research publications

2021

Identities in Action: Developments in Identity Theory. P.S. Brenner, R.T. Serpe, and J.E. Stets, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

2020

Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications, edited by P. S. Brenner. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Brenner, Philip S., Jill LaPlante, and Tracy L. Reed. “Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews.” Sociology of Religion.

Brenner, Philip S., Richard T. Serpe, and Tracy L. Reed. “Accessing and Improving Measures of Identity Salience.” Pp. 59-78 in Advancing Identity Theory, Measurement, and Research, J. E. Stets, A. V. Reichelmann, and K. J. Kiecolt, eds, New York: Springer.

Kompf, Justin, Jessica Whaley, Philip S. Brenner, and Sarah Camhi. 2023. “Resistance Train- ing Behavior is Enhanced with Digital Behavior Change Coaching: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Novice Adults.” Journal of Physical Activity and Health 20(6):531-537.

Troped, Philip, Philip S. Brenner, and Jeffrey Wilson. 2023. “Associations between the built and social environment and physical activity and cycling among adults living in Boston neighborhoods.” Journal of Transport and Health 31:101629.

Brenner, Philip S. and Trent D. Buskirk. 2022. “Scratch the Scratch-Off: Testing Prepaid and Conditional Incentives with Postcard and Letter Invitations in a Web-Push Design with an Address-Based Sample.” Field Methods 34(1):20-35.

Brenner, Philip S., J. Lee Hargraves, and Carol Cosenza. 2022. “Testing a Planned Missing Design to Reduce Respondent Burden in Web and SMS Administrations of the Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey.” Journal of Official Statistics 38(4):963-986.

Dorner, Stephen C., Amy J. Wint, Philip S. Brenner, Bronwyn Keefe, Joseph Palmisano, and Lisa I. Iezzoni. 2022. “Patient Perceptions of In-home Urgent Care via Mobile Integrated Health.” American Journal of Managed Care 28(4):152-158.

Fowler, Floyd J., Philip S. Brenner, Carol Cosenza, and Paul Cleary. 2022. “How Responding in Spanish Affects CAHPS Results.” BMC: Health Services Research 22:884.

Zhang, Chan, Philip S. Brenner, and Lirui He. 2022. “Measuring religious non-affiliation in China: Survey designs, question wordings, and population estimates in six national surveys.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 34(1).

Brenner, Philip S. 2021. “Effects of Nonresponse and Coverage Problems on Survey Estimates of Physical Activity.” Sociological Spectrum 41(4):338-351.

Brenner, Philip S. 2021. “Effects of Nonresponse, Measurement, and Coverage Bias on Survey Estimates of Voting.” Social Science Quarterly 102(2):939-954.

Brenner, Philip S., Jan E. Stets, and Richard T. Serpe. 2021. ”Introduction: Overview of Identities in Action.” Pp. 1-8 in Identities in Action: Developments in Identity Theory, P.S. Brenner, R.T. Serpe, and J.E. Stets, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Brenner, Philip S. 2021. ”Religious Identity in a Proximate Social Structure: Mothers, Fathers, and the Religious Socialization of their Children.”  Pp. 179-200 in Identities in Action: Developments in Identity Theory, P.S. Brenner, R.T. Serpe, and J.E. Stets, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Fowler, Floyd J., Jr., Philip S. Brenner, Paul Cleary, and J. Lee Hargraves. 2021. “Comparing Web and Mail Protocols for Administering HCAHPS Surveys.” Medical Care.

Rose, Timothy R. and Philip S. Brenner. 2021. ”Relational Positioning as Intermediate Social Structure in Identity Theory.” Pp. 303-322 in Identities in Action: Developments in Identity Theory, P.S. Brenner, R.T. Serpe, and J.E. Stets, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Brenner, Philip S., Carol Cosenza, and Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. 2020. “Which Subject Lines and Messages Improve Response to Email Invitations to Web Surveys?” Field Methods 32(4):365-382.

Brenner, Philip S. 2020. “Advancing Theories of Socially Desirable Responding: How Identity Processes Influence Answers to ‘Sensitive Questions.’” Pp 45-65 in Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications, edited by P. S. Brenner. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Brenner, Philip S. 2020. “Why Survey Methodology Needs Sociology and Why Sociology Needs Survey Methodology.’” Pp. 1-11 in Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications, edited by P. S. Brenner. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Brenner, Philip S. 2020. “Conclusion and Future Directions.’” Pp. 325-333 in Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications, edited by P. S. Brenner. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Fowler, Floyd J., Philip S. Brenner, Anthony M. Roman, and J. Lee Hargraves. 2020. “The Effects of Nonresponse and Sampling Omissions on Estimates on Various Topics in Federal Surveys: Telephone and IVR Surveys of Address-Based Samples.” Journal of Official Statistics 36(3):631-645.

Brenner, Philip S. 2019. “Can Phishing Tank Survey Response Rates? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” Field Methods 31(4):295-308.

Brenner, Philip S. 2019. “Does Survey Nonresponse Bias Estimates of Religious Service Attendance? Evidence from an Address-Based Sample from the Boston Area.” Sociology of Religion 80(2):247-262.

Brenner, Philip S. 2019. “Sexuality, Political Polarization, and Survey Reports of Religious Non- Affiliation.” Politics and Religion 12(1):153-170.

Brenner, Philip S. 2019. “Authenticity and the Religious Identity.” Pp 75-92 in Identities in Everyday Life, edited by J. E. Stets and R. T. Serpe. New York: Oxford University Press.

Creighton, Mathew, Philip S. Brenner, Peter Schmidt, and Diana Zavala-Rojas. 2019. “Application of the List Experiment at the Population Level: The Case of Opposition to Immigration in the Netherlands.” Pp. 181-194 in Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques That Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment, edited by P. J. Lavarakas, M. W. Traugott, C. Kennedy, A. L. Holbrook, E. de Leeuw, and B. T. West. New York: Wiley.

Fowler, Floyd J., Philip S. Brenner, Anthony M. Roman, and Trent D. Buskirk. 2019. “Telephone Survey Health Estimates: Effects of Nonresponse and Sample Limitations.” Health Services Research 54(3):700-706.

Brenner, Philip S. and Justine Bulgar-Medina. 2018. “Testing Mark-All-That-Apply Measures of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.” Field Methods 30(4):357-370.

Brenner, Philip S., Richard T. Serpe, and Sheldon Stryker. 2018. “Role-specific Self-efficacy as Precedent and Product of the Identity Model.” Sociological Perspectives 61(1):57-80.

Brenner, Philip S. 2017.“Narratives of Error from Cognitive Interviews of Survey Questions about Normative Behavior.” Sociological Methods & Research 46(3):540-564.

Brenner, Philip S. 2017.“Toward a Social Psychology of Survey Methodology: An Application of the Approach and Directions for the Future.” Sociology Compass 11(7):1-13.

Brenner, Philip S. 2017. “Differential Effects of Time Constraints on Athletic Behavior and Survey Reports of Athletic Behavior.” Sociological Spectrum 37:97-110.

Brenner, Philip S. 2017. “How Religious Identity Shapes Survey Responses.” Pp 21-47 in Faithful Measures: New Methods in the Measurement of Religion, edited by R. Finke and C. D. Bader. New York: NYU Press.

Granberry, Phillip J., Maria Idal ́ı Torres, Philip S. Brenner, Leandra Smollin, Jose Saavedra, Sharon Person, Jeroan Allison, and Milagros Rosal. 2017. “Cinco Minutos Solamente: Using Interviewers’ Social Capital to Increase Community Survey Response Rates. Journal of Applied Social Science 11(2):159-171.

Stets, Jan E., Philip S. Brenner, Peter J. Burke, and Richard T. Serpe. 2017. “The Science Identity and Entering a Science Occupation.” Social Science Research 64:1-14.

Brenner, Philip S. and John DeLamater. 2016. “Lies, Damned Lies, and Survey Self-Reports? Identity as a Cause of Measurement Bias.” Social Psychology Quarterly 79(4):333-354. 

Brenner, Philip S. 2016. “Cross-national Trends in Religious Service Attendance.” Public Opinion Quarterly 80(2):563-583.

Brenner, Philip S. and John DeLamater. 2016. “Measurement Directiveness as a Cause of Response Bias: Evidence from Two Survey Experiments.” Sociological Methods & Research 45(2): 348-371.

Brenner, Philip S., Jessica L. LeBlanc, Anthony M. Roman, and Naa Oyo A. Kwate. 2015. “Safety and Solidarity After the Boston Marathon Bombing: A Comparison of Three Diverse Boston Neighborhoods.” Sociological Forum 30(1):40-61.

Brenner, Philip S., Richard T. Serpe, and Sheldon Stryker. 2014. “The Causal Ordering of Prominence and Salience in Identity Theory: An Empirical Examination.” Social Psychology Quarterly 77(3):231-252.

Brenner, Philip S. and John DeLamater. 2014. “Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reports of Physical Activity: Is an Exercise Identity the Culprit?” Social Indicators Research 117(2):489-504.

Brenner, Philip S. 2014. “Testing the Veracity of Self-reported Religious Behavior in the Muslim World.” Social Forces 92(3):1009-1037.

Brenner, Philip S. and John DeLamater. 2013. “Predictive Validity of Paradata on Reports of Physical Exercise: Evidence from a Time Use Study Using Text Messaging.” Journal of Time Use Research 10(1): 38-54.

Brenner, Philip S .2012. “Investigating the Effect of Bias in Survey Measures of Church Attendance.” Sociology of Religion 73(4): 361-383.

Brenner, Philip S. 2012. “Overreporting of Voting Participation as a Function of Identity Salience.” Social Science Journal 49(4): 421-429.

Brenner, Philip S. 2012. “Identity as a Determinant of the Overreporting of Church Attendance in Canada.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51(2): 377-385.

Brenner, Philip S. 2011. “Exceptional Behavior or Exceptional Identity? Overreporting of Church Attendance in the US.” Public Opinion Quarterly 75(1): 19-41.

Brenner, Philip S. 2011. “Identity Importance and the Overreporting of Religious Service Attendance: Multiple Imputation of Religious Attendance using American Time Use Study and the General Social Survey.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50(1): 103-115.

Brenner, Philip S. 2011. “Investigating the Biasing Effect of Identity Importance in Self-Reports of Socially Desirable Behavior.” Sociological Focus 44(1): 55-75.