Rate My Professor Jeremy Miller

Jeremy Miller is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Willamette University, where he joined the faculty in 2005. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Cognitive Psychology in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 2005 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Throughout his career, Miller has focused on cognitive psychology, contributing significantly to the understanding of human memory mechanisms.

Miller's research examines the interaction between memory and perceptual systems, including how perceptual fluency—the speed and ease with which stimuli are processed—influences memory decisions and the formation of representations of the physical world. His interests encompass revelation effects in remembering, forecasting, and perspective taking; selective attention in spontaneous recognition memory; self-projection in episodic memory, prospection, and theory of mind; fluency and distinctiveness heuristics; reproducibility in psychological science; and large-scale collaborative studies on topics such as COVID-19 emotional interventions, social perception, and error correction. He has published extensively, with over 8,800 citations, including key papers such as "Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science" (2015), "Revelation effects in remembering, forecasting, and perspective taking" (2017), "Selective attention meets spontaneous recognition memory: Evidence for effects at retrieval" (2017), "The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network" (2018), "A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2022), "In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries" (2022), and "The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned from Cognitive Science" (2026). Miller participates in major initiatives like the Many Labs replications and Psychological Science Accelerator, enhancing replicability and global collaboration in psychology. He teaches introductory psychology, cognitive processes, statistics, and research methods, and leads the Willamette University Memory & Cognition Lab, a student-centered group employing data-driven, open-source approaches to cognitive science questions.