Laura E Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 166322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura E Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura E |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6868-6710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“What do you want to do?”
Collaborative work represents a communicative context in which organizational actors navigate the blurring of knowledge and authority boundaries as they address complex problems. This article theorizes about expertise tension that arises when individuals with valuable insights lack corresponding authority to act, or vice versa. Using observations and interviews, we studied how physicians and nurses navigated this tension in problem-solving situat…
“We’re All in This Together”
Farmer suicide rates continue to increase, with levels being 1.5 times higher than the national rate. This has led agricultural and public health groups to craft and distribute farm stress and suicide messages to help farmers. However, suicide rates remain at critical levels indicating that there may be a disconnect between existing efforts and farmer sensemaking of the crisis. Utilizing the Theory of Memorable Messages (ToMM), this study explore…
Associations between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences, Stressful Life Events, and Child Behavioral Outcomes in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Families
The purpose of this study was to examine associations between psychosocial factors and parenting practices with behavioral outcomes in children from racially/ethnically diverse mothers with a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and stressful life events (SLEs). This was a secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data from the Family Matters cohort study. The analytic sample included families with children ages 5-9 with non-White m…
Between the Facts and a Hard Place
This study examined the formation of trust judgments of information sources about COVID-19 and the role played by emotions in this information seeking process. Twenty-seven in-depth interviews with Americans revealed that both trust and affective responses were present in information seeking of health messages, thus discovering the applicability of Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model's propositions during pandemics. Using qualita…
“Count the Days by the Good Outcomes”
Over the last 50 years, the number of farms in the United States has declined by 33%, with family farms, which make up 96% of total farms, especially at risk. Despite dwindling numbers, the passion and heart of family farm members remain strong as they continue to farm. This study utilized stress and coping theory to explore family farm member experiences with stress and how they communicatively cope. Zoom interviews with 26 family farm members r…
“We Aren’t Here to Win; We are Here Not to Lose”
Healthcare providers in hospital emergency departments (EDs) work under high uncertainty and pressure to manage a variety of patients efficiently. Whereas much existing research has examined communicative implications of uncertainty from patients' perspectives, we explored ED physicians' experiences of uncertainty in their everyday work environment. Through an ethnographic fieldwork in an ED, we identified three main sources of uncertainty routin…
Family Communication About Cancer in Korea
Parent-adolescent communication is important in the context of childhood cancer. However, we know little about the communication experiences between Korean adolescents and their parents. Here, we conducted a secondary analysis of interview data from a qualitative descriptive study to explore Korean parent-adolescent communication experiences as a unit. Specifically, our dyadic analysis of individual interviews with seven Korean adolescents with c…
"Fostering the "Art of Forceful Speech
The Century Club of California (CCC), founded in 1888, was San Francisco's most prestigious women's club in the early twentieth century. The club's aim was to promote intellectual growth and amplify female voices to help women enter the public domain with confidence. Weekly presentations featured renowned public figures and women who had achieved success in traditionally male fields. Rather than raising money for benevolent organizations, the CCC…
From Vulnerability to Disclosure
This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct the meaning of patient trust in their work caring for pregnant and laboring women. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with nurse participants employed at clinics, hospitals, and birth centers across Southeastern United States. Using a normative theoretical approach within the multiple goals framework, we identified five emergent themes that character…
How People with Opioid Use Disorder Communicatively Experience Family
In the United States (U.S.), 130 people die every day from an opioid overdose, and family is an influential factor in people’s experience of opioid use disorder (OUD). Although a growing body of research examines the communication of families affected by substance use, little research considers the impact of addiction on family relationships from the perspective of people with a substance use disorder. Guided by family systems theory (FST), this …
Swift role negotiations
This field study of a hospital emergency department (ED) examined role negotiations among ED care providers in teaming (i.e., the process of bringing individuals in distinct roles to collaborate as a temporary unit). A grounded qualitative analysis revealed that although a prescriptive role structure enables teaming through role-based coordination, ED providers negotiated one another’s role shifts via brief communicative acts to work through nove…
Who's gonna love a junkie? But he does
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., and people with OUD may rely on romantic partners to dyadically cope with their illness. Guided by the communication theory of identity, this study examines the identity tensions experienced by couples managing OUD and how identity negotiations contribute to couples' efforts to dyadically cope with OUD. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 dyads and 6 indiv…
Beneath the Hybrid Surface
Research Article| October 01 2019 Beneath the Hybrid Surface: Baban as a Tool for Self-Definition in the Music of Chen Yi Leta Miller Leta Miller Leta Miller is professor of music emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published widely on music in the twentieth century, including her book Music and Politics in San Francisco, two books and a MUSA edition on Lou Harrison, a book on Aaron Jay Kernis, and more than twenty articl…
Peers, stereotypes and health communication through the cultural lens of adolescent Appalachian mothers
The purpose of this study was to understand how young Appalachian mothers retrospectively construct sexual and reproductive health communication events. Sixteen in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with mothers between the ages of 18 and 22 from the South Central Appalachian region of the USA. Findings indicate that within this population, peer influence, stereotypes medical encounters and formal health education are experienced within …
Perceived Threat in Childhood
The current study is a review of existing literature on perceived threat across childhood (0–19 years). There is strong evidence from this body of research that threat detection emerges in infancy and is present throughout childhood, with meaningful links to child adjustment. The wide range of methodologies employed to assess threat include biological measures (event-related potential and functional magnetic resonance imaging), observational data…
Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Adult Mental Health Problems
The effect of an evidence-based intervention on women’s exposure to intimate partner violence
This study tested the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention for reducing women's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). One-hundred and twenty women who had experienced IPV in the last 2 years were assigned to a treatment or comparison group condition using a sequential assignment paradigm. Treatment group participants completed a 10-session evidence-based intervention, the Mom's Empowerment Program, designed to treat common menta…
In-Home Social Networks and Positive Adjustment in Children Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence
Evidence suggests that social support may act as a potential protective factor for psychological maladjustment, but few studies have examined the social support networks of young children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The present study examined the in-home networks for 120 preschool-age children who were recently exposed to male-to-female IPV. Results indicated that larger in-home networks were associated with fewer child internaliz…
Once
Predicting Shelter Residence in Women Experiencing Recent Intimate Partner Violence
This study sought to determine factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 113 women, approximately half of whom resided in a shelter over the past year. Participating women provided demographic information and completed standardized measures of IPV, trauma, and depression. Ethnicity, income, housing stability, and mental health, but not violence exposure, differ…
Scavarda, Donald
Cacioppo, George
Consistency of trauma symptoms at home and in therapy for preschool children exposed to intimate partner violence
The expression of posttraumatic stress symptoms during group therapy and how this might differ from the expression of those symptoms at home was evaluated in a group of preschool children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 55 mother-child dyads. Reports of posttraumatic stress symptoms were collected from mothers and child therapists and compared in terms of the symptom subtypes that the child expressed at home and in…
Inconsistencies in Mothers’ and Group Therapists’ Evaluations of Resilience in Preschool Children who Live in Households with Intimate Partner Violence
We're Going to be Survivors”
Previous research has demonstrated identity challenges that people with cancer experience. Most of this research focuses solely on patients' experiences of identity during illness. The current study is distinct from the extant literature in two ways. First, it examines identity negotiations both during and after treatment. Cancer survivorship after successful treatment is a unique context in which to study identity because cancer is out of the bo…
Relational Uncertainty and Message Processing in Marriage
We theorized that relational uncertainty fosters a pessimism bias that leads spouses to process messages negatively. We conducted a study in which 125 couples engaged in videotaped conversations. Although participants reported modest levels of relational uncertainty, our results were consistent with our predictions. Relational uncertainty predicted individuals’ judgments of the affiliation, dominance, and involvement of their partner's messages (…
E-Petitions at Westminster
The Westminster Parliament has been prompted to develop an e-Petitions system in light of the fact that similar tools are now well established in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. The Number Ten e-Petitions site, too, has proved inspirational although discussions within Westminster about the development of a comparable system have focused on the risks associated with it. This paper describes the momentum towards a Westminster-based e-Pe…
Putative secrets
Secrets are common within relationships. Sometimes, unbeknownst to a secret keeper, a relational partner learns a secret but allows the keeper to believe that the secret is still unknown. This article summarizes two investigations of such instances, which we call putative secrets. Study 1 (N = 207) provided a descriptive base of putative secret topics, means by which secrets are kept, and perceived reasons for keeping secrets. Study 2 (N = 383) f…
Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Adult Mental Health Problems
Who's gonna love a junkie? But he does
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., and people with OUD may rely on romantic partners to dyadically cope with their illness. Guided by the communication theory of identity, this study examines the identity tensions experienced by couples managing OUD and how identity negotiations contribute to couples' efforts to dyadically cope with OUD. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 dyads and 6 indiv…
We're Going to be Survivors”
Previous research has demonstrated identity challenges that people with cancer experience. Most of this research focuses solely on patients' experiences of identity during illness. The current study is distinct from the extant literature in two ways. First, it examines identity negotiations both during and after treatment. Cancer survivorship after successful treatment is a unique context in which to study identity because cancer is out of the bo…
Traumatic Events and Maternal Education as Predictors of Verbal Ability for Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Predicting Shelter Residence in Women Experiencing Recent Intimate Partner Violence
This study sought to determine factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 113 women, approximately half of whom resided in a shelter over the past year. Participating women provided demographic information and completed standardized measures of IPV, trauma, and depression. Ethnicity, income, housing stability, and mental health, but not violence exposure, differ…
Openness and Avoidance in Couples Communicating About Cancer
Open communication and avoidance are fundamental communication processes that have been studied across a range of communication contexts. Couples in which one person has cancer are a theoretically and practically important site for examining openness and avoidance. We review the cancer-related topics that couples find challenging, couples reasons for communicating openly or avoiding talk about cancer-related topics, outcomes of communication, fea…
People Types
In-Home Social Networks and Positive Adjustment in Children Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence
Evidence suggests that social support may act as a potential protective factor for psychological maladjustment, but few studies have examined the social support networks of young children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The present study examined the in-home networks for 120 preschool-age children who were recently exposed to male-to-female IPV. Results indicated that larger in-home networks were associated with fewer child internaliz…
"Fostering the "Art of Forceful Speech
The Century Club of California (CCC), founded in 1888, was San Francisco's most prestigious women's club in the early twentieth century. The club's aim was to promote intellectual growth and amplify female voices to help women enter the public domain with confidence. Weekly presentations featured renowned public figures and women who had achieved success in traditionally male fields. Rather than raising money for benevolent organizations, the CCC…
How People with Opioid Use Disorder Communicatively Experience Family
In the United States (U.S.), 130 people die every day from an opioid overdose, and family is an influential factor in people’s experience of opioid use disorder (OUD). Although a growing body of research examines the communication of families affected by substance use, little research considers the impact of addiction on family relationships from the perspective of people with a substance use disorder. Guided by family systems theory (FST), this …
Swift role negotiations
This field study of a hospital emergency department (ED) examined role negotiations among ED care providers in teaming (i.e., the process of bringing individuals in distinct roles to collaborate as a temporary unit). A grounded qualitative analysis revealed that although a prescriptive role structure enables teaming through role-based coordination, ED providers negotiated one another’s role shifts via brief communicative acts to work through nove…
Rameau and the Royal Society of London
Journal Article RAMEAU AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON: NEW LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS Get access LETA E. MILLER LETA E. MILLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 1985, Pages 19–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/66.1.19 Published: 01 January 1985
John Birchensha and the Early Royal Society
The concept of music as science, still a vital part of the natural philosophy of the seventeenth century, found a strong advocate in the early Royal Society, whose agenda frequently embraced musical topics. From the organization's inception in 1660 to the early eighteenth century the Society's minutes recount acoustical experiments performed at meetings and describe papers on topics ranging from string vibrations to music's medicinal powers
The End of Japan Inc
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Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison and the American Gamelan
Since the inception of the first Indonesian music performance program in the United States in the 1950s, the number of gamelan in America has mushroomed. A gamelan-the word translates roughly as orchestra-is an ensemble comprising primarily pitched percussion. The main instruments of the ensemble are keyed metallophones with trough or tubular resonators, and knobbed gongs, some of which are suspended and some of which are laid horizontally on rop…
Harrison, Lou
Henry Cowell and Modern Dance
in 1992, found studio accompaniment quite intolerable. In 1939 he wrote to Lou Harrison: have the possibility of a job in Taos this summer.... I wouldn't get paid very much if at all; but it would be a step away from [dance] accompaniment-drudgery which I hate.' (It is tempting to speculate that Cage's impatience with studio work contributed in some measure to the composition method he ultimately worked out with Merce Cunningham in which sound an…
Reasons for, and consequences of, revealing personal secrets in close relationships
This investigation examines whether individuals’ reasons for keeping secrets predict whether they eventually reveal those secrets and whether individuals can accurately anticipate the outcomes of revealing. Respondents ( n = 342) first reported on a secret they were keeping and then returned 2 months later to report whether they had revealed it and, if so, what happened when they did. Findings indicated that participants’ reasons for keeping a se…
The Cowell-Ives Relationship
Using the relational turbulence model to understand negative emotion within courtship
We employ the relational turbulence model to deduce hypotheses about how intimacy, relational uncertainty, and interference and facilitation from partners predict people’s experience of negative emotion. We test our hypotheses using data from a self‐report, cross‐sectional study of 525 individuals involved in dating relationships. Results indicated that intimacy shared very small convex curvilinear associations with anger, sadness, fear, and jeal…
Openness and Avoidance in Couples Communicating About Cancer
Open communication and avoidance are fundamental communication processes that have been studied across a range of communication contexts. Couples in which one person has cancer are a theoretically and practically important site for examining openness and avoidance. We review the cancer-related topics that couples find challenging, couples reasons for communicating openly or avoiding talk about cancer-related topics, outcomes of communication, fea…
Relational Uncertainty and Message Processing in Marriage
We theorized that relational uncertainty fosters a pessimism bias that leads spouses to process messages negatively. We conducted a study in which 125 couples engaged in videotaped conversations. Although participants reported modest levels of relational uncertainty, our results were consistent with our predictions. Relational uncertainty predicted individuals’ judgments of the affiliation, dominance, and involvement of their partner's messages (…
Citizens and consumers
The regulation of media and communications in the UK has recently been subject to reform resulting in the creation of the Office of Communications (Ofcom). This statutory body, established by an Act of Parliament, is a new, sector-wide regulator, protecting the interests of what has been termed the ‘citizen-consumer’. This article charts the discursive shifts that occurred during the passage of the Communications Act through Parliament and in the…
E-Petitions at Westminster
The Westminster Parliament has been prompted to develop an e-Petitions system in light of the fact that similar tools are now well established in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. The Number Ten e-Petitions site, too, has proved inspirational although discussions within Westminster about the development of a comparable system have focused on the risks associated with it. This paper describes the momentum towards a Westminster-based e-Pe…
Traumatic Events and Maternal Education as Predictors of Verbal Ability for Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Putative secrets
Secrets are common within relationships. Sometimes, unbeknownst to a secret keeper, a relational partner learns a secret but allows the keeper to believe that the secret is still unknown. This article summarizes two investigations of such instances, which we call putative secrets. Study 1 (N = 207) provided a descriptive base of putative secret topics, means by which secrets are kept, and perceived reasons for keeping secrets. Study 2 (N = 383) f…
Elmer Keeton and His Bay Area Negro Chorus
On June 25, 1939, a vibrant show, the Swing Mikado, opened at the Golden Gate International Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island. Featuring an all-black cast, the production was a brashly irreverent adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado (Hobart 1939b) with the locale changed from Japan to an unidentified coral island in the South Seas. The Swing Mikado preserved Sullivan's intact--albeit with minor changes in lyrics to omit racist …
Scavarda, Donald
Cacioppo, George
Consistency of trauma symptoms at home and in therapy for preschool children exposed to intimate partner violence
The expression of posttraumatic stress symptoms during group therapy and how this might differ from the expression of those symptoms at home was evaluated in a group of preschool children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 55 mother-child dyads. Reports of posttraumatic stress symptoms were collected from mothers and child therapists and compared in terms of the symptom subtypes that the child expressed at home and in…
Inconsistencies in Mothers’ and Group Therapists’ Evaluations of Resilience in Preschool Children who Live in Households with Intimate Partner Violence
We're Going to be Survivors”
Previous research has demonstrated identity challenges that people with cancer experience. Most of this research focuses solely on patients' experiences of identity during illness. The current study is distinct from the extant literature in two ways. First, it examines identity negotiations both during and after treatment. Cancer survivorship after successful treatment is a unique context in which to study identity because cancer is out of the bo…
Once
Predicting Shelter Residence in Women Experiencing Recent Intimate Partner Violence
This study sought to determine factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 113 women, approximately half of whom resided in a shelter over the past year. Participating women provided demographic information and completed standardized measures of IPV, trauma, and depression. Ethnicity, income, housing stability, and mental health, but not violence exposure, differ…
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