Catherine Wall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Thurston House 301
Social
Health
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2025
Research Interests
Dr. Catherine Wall's work exists at the intersection of social and health psychology, where she engages in two distinct, but related, lines of work. In the first, she examines systems of health through the lens of trans health. In her second line of work, she explores medical misinformation with an eye towards interventions intended to reduce individual susceptibility to misinformation. Some of recent work explores transgender experiences in the current sociopolitical context, examines historical research about transgender health, and explores social influence as a potential pathway towards reducing susceptibility to medical misinformation.
Select Publications
Wall, C.S.J., Duffy, C., Cull, S., Cardinale-McGinnis, G., Otieno, J., Mardigian, F., Easter, R., & Benotsch, E.G. (In Press). “An environment of fear wherever I go”: A mixed-methods examination of the perspectives and experiences of transgender and gender diverse individuals in the face of anti-transgender legislation. American Psychologist.
Wall, C.S.J., Patev, A.J., & Benotsch, E.G. (2023). Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning. Social Science & Medicine, 320, 115748.
Wall, C.S.J., Mason, K.L., Smout, S.A., O’Neill, K.A., Stanford, M.K., Carrico, M., & Benotsch, E.G. (2022). Having a community helps: Environmental context influences the impact of outness on psychological distress in gender minority populations. Stigma and Health, 7(4), 414-422
Courses
Application of Statistics, Undergraduate
Experimental Methods, Undergraduate
Health Psychology, Undergraduate
Psychology of Women, Undergraduate