Psychologists

George Miller

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Psychology Atlas. "George Miller." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://psychology.interactiveatlas.org/psychologists/george-miller.

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Psychology Atlas. (n.d.). George Miller. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://psychology.interactiveatlas.org/psychologists/george-miller

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@misc{psychologyatlas-george-miller,
  author = {Psychology Atlas},
  title = {George Miller},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://psychology.interactiveatlas.org/psychologists/george-miller},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

American cognitive psychologist and one of the founders of cognitive psychology and cognitive science; also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics and, later, to computational linguistics through the WordNet lexical database he directed at Princeton.

Facts

Birth Year

1920 1

Death Year

2012 1

Nationality / Culture

American 1

Defining Contribution

Published The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956), proposing that short-term memory and immediate judgment are limited to about seven meaningful chunks regardless of how much information each chunk carries, a founding result of the cognitive revolution in psychology. 1

Notable Work

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956) 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Studies Conducted

Miller's Magical Number Seven Experiments

Sources

1. Wikipedia: George Armitage Miller

Wikimedia FoundationWorking memory section

Quote, Working memory section

In 1956, Miller put a number on that limit in the paper 'The magical number seven, plus or minus two'.

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