Bailey M. Oliver‐Blackburn Data-verified
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Graduate Coordinator & Assistant Professor
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Bailey M. Oliver‐Blackburn's research focuses on communication within families, particularly in the context of stepfamily dynamics and intergroup relations. Oliver‐Blackburn has investigated the development of positive relationships in stepfamilies, examining relational trajectories and communication patterns between stepparents and stepchildren. Their work also explores strategies for fostering conversational receptiveness across political divides and the role of storytelling and listening in civic communities. Publications include studies on the discursive construction of the stepparent role, communication and resilience in stepfamilies, and half-sibling relationships. Oliver‐Blackburn has collaborated with researchers April Chatham‐Carpenter and Carol L. Thompson at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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- h-index: 3
- Publications: 9
- Citations: 31
Selected Publications
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Chapter 7. Civic Community Listening: The Nexus of Storytelling and Listening within Civic Communities (2025)
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‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide (2022)
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Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role (2022)
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Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads (2021)
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- Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
- Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads
- Stepfamilies as Developed and Enacted in Communication
- Communication and Resilience in Stepfamilies
- Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
- Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads
- ‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide
- Chapter 7. Civic Community Listening: The Nexus of Storytelling and Listening within Civic Communities
- Developmental Theories of Relationships
- Developmental Theories of Relationships
- Stepfamilies as Developed and Enacted in Communication
- Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads
- Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
- Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
- Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
- Chapter 7. Civic Community Listening: The Nexus of Storytelling and Listening within Civic Communities
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