Publications
Williams, R., Citkowicz, M., Miller, D. I., Lindsay, J., & Walters, K. (2022). Heterogeneity in mathematics intervention effects: Evidence from a meta-analysis of 191 randomized experiments. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 15(3), 584-634. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2021.2009072 [R code and data]
Miller, D. I., Pinerua, I., Margolin, J., & Gerdeman, D. (2022). Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics and science: A cross-disciplinary synthesis of recent DRK-12 projects. American Institutes for Research.
Witherspoon, E., Miller, D. I., Pinerua, I., & Gerdeman, D. (2022). Mathematical and scientific argumentation in PreK-12: A cross-disciplinary synthesis of recent DRK-12 projects. American Institutes for Research.
Eagly, A. H., Nater, C., Miller, D. I., Kaufmann, M., & Sczesny, S. (2020). Gender stereotypes have changed: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of U.S. public opinion polls from 1946 to 2018. American Psychologist, 75(3), 301–315. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000494 [R code and data]
- Media coverage (selected): Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Newsweek, Pacific Standard Magazine, Psychology Today, USA Today
Miller, D. I. (2019). When do growth mindset interventions work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(11), 910-912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.08.005 [link to preprint]
Miller, D. I., Nolla, K. M., Eagly, A. H., & Uttal, D. H. (2018). The development of children’s gender-science stereotypes: A meta-analysis of five decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist studies. Child Development, 89(6), 1943-1955. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13039 [R code and data]
- My writing: I wrote this article in Scientific American about the study.
- Media coverage (selected): ABC News, BBC News, Chicago Tribune, CNET, CNN, Education Week, Fortune, Mashable, Nature, NBC News, New York Times, Newsweek, Science, Science News, Smithsonian, TIME, The Atlantic, Washington Post
- I was also interviewed twice on radio for BBC World Service
- The study also received national TV coverage on ABC News (see 16-second clip here).
- The syndicated news company, Ivanhoe Broadcast News, produced a 90-second TV news clip for an initiative that reached more than 40 million viewers on average.
Atit, K., Miller, D. I., Newcombe, N. S., & Uttal, D. H. (2018). Teachers’ spatial skills across disciplines and education levels: Exploring nationally representative data. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 6(1), 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1037/arc0000041 [Supplemental materials]
Hsu, K. J., Rosenthal, A. M., Miller, D. I., & Bailey, J. M. (2017). Sexual arousal patterns of autogynephilic male cross-dressers. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 247-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0826-z
- I was the statistical expert on multilevel modelling for this study.
Eagly, A. H., & Miller, D. I. (2016). Scientific eminence: Where are the women? Perspectives in Psychological Science, 11, 899-904. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616663918
Hsu, K. J., Rosenthal, A. M., Miller, D. I., & Bailey, J. M. (2016). Who are gynandromorphophilic men? Characterizing men with sexual interest in transgender women. Psychological Medicine, 46, 819–827. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715002317
- I was the statistical expert on multilevel modelling for this study.
Miller, D. I., Eagly, A. H., & Linn, M. C. (2015). Women’s representation in science predicts national gender-science stereotypes: Evidence from 66 nations. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107, 631-644. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000005 [R code and data]
- 50+ citations according to Google Scholar.
- Profiled by Science magazine (over 2,300 Facebook shares)
- My writing: I wrote this popular press article about the study for The Conversation.
- Media coverage (selected): APA Monitor, Ars Technica, Business Standard (Indian outlet), Dutch News (Dutch outlet), eldario.es (Spanish outlet; written in Spanish), LabOnline (Australian outlet), Northwestern University (press release), Ozy, Pacific Standard, Quartz, scientias.nl (Dutch outlet; written in Dutch), The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand outlet), U.S. News, Yahoo News
Miller, D. I., & Wai, J. (2015). The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: A 30-year analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 36. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00037
- Profiled by Nature News (over 3,500 Facebook shares)
- My writing: I wrote this op-ed for Inside Higher Ed about why we should end the “leaky pipeline” metaphor for explaining the low numbers of women in science and engineering.
- Media coverage (selected): Chicago Tribune, Live Science, Northwestern University (press release), Quartz, Science, The Guardian, U.S. News, Yahoo News
Miller, D. I., & Halpern, D. F. (2014). The new science of cognitive sex differences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 37-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.011
- 200+ citations according to Google Scholar.
Miller, D. I., & Halpern, D. F. (2013). Can spatial training improve long-term outcomes for gifted STEM undergraduates? Learning and Individual Differences, 26, 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2012.03.012
- 50+ citations according to Google Scholar.
- Media coverage: Association for Psychological Science Observer, Psychology Today
Uttal, D. H., Miller, D. I., & Newcombe, N. S. (2013). Exploring and enhancing spatial thinking: Links to STEM achievement? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 367-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721413484756
- 50+ citations according to Google Scholar.
- Media coverage: Global Cognition, KQED MindShift, Quartz
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Lakkaraju, H., Aguiar, E., Shan, C., Miller, D. I., Bhanpuri, N., Ghani, R., & Addison, K. L. (2015). A machine learning framework to identify students at risk of adverse academic outcomes. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Sydney, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery.
Aguiar, E., Lakkaraju, H., Bhanpuri, N., Miller, D. I., Yuhas, B., Addison, K., … , Ghani, R. (2015). Who, when, why: A machine learning approach to prioritizing students at risk of not graduating high school on time. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. Poughkeepsie, NY: Society for Learning Analytics Research.
Matuk, C. F., McElhaney, K. W., Miller, D. I., Chen, J. K., Lim-Breitbart, J., Terashima, H., … , Linn, M. C. (2013). Reflectively prototyping a tool for exchanging ideas. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (pp. 101-104). Madison, WI: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Matuk, C. F., McElhaney, K. W., Chen, J. K., Miller, D. I., Lim-Breitbart, J., & Linn, M. C. (2012). The Idea Manager: A tool to scaffold students in documenting, sorting, and distinguishing ideas during science inquiry. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Sydney, Australia: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
McElhaney, K. W., Matuk, C. F., Miller, D. I., & Linn, M. C. (2012). Using the Idea Manager to promote coherent understanding of inquiry investigations. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Sydney, Australia: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Miller, D. I., & Halpern, D. F. (2011). Spatial thinking in physics: Longitudinal impacts of 3-D spatial training. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3465-3470). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [This research was turned into a full-length journal article]
Popular Press
Miller, D. I. (2018, March 20). Kids draw female scientists more often than they did decades ago. Scientific American.
Miller, D. I. (2017, February 1). Stereotypes can hold boys back in school, too. The Conversation.
- Republished by Associated Press and Quillette.
Miller, D. I. (2016, June 15). LGBT equality doesn’t exist – but here’s how to fight for it. The Conversation.
- Republished by Associated Press and Raw Story.
Miller, D. I. (2016, February 4). Intersectionality: how gender interacts with other social identities to shape bias. The Conversation.
Wai, J., & Miller, D. I. (2015, December 1). Here’s why academics should write for the public. The Conversation.
- 20,000+ page views across original and republishing outlets including Huffington Post and Quartz.
Miller, D. I. (2015, October 13). Men and women biased about studies of STEM gender bias – in opposite directions. The Conversation.
- Discusses a PNAS study showing men, especially those in STEM, are less likely to believe the evidence of gender bias against women in science. Women are also biased against gender bias research, but in the opposite direction.
- 15,000+ page views across original and republishing outlets including IFL Science.
Miller, D. I. (2015, July 10). Tech companies spend big money on bias training—but it hasn’t improved diversity numbers. The Conversation.
- Discusses why bias training hasn’t been changing diversity in tech and how to fix that problem using the latest psychological research.
- Republished by Business Insider and recrafted for U.S. News.
Miller, D. I. (2015, June 9). Beliefs about innate talent may dissuade students from STEM. The Conversation.
- Reports on a nationally representative, longitudinal study finding that self-perceived abilities and growth mindsets predict who enters math-intensive majors.
- 50,000+ page views across original and republishing outlets including IFL Science and U.S. News.
Miller, D. I. (2015, May 28). Most people think ‘man’ when they think ‘scientist’ – how can we kill the stereotype? The Conversation.
- Discusses my international study on gender-science stereotypes.
- 10,000+ page views across original and republishing outlets including Christian Science Monitor, Quartz, Raw Story, and The New Zealand Herald.
Miller, D. I. (2015, April 16). Some good news about hiring women in STEM doesn’t erase sex bias issue. The Conversation.
- Discusses a PNAS study finding that scientists prefer to hire women over men among highly qualified tenure-track applicants.
- 25,000+ page views across original and republishing outlets including Quartz.
Miller, D. I. (2015, March 3). A metaphor to retire. Inside Higher Ed.
- Discusses my study on gender gaps in doctoral persistence. The results challenge the “leaky pipeline” narrative commonly used to explain the low numbers of women in science and engineering.