Ross, C., Smith, J. G., Gawel, M., Walters, T. L., Song, Y., Cong, X., & Shook, N. J. (2024). “They’re scared that somebody’s gonna judge them”: Female African American youth in Foster Care’s perspectives on sexual and reproductive health communication with caregivers. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 75, 8-15

*Fitzgerald, H., *Owen, C., & Shook, N. J. (2023). Fringe benefits: Secondary transfer effects of lesbian, gay, and bisexual contact on transgender prejudice. Current Psychology.

*Wilson, J., *Haliwa, I., *Lee, J., & Shook, N. J. (2023). The role of dispositional mindfulness in the Fear-Avoidance Model of Pain. PLOS ONE.

Shook, N. J., Oosterhoff, B., & *Sevi, B. (2023). A longitudinal assessment of variability in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and psychosocial correlates in a national United States sample. Vaccine, 41, 1390-1397.

Hernandez, P. R., Ferguson, C., Pedersen, R., Richards-Babb, M., Quedado, K., & Shook, N. J. (2023). Research apprenticeship training promotes faculty-student psychological similarity and high-quality mentoring: A longitudinal quasi-experiment. Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning.

*Sevi, B., & Shook, N. J. (2022). The behavioral immune system and use of transportation services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Transport & Health, 26.

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.

Alvis, L., Douglas, R., Shook, N. J., & Oosterhoff, B. (2022). Associations between adolescents’ prosocial experiences and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology.

*Lee, J., **Weiss, A., Ford, C. G., **Conyers, D., & Shook, N. J. (2022). The indirect effect of trait mindfulness on life satisfaction though self-esteem and perceived stress. Current Psychology.

**Gibb, A., *Wilson, J., *Ford, C. G., & Shook, N. J. (2022). Does mindfulness reduce negative interpretation bias? Cognition and Emotion, 36, 284-299.

*Lee, J., *Ford, C. G., *McCluskey, D. L., *Hopkins, P. D., McNeil, D. W., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Testing the effectiveness of Brief Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression-Revised: Changes in depression, anxiety, dysfunctional attitudes, and mindfulness. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 44, 456-468.

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.

*Latorre, C., Leppma, M., Platt, L. F., Shook, N. J., & Daniels, J. (2021). The relationship between mindfulness and self-compassion for self-assessed competency and self-efficacy of psychologists-in-training. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.

*Ford, C. G., Kiken, L. G., *Haliwa I., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Negatively biased cognition as a mechanism of mindfulness: A review of the literature. Current Psychology.

*Haliwa, I., *Ford, C., G., *Wilson, J., & Shook, N. J. (2021). A multi-method assessment of a 10-day mobile mindfulness intervention. Frontiers in Psychology.

*Sevi, B., & Shook, N. J. (2021). The relation between disgust sensitivity and risk-taking propensity: A domain specific approach. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 950-968.

*Haliwa, I., *Wilson, J., *Lee, J., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Predictors of change in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders, 291, 331-337.

*Wilson, J., Strough, J., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Benefits of experience and knowledge for older adults’ monetary sequence preferences. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development.

*Wilson, J., *Sevi, B., Strough, J., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Age differences in risk taking: Now you see them, now you don’t. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

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

*Ford, C. G., *Haliwa, I., & Shook, N. J. (2021). Mind your gaze: Examining the relation between trait mindfulness and visual attention to valenced images. Behavioural Brain Research, 401, 113063.

*Wilson, J. M., *Lee, J., & Shook, N. J. (2020). COVID-19 worries and mental health: The moderating effect of age. Aging and Mental Health.

*Haliwa, I., *Lee, J., *Wilson, J. & Shook, N. J. (2020). Mindfulness and engagement in COVID-19 preventive behavior. Preventive Medicine Reports, 101246.

*Haliwa, I., *Wilson, J. M., *Spears, S. K., Strough, J., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Exploring facets of the mindful personality: Mindfulness and the Big Five. Personality and Individual Differences, 110469.

Shook, N. J., *Sevi, B., *Lee, J., *Fitzgerald, H. N., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020). Disease avoidance in the time of COVID-19: The behavioral immune system is associated with concern and preventative health behaviors. PLoS ONE, 15, e0238015.

*McCluskey, D. L., *Haliwa, I., *Wilson, J., Keeley, J., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Experiential avoidance mediates the relation between mindfulness and anxiety. Current Psychology.

Shook, N. J., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020). Testing the effects of pathogen threat and sexual strategies on political ideology. Politics and the Life Sciences, 39, 187-199.

*Wilson, J. M., *Lee, J., *Fitzgerald, H. N., Oosterhoff, B., *Sevi, B., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Job insecurity and financial concern during the COVID-19 pandemic are associated with worse mental health. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62, 686-691.

*Hood, K. B., Shook, N. J., Dunn, C., & Belgrave, F. (2020). The effect of affective versus cognitive persuasive messages on African American women’s attitudes toward condom use. Psychology and Health, 36, 739-759.

Ruisch, B. C., Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2021). Of unbiased beans and slanted stocks: Neutral stimuli reveal the fundamental relation between political ideology and exploratory behavior. British Journal of Psychology, 112, 358-361.

Oosterhoff, B., Palmer, C. A., *Wilson, J., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Adolescents’ motivations to engage in social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with mental and social health. Journal of Adolescent Health, 67, 179-185.
      Article recognition – The Distinguished Dozen: 2020 JAH Articles Making Distinguished Contributions to Adolescent and Young Adult Health

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

*Ford, C. G., *Wilson, J. M., **Altman, N., Strough, J., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Profiles of mindfulness across adulthood. Mindfulness, 11, 1557-1569.

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.

*Terrizzi, J. A., & Shook, N. J. (2020). On the origin of shame: Does shame emerge from an evolved disease-avoidance architecture? Frontiers Behavioral Neuroscience.

*Delaney, R. K., Strough, J., Shook, N. J., *Ford, C. G., & Lemaster, P. (2020). Don’t risk it. Older adults perceive fewer future opportunities and avoid social risk taking. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development.

*Wilson, J., **Weiss, A., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Mindfulness, self-compassion, and savoring: Factors that explain the relation between perceived social support and well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 152.

Shook, N. J., *Thomas, R., & *Ford, C. G. (2019). Testing the relation between disgust and avoidance behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 150.

*Sevi, B., **Altman, N., *Ford, C. G., & Shook, N. J. (2019). To kneel or not to kneel: Right-wing authoritarianism predicts attitudes toward NFL kneeling protests. Current Psychology.

Shook, N. J., *Delaney, R. K., Strough, J., *Wilson, J., *Sevi, B., & **Altman, N. (2019). Playing it safe: Dispositional mindfulness partially accounts for age differences in health and safety risk-taking propensity. Current Psychology.

Oosterhoff, B., Shook, N. J., & Iyer, R. (2018). Disease avoidance and personality: A meta-analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 77, 47-56.

Hernandez, P. R., *Hopkins, P. D., **Masters, K., Holland, L., Mei, B. M., Richards-Babb, M., Quedado, K., & Shook, N. J. (2018). Student integration into STEM careers and culture: A longitudinal examination of summer faculty mentors and project ownership. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 17, 1-14.

*Ford, C. G., & Shook, N. J. (2018). Negative cognitive bias and perceived stress: Independent mediators of the relation between mindfulness and emotional distress. Mindfulness, 10, 100-110.

*Kiken, L. G., Shook, N. J., Robins, J. L., & Clore, J. N. (2018). Association between mindfulness and interoceptive accuracy in patients with diabetes: Preliminary evidence from blood glucose estimates. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 36, 90-92.

*Oosterhoff, B., Shook, N. J., & Metzger, A. (2018). A Matter of fact? Adolescents’ informational assumptions about crime, laws, and authority and their domain-specific beliefs about punishment. Journal of Adolescence, 62, 87-95.

*Costello, A. H., Shook, N. J., *Wallace, N., & McNeil, C. B. (2018). Examining factors associated with elevated Lie Scale responding on the Child Abuse Potential Inventory. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 56-64.

*Oosterhoff, B., Shook, N. J., & *Ford, C. G. (2018). Is that disgust I see? Political ideology and biased visual attention. Behavioural Brain Research, 336, 227-235.

Shook, N. J., *Ford, C. G., Strough, J., *Delaney, R., & *Barker, D. (2017). In the moment and feeling good: Age differences in mindfulness and positive affect. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 338-347.

*Hopkins, P. D., & Shook, N. J. (2017). Development of an intergroup anxiety toward Muslims scale. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 61, 7-20.

Shook, N. J., *Ford, C. G., & **Boggs, S. (2017). Dangerous worldview: A mediator of the relation between disgust and social conservatism. Personality and Individual Differences, 119, 252-261.

*Oosterhoff, B., Shook, N. J., Clay, R., & Metzger, A. (2017). Differential and domain-specific associations among right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance, and adolescent delinquency. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 1296-1310.

Shook, N. J., *Oosterhoff, B., *Terrizzi, J. A., & **Brady, K. M. (2017). “Dirty politics”: The role of disgust sensitivity in voting. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 284-297.

*Hopkins, P. D., & Shook, N. J. (2017). A review of sociocultural factors that may underlie differences in African American and European American anxiety. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 49, 104-113.

*Oosterhoff, B., & Shook, N. J. (2017). From drug laws to recreational substance use: The adaptationist role of disgust sensitivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 544-553.

*Hood, K. B., Shook, N. J., & Belgrave, F. (2017). “Jimmy cap before you tap”: Memorable condom use messages for African American women. Journal of Sex Research, 54, 651-664.

Shook, N. J., *Hopkins, P. D., & **Koech, J. (2016). The effect of intergroup contact on secondary group attitudes and social dominance orientation. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 19, 328-342.

Shook, N. J., Terrizzi, J. A., Clay, R., & *Oosterhoff, B. (2015). In Defense of Pathogen Disgust and Disease Avoidance: A Response to Tybur et al. (2015). Evolution & Human Behavior, 36, 498-504.

*Kiken, L. G., & Shook, N. J. (2014). Does mindfulness attenuate thoughts emphasizing negativity, but not positivity? Journal of Research in Personality, 53, 22-30.

*Hood, K. B., & Shook, N. J. (2014). Who cares what others think? The indirect effect of other’s attitudes on condom use intentions. International Journal of Sexual Health, 26, 282-294.

*Terrizzi, J. A., *Clay, R., & Shook, N. J. (2014). Does the behavioral immune system prepare females to be religiously conservative and collectivistic? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 189-202.

Pietri, E., Fazio, R. H., & Shook, N. J. (2013). Recalibrating positive and negative weighting tendencies in attitude generalization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 1100-1113.

*Hood, K. B., & Shook, N. J. (2013). Conceptualizing women’s attitudes toward condoms use with the tripartite model. Women & Health, 53, 349-368.

Clay, R., Barber, J. M., & Shook, N. J. (2013). Techniques for measuring selective exposure: A critical review. Communication Methods and Measures, 7, 221-245.

Moriello, G., Cotter, J. J., Shook, N., Dodd-McCue, D., & Welleford, E. A. (2013). The effect of implicit stereotypes on the physical performance of older adults. Educational Gerontology, 39, 599-612.

Pietri, E., Fazio, R. H., & Shook, N. J. (2013). Weighting positive versus negative: The fundamental nature of valence asymmetry. Journal of Personality, 81, 196-208.

Mathews, M. A., & Shook, N. J. (2013). Promoting or preventing thanks: Regulatory focus and its effect on gratitude and indebtedness. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 191-195.

*Terrizzi, J. A., Shook, N. J., & McDaniel, M. A. (2013). The behavioral immune system and social conservatism: A meta-analysis. Evolution & Human Behavior, 34, 99-108.

*Clay, R., *Terrizzi, J. A., & Shook, N. J. (2012). Individual differences in the behavioral immune system and the emergence of cultural systems. Social Psychology, 43, 174-184.

Pietri, E., Fazio, R. H., & Shook, N. J. (2012). Valence weighting as a predictor of emotional reactivity to a stressful situation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31, 746-777.

Shook, N. J., & *Clay, R. (2012). Interracial roommate relationships: A mechanism for promoting sense of belonging at university and academic performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1168-1172.

*Terrizzi, J. A., Shook, N. J., & Ventis, W. L. (2012). Religious conservatism: An evolutionarily evoked disease-avoidance strategy. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2, 105-120.

*Kiken, L. G., & Shook, N. J. (2012). Mindfulness and emotional distress: The role of negatively biased cognition. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 329-333.

Shook, N. J., & *Clay, R. (2011). Valence asymmetry in attitude formation: A correlate of political ideology. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 650-655.

*Kiken, L. G., & Shook, N. J. (2011). Looking up: Mindfulness increases positive judgments and reduces negativity bias. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 425-431.

Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2011). Social network integration: A comparison of same-race and interracial roommate relationships. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 14, 399-406.

*Terrizzi, J. A., Shook, N. J., & Ventis, W. L. (2010). Disgust: A predictor of social conservatism and prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuals. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 587-592.

Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2009) Political ideology, exploration of novel stimuli, and attitude formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 995-998.

Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2008). Roommate relationships: A comparison of interracial and same-race living situations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 11, 425-437.

Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2008). Interracial roommate relationships: An experimental test of the contact hypothesis. Psychological Science, 19, 717-723.
      Reprinted in: A. Lesko (Ed.), (2012). Readings in Social Psychology: General, Classic, and Contemporary Selections. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Eiser, J. R., Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2007). Attitude learning through exploration: Advice and strategy appraisals. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 1046-1056.

Shook, N. J., Fazio, R. H., & Eiser, J. R. (2007). Attitude generalization: Similarity, valence, and extremity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 641-647.

Shook, N. J., Fazio, R. H., & Vasey, M. W. (2007). Negativity bias in attitude learning: A possible indicator of vulnerability to emotional disorder? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 38, 144-155.

Fazio, R. H., Eiser, J. R., & Shook, N. J. (2004). Attitude formation through exploration: Valence asymmetries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 293-311.
      Reprinted in: F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), (2011). New Directions in Social Psychology. New Delhi, India: Sage.

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