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Megan Robbins – The Little Things in Life: An Observational Perspective on Everyday Coping

March 3, 2014 @ 12:00 am

Megan Robbins: UC Riverside Department of Psychology

This talk discusses the potential of a novel naturalistic observation method, the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), for studying health-relevant social processes. The EAR is a portable audio recorder that periodically records snippets of ambient sounds from participants’ momentary environments. In tracking moment-to-moment ambient sounds, it yields acoustic logs of people’s days as they naturally unfold. In sampling only a fraction of the time, it protects participants’ privacy and makes large-scale observational studies feasible. As a naturalistic observation method, the EAR provides an observer’s account of daily life, which renders it optimal for studying the role of automatic expressive behaviors (e.g. sighing, swearing, laughing) and habitual communication processes (e.g. we-talk) in the coping context. I will first highlight findings regarding the role of sighing, swearing, and laughing in the coping process. Then, I will present recent results from a study of the daily social interactions of couples coping with breast cancer.

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Date:
March 3, 2014
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12:00 am
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Date:
March 3, 2014
Time:
12:00 am
Event Categories:
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