Miriam Brinberg
Miriam (Mimi) is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State. Her research focuses on examining interpersonal interactions in everyday life and developing methods to better study those interactions.
Our goal to develop and disseminate methods for the study of interpersonal interactions began with trying to identify patterns that were indicative of emotion regulation and cognitive reappraisal within support conversations. We quickly realized that our attempts to illuminate the “black box” of support conversations was a much larger endeavor applicable to the study of interpersonal interaction generally. In turn, we expanded the scope of our project to develop an integrated analytical and theoretical framework that researchers might apply to their own research questions and data to investigate the dynamics of dyadic interaction.
LHAMA Team
Meet the LHAMA team! Learn more about each collaborator and their research interests.
Graham Bodie
Graham is a professor of Integrated Marketing Communication in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on listening and the social cognitive underpinnings of human communicative behavior.
Susanne Jones
Susanne is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research focuses on interpersonal communication processes, social support, and emotion regulation.
Nilam Ram
Nilam is a Professor in the Departments of Communication and Psychology at Stanford University. He studies how short-term changes (e.g., processes such as learning, information processing, emotion regulation, etc.) develop across the life span, and how longitudinal study designs contribute to generation of new knowledge.
Denise Solomon
Denise is a Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State. Her research focuses on communication experiences in personal relationships, such as support and conflict, that enhance or erode well-being.
Yuwei Li
Yuwei is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State. His research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of conversational dynamics, in contexts such as serial arguments between romantic partners and advice.