Summary
Monica Miller is a Foundation Professor with a split appointment between the Department of Criminal w88 sports betting app and the interdisciplinary Social Psychology Ph.D. program. She is also an adjunct faculty at the Grant Sawyer Center for w88 sports betting app Studies and an affiliate of the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity.
w88 sports betting app received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Nebraska College of Law and her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Her interests involve the application of psychological theories and w88 sports betting app principles to laws and policies. Specifically, she is interested in social cognitive biases (i.e., gender and religion-based prejudice) and individual differences in moral and legal decisions (e.g., jury decisions); how the law regulates the family; how community sentiment and science relate to the law; juror responses to hate crimes and conspiracy theories; and the well-being of those who interact with the legal system (including the use of therapy dogs).
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Selected publications
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Books
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Yelderman, L. A., Huss, M. T., & Cantone, J. A. (Eds.) (2024). The Cambridge handbook of legal decision making. Cambridge w88 sports betting app Press.
- w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2024). The social science of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A call to action for researchers. Oxford w88 sports betting app Press.
- w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2023).The social science of QAnon: A new social and political phenomenon. Cambridge w88 sports betting app Press.
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Blumenthal, J. A., & Chamberlain, J. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of community sentiment. Springer.
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Chamberlain, J., & Wingrove, T. (Eds.). (2014). Psychology, law, and the wellbeing of children. Oxford w88 sports betting app Press.
- Bornstein, B. H., & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2009). God in the courtroom: Religion’s role at trial. Oxford w88 sports betting app Press.
Journal articles
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Giannetta, T. S., Cunius, M. K.,& w88 sports betting app, M. K. (under review). A qualitative study investigating people’s lay theories and stereotypes about hate crimes
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Fine, A., w88 sports betting app, M. K., &McDermott, C. M. (2024). Interviewee lay theories and social categorization of robot therapy dogs. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society,20(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.18848/1832-3669/CGP/v20i01/17-33
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Cunius, M. K., & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2023). The effects of an apology’s timing and type on parole board decision-making.Criminal w88 sports betting app Studies, 36 (1), 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2023.218230
- Meyer, A. R., McDermott, C. M., w88 sports betting app, M. K., & Marsh, S. (2022). Judges’ perceptions of facility dogs in the courtroom.Juvenile and Family Court Journal,73, 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfcj.12214
- Kirshenbaum, J. M., & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2020). Judges’ experiences with mitigating jurors’ implicit biases. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1837029
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Clark, J., & Alvarez, M. J. (2020). Exploring the boundaries of societally acceptable bias expression toward Muslim and atheist defendants in four mock-juror experiments. The Social Science Journal. doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2019.09.004
- DeVault, A. & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2019). Justification-suppression and normative window of prejudice as determinants of bias toward lesbians, gays, and bisexual adoption applicants. Journal of Homosexuality, 66, 465-486. org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1414497
- Edwards, C. P., & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2019). An assessment of judges’ self-reported experiences of secondary traumatic stress. Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 70, 7-29. org/10.1111/jfcj.12134.
- Wood, S. M., DeVault, A., w88 sports betting app, M. K., Kemmelmeier, M., & Summers, A. D. (2019). Decision-making in civil litigation: effects of attorney credibility, evidence strength, and juror cognitive processing. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 10.1111/jasp.12600
- West, M. P., Yelderman, L., & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2018). Gender differences in the evaluation of aggravating and mitigating circumstances: The mediating role of attributional complexity. Psychology, Crime and Law, 24, 761-789. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2018.1438432
- Yelderman, L. A., w88 sports betting app, M. K., Forsythe, S., Sicafuse, L. (2018). Understanding crime control theater: Do sample type, gender and emotions relate to support for crime control theater policies? Criminal w88 sports betting app Review.
- Alvarez, M. A., & w88 sports betting app, M. K. (2016). Counterfactual thinking about crime control theater: Mock jurors decision-making in an AMBER Alert trial. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 22, 349-361. doi: 10.1037/law0000098
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Lindsey, S. C., & Kaufman, J. (2014). The religious conversion and race of a prisoner: Mock parole board members' decisions, perceptions, and emotions. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 19, 104-130. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.2012.02063.x
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Wood, S., & Chomos, J. C. (2014). Relationships between support for the death penalty and cognitive processing: A comparison of students and community members. Criminal w88 sports betting app and Behavior, 41, 731-750. doi: 10.1177/0093854813509369
- Sigillo, A., w88 sports betting app, M. K., & Weiser, D. (2012). Attitudes toward non-traditional women using IVF: The importance of political affiliation and religious characteristics. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 4, 249-263. doi:10.1037/a0027940
- w88 sports betting app, M. K., Maskaly, J., Green, M., & Peoples, C. D. (2011). The effects of deliberations and religious identity on mock jurors' verdicts. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14, 517-532. doi:10.1177/1368430210377458
- Reichert, J., w88 sports betting app, M. K., Bornstein, B. H., & Shelton, D. (2011). How reason for surgery and juror bias against overweight patients affect verdicts in medical malpractice trials. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 29, 395-418. doi:10.1002/bsl.969
- Jehle, A., w88 sports betting app, M. K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2009). The influence of accounts and remorse on mock jurors' judgments of offenders. Law and Human Behavior, 33, 393-404. doi:10.1007/s10979-008-9164-6.
Ph.D. students
Education
- Certificate (2021) Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (w88 sports betting app Pittsburgh)
- Certificate (2004) Public Policy and Program Evaluation (w88 sports betting app Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Ph.D. (2004) Social psychology (w88 sports betting app Nebraska-Lincoln Law-Psychology Program)
Doctoral dissertation: Use of Religious Appeals in Closing Arguments: Policy Implications for Judges and Policy-makers - J.D. (2002) Juris Doctorate of law (w88 sports betting app Nebraska College of Law)
- M.A. (2002) Social psychology (w88 sports betting app Nebraska-Lincoln)
Thesis: Self-Concept Regulating Mechanisms and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Programs - B.A. Distinction (1998) Psychology; Minors: Sociology, English (w88 sports betting app Nebraska-Lincoln)