Research Week: Keynote Talk – Deciding what to believe

Keynote talk, February 26th, 1.30pm-2.30pm, Cobden Hall

Professor Tyler Miller (Associate Professor of Psychology, South Dakota State University: ‘Deciding what to believe: How credibility and consistency shape our confidence’

Tyler Miller is an Associate Professor of Psychology at South Dakota State University. He also serves as the Associate Academic Director for the School of Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies. Miller has been recognized for outstanding teaching with the Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Teaching Excellence and is a research fellow in the Psychonomic Society. Miller has also led multiple international education abroad programs and successful interdisciplinary initiatives, including program evaluation efforts funded by the National Science Foundation and for campus and community events in the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College at SDSU. His psychology research has received Association for Psychological Science and National Endowment for the Arts funding. Miller earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology with an emphasis in behavioural neuroscience. He earned a Psychology Ph.D. with a cognitive psychology focus from Texas A&M University.