TEDxABQ - Geoffrey Miller - Evolution & Conspicuous Consumption May 18, 2011

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Geoffrey Miller is a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He researches human nature, focusing on sexual selection, mate choice, intelligence, creativity, personality, behavior genetics, mental illness and consumer behavior. His paper "Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap-dancers" won the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics at Harvard. Miller has consulted on human nature for some of the world's leading consumer goods companies and advertising agencies. He is the author of The Mating Mind, Mating Intelligence and Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior.

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