Early Life and Educational Background
Holden was born on April 10, 1988 in Cary, North Carolina. He earned his B.S. in Psychology from Western Carolina University in 2010 and his M.A. in Psychology from the same institution in 2012. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Oakland University under the direction of Virgil Zeigler-Hill.
Professional Career
Holden has taught at Western Carolina University since 2016. As a graduate student, and throughout his early career, Holden has authored over 20 publications. These publications have appeared in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Evolutionary Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Research Interests
Holden’s primary area of research involves investigating how aspects of self-esteem influence the ways in which individuals maintain their romantic relationships. More specifically, his research attempts to understand how relationship-contingent self-esteem (i.e.,...
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Holden, C. J., Zeigler-Hill, V., Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2014a). Personality features and mate retention strategies: Honesty-humility and the willingness to manipulate, deceive, and exploit romantic partners. Personality and Individual Differences, 57, 31–36.
Holden, C. J., Shackelford, T. K., Zeigler-Hill, V., Starratt, V. G., Miner, E. J., Kaighobadi, F., Jeffery, A. J., & Buss, D. M. (2014b). Husband’s esteem predicts their mate retention tactics. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 655–672.
Holden, C. J., Roof, C. H., McCabe, G., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2015). Detached and antagonistic: Pathological personality features and mate retention behaviors. Personality and Individual Differences, 83, 77–84.
Pham, M. N., Shackelford, T. K., Holden, C. J., Zeigler-Hill, V., Sela, Y., & Jeffery, A. J. (2015). Men’s benefit-provisioning mate retention behavior mediates the relationship between their agreeableness and their oral sex behaviors. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1723–1728.
Zeigler-Hill, V., Holden, C. J., Enjaian, B., Southard, A. C., Besser, A., Li, H., & Zhang, Q. (2015). Self-esteem instability and personality: The connections between feelings of self-worth and the Big Five dimensions of personality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 183–198.
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Holden, C.J. (2016). Holden, Christopher. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2292-1
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