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George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920–) Charleston, West Virginia, United States. American psychologist and innovator in the study of language and cognition. Helped establish psycholinguistics as an independent field of research in psychology. Married to Katherine James.
George Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, Virginia. Miller, was raised a Christian Scientist and lived with his parents until they divorced in 1927. In 1937, after graduating from Charleston High School, Miller moved to Washington D.C., with his mother and stepfather and enrolled in George Washington University for one year.
In 1938, Miller transferred to the University of Alabama where he met Katherine James, whom he married in 1939. Katherine introduced him to psychological science and to Donald A. Ramsdell, head of Alabama’s psychology department. Miller earned his master’s degree in 1941 from the Department of Speech. After graduation, Ramsdell offered him a position as a...
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Mancinelli-Franconi, I. (2012). Miller, George A.. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_361
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