Miriam Brinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 132985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Brinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Brinberg |
| SIGNATURE | BRINBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5202-9292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Digital Communication in Parent-Emerging Adult Relationships: Balancing Autonomy and Connection
This study examined parent-emerging adult digital communication from a relational maintenance perspective. Our goal was to understand how relational maintenance behaviors enacted via digital communication are related to the emerging adult’s autonomy from and connection with parents. We examined the frequency of parent-initiated digital communication, the perceived reasons for communication, and whether parenting characteristics served as moderato…
How are Conversations via an On-Demand Peer-To-Peer Emotional Well-Being App Associated with Emotional Improvement
Non-clinical, on-demand peer-to-peer (PtP) support apps have become increasingly popular over the past several years. Although not as pervasive as general self-help apps, these PtP support apps are usually free and instantly connect individuals through live texting with a non-clinical volunteer who has been minimally trained to listen and offer support. To date, there is little empirical work that examines whether and how using an on-demand PtP s…
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture
Research on educational television has overwhelmingly investigated the impact of viewing on children’s knowledge acquisition. However, this content might influence other important outcomes, such as children’s interest in learning about new topics. To investigate this possibility, we invited parents of 3- to 8-year-old children (N = 83) to answer three surveys over 1 month. The first survey included a video encouraging families to view a popular s…
The Impact of Attachment Style on Communication Frequency and Language Use in Romantic Partners’ Text Messages
This study examines the association between attachment style and text message behaviors using the text message history of 40 early-stage college student daters. Actor-partner interdependence models revealed an association between avoidant attachment and decreased texting frequency, but not an association between anxious attachment and texting frequency. Further, anxiously attached individuals utilized more future focused language in their text me…
A building block for science talk: Educational TV supports parent–child conversations during an engineering activity
We investigated the impact of parents' open-ended questions during collaborative science activities. Specifically, we randomly assigned 116 parents (69.8% mothers; 89.7% White) and their 4- to 7-year-old children (50.9% girls; 87.9% White) to watch science television before or after completing an engineering activity. Using sequence analysis, we examined the conversational exchanges elicited by parents' open-ended questions. Two patterns emerged:…
Campaign-Induced Interpersonal Communication: Identifying Turn Types and Exploring Their Interdependencies
Media campaigns produce effects when audience members discuss the campaign messages. Fundamental to the understanding of how talk bridges exposure and effect is a knowledge of its content. However, prior attempts to measure talk content have largely been limited to gross characteristics of the interactions. We argue that advances in this line of research require representing post-exposure talk as campaign-induced interpersonal communication (CIC)…
Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation
A Screenshot Vignette Study of Caregiver Perceptions of Adolescent Digital Dating Abuse
Recent national data show that approximately three-quarters of adolescents experience digital dating abuse (DDA). Caregivers' perceptions and knowledge of online risk behaviors are important points of prevention and intervention, yet little is known about how caregivers view adolescent DDA and whether they can recognize DDA in complex interactions (e.g., DDA behaviors interwoven with positive relational behaviors). An ethnic/racial and gender-div…
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use
Descriptions of moment-by-moment changes in attention contribute critical elements to theory and practice about how people process media. We introduce a new concept called screenertia and use new screen-capture methodology to empirically evaluate its occurrence. We unobtrusively obtained 400,000+ screenshots of 30 participants’ laptop screens every 5 seconds for 4 days to examine individuals’ attention to their screens and how the distribution of…
Linking stress to the emergence of relational turbulence in marriage
The assumption that stress negatively impacts marital relationships is widely accepted; however, the majority of research has focused on marital satisfaction as the outcome of interest. Relational turbulence is a quality of romantic associations on par with—but distinct from—satisfaction, in which partners conceptualize their relationship as chaotic or tumultuous. This paper draws on relational turbulence theory (RTT) and stress spillover researc…
Conceptualizing and Examining Change in Communication Research
Communication research often focuses on processes of communication, such as how messages impact individuals over time or how interpersonal relationships develop and change. Despite their importance, these change processes are often implicit in much theoretical and empirical work in communication. Intensive longitudinal data are becoming increasingly feasible to collect and, when coupled with appropriate analytic frameworks, enable researchers to …
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation
Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions
This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication
This article articulates conceptual and methodological strategies for studying the dynamic structure of dyadic interaction revealed by the turn-to-turn exchange of messages between partners. Using dyadic time series data that capture partners’ back-and-forth contributions to conversations, dynamic dyadic systems analysis illuminates how individuals act and react to each other as they jointly construct conversations. Five layers of inquiry are off…
The idiosyncrasies of everyday digital lives: Using the Human Screenome Project to study user behavior on smartphones
Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations: A Typology of Speaking Turns and Their Contingencies
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages
The digital text traces left by computer-mediated communication (CMC) provide a new opportunity to test theories of relational processes that were originally developed through observation of face-to-face interactions. Communication accommodation theory, for example, suggests that conversation partners' verbal (and non-verbal) behaviors become more similar as relationships develop. Using a corpus of 1+ million text messages that 41 college-age rom…
Using technology to unobtrusively observe relationship development
Texting plays an increasingly important role in romantic relationships. Along with the increased use and impact of technology in and on relationships, technology provides new approaches to observe and study relationships. This study demonstrates the potential for using unobtrusive measures of texting obtained through mobile data donation for the study of communication behaviors during relationship development. In particular, we examine how textin…
Modeling Within-Dyad Change in Coregulation Using Couples’ Text Messages and Differential Equation Models
"Modeling Within-Dyad Change in Coregulation Using Couples’ Text Messages and Differential Equation Models." Multivariate Behavioral Research, 55(1), pp. 139–140
Emotion socialization as a dynamic process across emotion contexts
Emotion-related socialization behaviors that occur during parent-child interactions are dynamic. According to Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) model, ongoing parental reactions to emotions and discussions of emotion indirectly shape children's socioemotional competence throughout childhood and adolescence. Typically developing adolescents-girls especially-are at increased risk for developing internalizing symptoms. We examined if and h…
Screenomics: A Framework to Capture and Analyze Personal Life Experiences and the Ways that Technology Shapes Them
Digital experiences capture an increasingly large part of life, making them a preferred, if not required, method to describe and theorize about human behavior. Digital media also shape behavior by enabling people to switch between different content easily, and create unique threads of experiences that pass quickly through numerous information categories. Current methods of recording digital experiences provide only partial reconstructions of digi…
Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives
We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development
Analyzing Dyadic Data Using Grid-Sequence Analysis: Interdyad Differences in Intradyad Dynamics
Methodologically, grid-sequence analysis extends the toolbox of techniques for analysis of dyadic experience sampling data. Substantively, we identify patterns of dyad-level microdynamics that may serve as new markers of risk/protective factors and potential points for intervention in older adults' proximal context
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions
This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…
Using technology to unobtrusively observe relationship development
Texting plays an increasingly important role in romantic relationships. Along with the increased use and impact of technology in and on relationships, technology provides new approaches to observe and study relationships. This study demonstrates the potential for using unobtrusive measures of texting obtained through mobile data donation for the study of communication behaviors during relationship development. In particular, we examine how textin…
Emotion socialization as a dynamic process across emotion contexts
Emotion-related socialization behaviors that occur during parent-child interactions are dynamic. According to Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) model, ongoing parental reactions to emotions and discussions of emotion indirectly shape children's socioemotional competence throughout childhood and adolescence. Typically developing adolescents-girls especially-are at increased risk for developing internalizing symptoms. We examined if and h…
Analyzing Dyadic Data Using Grid-Sequence Analysis: Interdyad Differences in Intradyad Dynamics
Methodologically, grid-sequence analysis extends the toolbox of techniques for analysis of dyadic experience sampling data. Substantively, we identify patterns of dyad-level microdynamics that may serve as new markers of risk/protective factors and potential points for intervention in older adults' proximal context
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages
The digital text traces left by computer-mediated communication (CMC) provide a new opportunity to test theories of relational processes that were originally developed through observation of face-to-face interactions. Communication accommodation theory, for example, suggests that conversation partners' verbal (and non-verbal) behaviors become more similar as relationships develop. Using a corpus of 1+ million text messages that 41 college-age rom…
Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives
We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development
Conceptualizing and Examining Change in Communication Research
Communication research often focuses on processes of communication, such as how messages impact individuals over time or how interpersonal relationships develop and change. Despite their importance, these change processes are often implicit in much theoretical and empirical work in communication. Intensive longitudinal data are becoming increasingly feasible to collect and, when coupled with appropriate analytic frameworks, enable researchers to …
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation
Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…
Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations: A Typology of Speaking Turns and Their Contingencies
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…
Analyzing Dyadic Data Using Grid-Sequence Analysis: Interdyad Differences in Intradyad Dynamics
Methodologically, grid-sequence analysis extends the toolbox of techniques for analysis of dyadic experience sampling data. Substantively, we identify patterns of dyad-level microdynamics that may serve as new markers of risk/protective factors and potential points for intervention in older adults' proximal context
Screenomics: A Framework to Capture and Analyze Personal Life Experiences and the Ways that Technology Shapes Them
Digital experiences capture an increasingly large part of life, making them a preferred, if not required, method to describe and theorize about human behavior. Digital media also shape behavior by enabling people to switch between different content easily, and create unique threads of experiences that pass quickly through numerous information categories. Current methods of recording digital experiences provide only partial reconstructions of digi…
Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives
We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development
Modeling Within-Dyad Change in Coregulation Using Couples’ Text Messages and Differential Equation Models
"Modeling Within-Dyad Change in Coregulation Using Couples’ Text Messages and Differential Equation Models." Multivariate Behavioral Research, 55(1), pp. 139–140
Emotion socialization as a dynamic process across emotion contexts
Emotion-related socialization behaviors that occur during parent-child interactions are dynamic. According to Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) model, ongoing parental reactions to emotions and discussions of emotion indirectly shape children's socioemotional competence throughout childhood and adolescence. Typically developing adolescents-girls especially-are at increased risk for developing internalizing symptoms. We examined if and h…
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication
This article articulates conceptual and methodological strategies for studying the dynamic structure of dyadic interaction revealed by the turn-to-turn exchange of messages between partners. Using dyadic time series data that capture partners’ back-and-forth contributions to conversations, dynamic dyadic systems analysis illuminates how individuals act and react to each other as they jointly construct conversations. Five layers of inquiry are off…
The idiosyncrasies of everyday digital lives: Using the Human Screenome Project to study user behavior on smartphones
Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations: A Typology of Speaking Turns and Their Contingencies
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages
The digital text traces left by computer-mediated communication (CMC) provide a new opportunity to test theories of relational processes that were originally developed through observation of face-to-face interactions. Communication accommodation theory, for example, suggests that conversation partners' verbal (and non-verbal) behaviors become more similar as relationships develop. Using a corpus of 1+ million text messages that 41 college-age rom…
Using technology to unobtrusively observe relationship development
Texting plays an increasingly important role in romantic relationships. Along with the increased use and impact of technology in and on relationships, technology provides new approaches to observe and study relationships. This study demonstrates the potential for using unobtrusive measures of texting obtained through mobile data donation for the study of communication behaviors during relationship development. In particular, we examine how textin…
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions
This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…
A Screenshot Vignette Study of Caregiver Perceptions of Adolescent Digital Dating Abuse
Recent national data show that approximately three-quarters of adolescents experience digital dating abuse (DDA). Caregivers' perceptions and knowledge of online risk behaviors are important points of prevention and intervention, yet little is known about how caregivers view adolescent DDA and whether they can recognize DDA in complex interactions (e.g., DDA behaviors interwoven with positive relational behaviors). An ethnic/racial and gender-div…
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use
Descriptions of moment-by-moment changes in attention contribute critical elements to theory and practice about how people process media. We introduce a new concept called screenertia and use new screen-capture methodology to empirically evaluate its occurrence. We unobtrusively obtained 400,000+ screenshots of 30 participants’ laptop screens every 5 seconds for 4 days to examine individuals’ attention to their screens and how the distribution of…
Linking stress to the emergence of relational turbulence in marriage
The assumption that stress negatively impacts marital relationships is widely accepted; however, the majority of research has focused on marital satisfaction as the outcome of interest. Relational turbulence is a quality of romantic associations on par with—but distinct from—satisfaction, in which partners conceptualize their relationship as chaotic or tumultuous. This paper draws on relational turbulence theory (RTT) and stress spillover researc…
Conceptualizing and Examining Change in Communication Research
Communication research often focuses on processes of communication, such as how messages impact individuals over time or how interpersonal relationships develop and change. Despite their importance, these change processes are often implicit in much theoretical and empirical work in communication. Intensive longitudinal data are becoming increasingly feasible to collect and, when coupled with appropriate analytic frameworks, enable researchers to …
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation
Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…
Campaign-Induced Interpersonal Communication: Identifying Turn Types and Exploring Their Interdependencies
Media campaigns produce effects when audience members discuss the campaign messages. Fundamental to the understanding of how talk bridges exposure and effect is a knowledge of its content. However, prior attempts to measure talk content have largely been limited to gross characteristics of the interactions. We argue that advances in this line of research require representing post-exposure talk as campaign-induced interpersonal communication (CIC)…
Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation
How are Conversations via an On-Demand Peer-To-Peer Emotional Well-Being App Associated with Emotional Improvement
Non-clinical, on-demand peer-to-peer (PtP) support apps have become increasingly popular over the past several years. Although not as pervasive as general self-help apps, these PtP support apps are usually free and instantly connect individuals through live texting with a non-clinical volunteer who has been minimally trained to listen and offer support. To date, there is little empirical work that examines whether and how using an on-demand PtP s…
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture
Research on educational television has overwhelmingly investigated the impact of viewing on children’s knowledge acquisition. However, this content might influence other important outcomes, such as children’s interest in learning about new topics. To investigate this possibility, we invited parents of 3- to 8-year-old children (N = 83) to answer three surveys over 1 month. The first survey included a video encouraging families to view a popular s…
The Impact of Attachment Style on Communication Frequency and Language Use in Romantic Partners’ Text Messages
This study examines the association between attachment style and text message behaviors using the text message history of 40 early-stage college student daters. Actor-partner interdependence models revealed an association between avoidant attachment and decreased texting frequency, but not an association between anxious attachment and texting frequency. Further, anxiously attached individuals utilized more future focused language in their text me…
A building block for science talk: Educational TV supports parent–child conversations during an engineering activity
We investigated the impact of parents' open-ended questions during collaborative science activities. Specifically, we randomly assigned 116 parents (69.8% mothers; 89.7% White) and their 4- to 7-year-old children (50.9% girls; 87.9% White) to watch science television before or after completing an engineering activity. Using sequence analysis, we examined the conversational exchanges elicited by parents' open-ended questions. Two patterns emerged:…
Digital Communication in Parent-Emerging Adult Relationships: Balancing Autonomy and Connection
This study examined parent-emerging adult digital communication from a relational maintenance perspective. Our goal was to understand how relational maintenance behaviors enacted via digital communication are related to the emerging adult’s autonomy from and connection with parents. We examined the frequency of parent-initiated digital communication, the perceived reasons for communication, and whether parenting characteristics served as moderato…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Communication (7 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Interpersonal communication (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)