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Lisa Miller
Associate Professor of Human Development
http://adl.ucdavis.edu
At UCD since:2005
Interests: Cognitive, Social-Emotional, Health
Life Phases: Adulthood, Aging
E-mail: lmsmiller@ucdavis.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Miller is interested in examining how knowledge and motivation support cognition in later life, particularly within the areas of language comprehension and memory, information processing, and decision making. She is also interested in health and nutrition literacy and investigates ways to increase effective health information processing and decision making across adulthood.
Selected Publications
Miller, L.M.S., Gibson, T. N., Applegate, E., & de Dios, J. (2011). Mechanisms underlying comprehension of health information in adulthood: The roles of prior knowledge and working memory capacity. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 794-806.
Miller, L.M.S. & Bell, A. R. (2012). Online health information-seeking: The influence of age, ease of search, and information trustworthiness, Journal of Aging and Health, 24, 525-541.
Miller, L.M.S. & Cassady, D.L. (2012). Making Healthy Food Choices Using Nutrition Facts Panels: The roles of knowledge, motivation, dietary modifications goals, and age. Appetite, 59, 129–139.
Miller, L. M. S. (2010). Cognitive and motivational factors support health literacy and acquisition of new health information in later life. California Agriculture: Special Issue on Aging, 64, 189-194
Miller, L. M. S., Gibson, T. N., & Applegate, E. (2010). Predictors of nutrition information comprehension in adulthood. Patient Education and Counseling, 80, 107-112.
Miller, L. M. S. & West, R. L. (2010). Self-regulation of reading in adulthood: The role of age and control beliefs. Experimental Aging Research, 36, 40-63.
Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Miller, L. M. S. (2009). Aging, self-regulation, and learning from text. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 51), 255-296.
Miller, L. M. S. (2009). Age differences in the effects of domain knowledge on reading efficiency. Psychology and Aging, 29, 63-74.
Morrow, D. G., Miller, L. M. S., Ridolfo, H., Magnor, C., Fisher, U., Kokayeff, N., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2008). Expertise and age differences in pilot decision making. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15, 1-23.
Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Miller, L. M. S., Gagne, D. D., & Hertzog, C. (2008). Self-Regulated Reading in Adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 23, 131-153.
Miller, L. M. S. & Gagne, D. D. (2008). Adult age differences in reading and rereading processes associated with problem solving, International Journal of Behavioral Development 32, 34-45.
