Michael Miller
Mike is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where he teaches courses on graduate statistics, emotion and communication, biological psychology, and experimental design. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Connecticut and a master’s in interpersonal communication from the University of Wisconsin system.
Dr. Miller’s research explores the emotional and communicative undercurrents of human interaction, including touch hunger, nonverbal expression, and interpersonal resonance. He has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles in Personal Relationships, Telematics and Informatics, Computers in Human Behavior, and the International Journal of Psychological Studies, and has contributed chapters to volumes such as the APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication and The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication.
As an educator and collaborator, Miller has worked across more than ten institutions in diverse roles, consistently supporting student-centered research and mentoring undergraduate and graduate scholars. His recent projects examine the ethical and cognitive dimensions of AI-human communication, including a multi-institutional grant exploring AI-generated scientific summaries to support emotion regulation in ADHD readers.
He is also co-founder of Una Mens, a journal dedicated to reflective, cross-disciplinary inquiry into emerging communication forms.
Lastly, in November of 2025 Mike shared some of his emergent perspectives on AI with Clark University's Melissa Hanson, Host of the podcast Challenge. Change.