as reinforcement in the learning of new responses".
  PMID 18910262
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• Miller, Neal E. (September 1951). "Comments on theoretical models: illustrated by the development of a theory of conflict behavior".
  PMID 14898432
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• Miller, Neal E. (20 December 1957). "Experiments on motivation: studies combining psychological, physiological, and pharmacological techniques".
  PMID 13495454
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• Miller, Neal E. (16 April 1965). "Chemical coding of behavior in the brain".
  S2CID 32100966
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• Miller, Neal E. (31 January 1969). "Learning of visceral and glandular responses".
  PMID 5812527
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• Weiss, Jay M.; Glazer, Howard I.; Pohorecky, Larissa A.; Brick, John; Miller, Neal E. (December 1975). "Effects of chronic exposure to stressors on avoidance-escape behavior and on brain norepinephrine".
  S2CID 21404657
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• Miller, Neal E. (1978). "Biofeedback and visceral learning".
  PMID 341785
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• Miller, Neal E. (April 1985). "The value of behavioral research on animals".
  PMID 3890636
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• PMID 8169577
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