Holly Fitzgerald

Education M.S. Psychology – Clinical Psychology focus, West Virginia University (2018)
B.A. Psychology & Women’s Studies, Old Dominion University (2014)
Research Interests
  • prejudice and its relation to mental health outcomes for racial, sexual, and gender minorities
  • intersectionality and stigmatized identity
  • conspiracy belief maintenance
  • the BIS and its relation to prejudice
Representative Publications Fitzgerald, H., Owen, C., & Shook, N. J. (2024). Fringe benefits: Secondary transfer effects of lesbian, gay, and bisexual contact on transgender prejudice. Current Psychology, 43, 3548-3561.

 

Shook, N. J., Fitzgerald, H. N., Sevi, B., & Oosterhoff, B. (2022). Is disgust proneness prospectively associated with influenza vaccine hesitancy and uptake? Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 46, 54-64.

 

Oosterhoff, B., Poppler, A., Hill, R. M., Fitzgerald, H. N., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context. Infant and Child Development, 31, e2280.

 

Fitzgerald, H. N., McDonald, R., Thomas, R., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Disease avoidance: A predictor of sexist attitudes toward females. Current Psychology, 41, 9038–9052.

 

Fitzgerald, H. N., Sevi, B., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Fraudulent health claims: Further consideration of the role of emotions. Social Science & Medicine, 259, 112979.

 

Shook, N. J., Fitzgerald, H., Ford, C. G., Hopkins, P. D., & Silva, N. M. (2020). Sexism, racism, or nationalism: Factors associated with the 2016 U.S. presidential election results? PLoS ONE, 15, e0229432.