Jennifer Bevan is a senior lecturer at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is on leave for the 2006-2007 academic year. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in communication from the University of Delaware and her Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Georgia.
Her publications include over a dozen peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles appearing in such journals as Communication Monographs, Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Studies, Western Journal of Communication, and Communication Quarterly. Her dissertation, "Intrapersonal Consequences of Another’s Jealousy Expression: Toward a Reaction Model of Jealousy in Close Relationships" received the 2003 Interpersonal Communication Division Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association. She has also been awarded three top student paper awards in health and interpersonal communication and three top four interpersonal communication paper awards at national and regional communication conventions. Her husband is Gordon Stables, the director of debate at USC Annenberg.
Dr. Bevan's research interests center upon interpersonal communication and interpersonal influence in close relationships. Specific research topics include the understanding and negotiation of difficult interactions such as ongoing interpersonal conflict, jealousy expression, sexual resistance, topic avoidance and relational reconciliation. She has examined these topics in romantic, friend and family relationships. Currently, she is refining and expanding her consequence model of partner jealousy expression, which was first tested in her dissertation research and published in Communication Reports in April 2006. She is also currently collecting data on the relationship between interpersonal communication and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptom severity in collaboration with several IBS message boards and websites, including
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Bevan, J. L. (in press). Understanding romantic jealousy experience, expression, and commitment through the lens of the investment model. Southern Communication Journal.
Bevan, J. L., Tidgewell, K. D., Barkdull, K. C., Cusanelli, L., Hartstern, M., Holbeck, D., & Hale, J. L. (in press). Serial argumentation goals and their relationships to perceived resolvability and choice of conflict tactics. Communication Quarterly.
Bevan, J. L., & Hale, J. L. (in press). Negative jealousy-related emotion and rumination as consequences of dating partner, cross-sex friend, and sibling jealousy expression. Communication Studies.
Bevan, J. L., Stetzenbach, K. A., Batson, E., & Bullo, K. (in press). Factors associated with general partner and relational uncertainty within early adulthood sibling relationships. Communication Quarterly.
Bevan, J. L., & Stetzenbach, K. A. (in press). Jealousy expression and communication satisfaction in adult sibling relationships. Communication Research Reports.
Bevan, J. L. (2006). Testing and refining a consequence model of jealousy across relational contexts and jealousy expression messages. Communication Reports, 19, 31-44.