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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: Sep 01, 2010

Testimonial for and Reminiscences about Neal Miller

PhD
Page Range: 93 – 97
DOI: 10.5298/1081-5937-38.3.93
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Abstract

The author served as a research assistant with Neal Miller at Yale from 1955 to 1959. He narrates Miller's research activities on social learning and imitation, on personality and psychotherapy, and on brain structures mediating biological drives and rewards. He describes Miller's classroom teaching and relationships with graduate students. He pays tribute to Miller's encouragement for Bower's own research, and the life lessons and scientific lessons he provided for many of his students and young researchers.

Keywords: Neal Miller; biography; social learning; animal learning; psychotherapy
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Copyright: Association for Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback
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Figure 1

Neal Miller at his office desk in a typical research discussion with Gordon Bower circa 1957 when Bower was a graduate student.

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Neal Miller and Gordon Bower testing one of their rats demonstrating the dual reward-punishment effect from stimulating the same spot in the limbic system. See text for explanation.

Contributor Notes

Correspondence: Gordon Bower, PhD, 750 Mayfield Avenue, Stanford, CA 94305, e-mail: gbower@stanford.edu.