Tiana Case

Tiana is a doctoral candidate in the University of Washington’s Department of Communication. Her research focuses on positive interpersonal communication, with particular attention to kindness and supportive communication as potential pathways to individual and relational well-being. She examines how people experience, interpret, and narrate meaningful communicative interactions, and how revisiting these experiences through savoring may foster positive emotions, social connection, and wellness. Her work draws on mixed-methods approaches, including qualitative narrative analysis and quantitative methods, to investigate the relationship between everyday communication and well-being.