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Philip S. Brenner, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts Senior Research Fellow, Center for Survey Research
  • Telephone: 617-287-7200 x11304
  • Fax: 617-287-6288
  • Office Location: Healey Library, 10th Floor, Room 00026

Areas of Expertise

Survey Methodology, Measurement, Quantitative Methods, Sociology of Religion, Social Psychology, Self and Identity

Degrees

PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Brenner, Philip S. 2012. “Investigating the Effect of Bias in Survey Measures of Church Attendance.” Sociology of Religion 73(4): 361-83. doi:10.1093/socrel/srs042.

  • Brenner, Philip S. 2012. “Overreporting of Voting Participation as a Function of Identity Salience.” Social Science Journal 49(4): 421-29.

  • 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):377-85.

  • 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.

Additional Information

View Professor Brenner's Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

Current research projects include an examination of the social sources of measurement error in normative behaviors, like religious practice in the Middle East and Asia in addition to Europe and North America, as well as engagement in exercise and physical activity, voting participation, and environmental ("green") behaviors.