Wendy Berry Mendes
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland, William James Hall
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (617) 495-3863
My research focuses on embodiment -- how the mind influences the body, and the reciprocal, how bodily changes influence thoughts, emotions, and intentions. Some of the current reseach examines how emotions are experienced differently along the developmental trajectory, how aging influences risk perceptions and risk taking, how decisions are influenced by acute and chronic stress, and how people manage and attempt to control their racial biases and how those regulatory attempts often fail resulting in revealing greater racial bias.
 Journal Articles:
- Akinola, M. & Mendes, W. B. (2008). The dark side of creativity: biological vulnerability and negative mood leads to greater artistic creativity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1677-1686.
- Allen, K., Blascovich, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2002). Cardiovascular reactivity and the presence of pets and spouses: The truth about cats and dogs. Psychosomatic Medicine.
- Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Hunter, S., Lickel, B., & Kowai-Bell, N. (2001). Perceiver threat in social interactions with stigmatized others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 253-267.
- Gramzow, R., Willard, G., & Mendes, W. B. (2008). Big tales and cool heads: GPA exaggeration is related to increased parasympathetic activation. Emotion, 8, 138-144.
- Gray, H., Mendes, W. B., Denny-Brown, C. (2008). An in-group advantage to detecting intergroup anxiety. Psychological Science, 19, 1233-1237.
- Jamieson, J., Mendes, W. B., Blackstock, E. & Schmader, T. (in press). Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Kassam, K., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (in press). Decisions under distress: Stress profiles influence anchoring and adjustment. Psychological Science.
- Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Hunter, S., Lickel, B., & Jost, J. (2007). Threatened by the unexpected: Challenge and threat during inter-ethnic interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, April, 698-716.
- Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Lickel, B., & Hunter, S. (2002). Cardiovascular reactivity during social interactions with White and Black men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 939-952.
- Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Major, B., & Seery, M. D. (2001). Challenge and threat during upward and downward social comparisons, European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 477-479.
- Mendes, W. B., Gray, H., Mendoza-Denton, Major, B. & Epel, E. (2007) Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: Physiological thriving during inter-racial interactions. Psychological Science, 18, 991-998.
- Mendes, W. B., Major, B., McCoy, S., & Blascovich, J. (2008). How attributional ambiguity shapes physiological and emotional responses to social rejection and acceptance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 278-291.
- Mendes, W. B., Reis, H., Seery, M. D., & Blascovich, J. (2003). Cardiovascular correlates of emotional expression and suppression: Do content and gender context matter? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 771-792.
- Nock, M. K. & Mendes, W. B. (2008). Physiological arousal, distress tolerance, and social problem solving deficits among adolescent self-injurers. Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, 76, 26-38,
Other Publications:
- Mendes, W. B. (2009). Assessing the autonomic nervous system. In: E. Harmon-Jones and J. Beer (Eds.) Methods in Social Neuroscience. Guilford Press.
|
 | |