Director of HPL
Psychiatry
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Wendy Berry Mendes is the Sarlo/Ekman Professor of Emotion at UC San Francisco. Her research questions sit at the intersection of social, personality, and biological psychology and primarily concern questions regarding embodiment - how emotions, thoughts, and intentions are experienced in the body and how bodily responses shape and influence thoughts, behavior and emotions. Some current research areas include coping with stigma and discrimination, dyadic intergroup interactions, affect contagion, mind-body relations across the life course, influence of emotional labeling on emotional experience, and effects of stress on decision-making.
Publications
Acute and chronic stress associations with blood pressure: An ecological momentary assessment study on an app-based platform.
Psychosomatic medicine
Provider implicit and explicit bias in person-centered maternity care: a cross-sectional study with maternity providers in Northern Ghana.
BMC health services research
Lifespan psychosocial stressors, optimism, and hemodynamic acute stress response in a national sample.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Cardiac Vagal Control Among Community Cigarette Smokers with Low to Moderate Depressive Symptoms.
Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback
An Examination of Cardiac Vagal Control Indices and Cognitive Stress Appraisal in Cigarette Smokers.
Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback
The effects of intranasal oxytocin on black participants' responses to outgroup acceptance and rejection.
Frontiers in psychology
Detecting Physiological Responses Using Multimodal Earbud Sensors.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Improving the language specificity of stress in psychological and population health science.
Psychosomatic medicine
Comparing daily physiological and psychological benefits of gratitude and optimism using a digital platform.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Oxytocin increases physiological linkage during group therapy for methamphetamine use disorder: a randomized clinical trial.
Scientific reports
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect.
Psychological science
A large-scale study of stress, emotions, and blood pressure in daily life using a digital platform.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Is vicarious stress functionally adaptive? Perspective-taking modulates the effects of vicarious stress on future firsthand stress.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Understanding disparities in person-centred maternity care: the potential role of provider implicit and explicit bias.
Health policy and planning
[Venetoclax with low-dose cytarabine for patients with untreated acute myeloid leukemia ineligible for intensive chemotherapy: results from the Chinese cohort of a phase three randomized placebo-controlled trial].
Zhonghua xue ye xue za zhi = Zhonghua xueyexue zazhi
Psychological and physiological stress and burnout among maternity providers in a rural county in Kenya: individual and situational predictors.
BMC public health
Correlation of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity during rest and acute stress tasks.
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology
Effects of acute stress on cognition in older versus younger adults.
Psychology and aging
Emotional Empathy in the Social Regulation of Distress: A Dyadic Approach.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
Predicting mortality from 57 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Keep it to yourself? Parent emotion suppression influences physiological linkage and interaction behavior.
Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)
Affective Science.
Affective science
A consensus-based transparency checklist.
Nature human behaviour
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist.
Nature human behaviour
Controlling the uncontrolled: Are there incidental experimenter effects on physiologic responding?
Psychophysiology
Bidirectional Links Between Social Rejection and Sleep.
Psychosomatic medicine
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Device-Guided Slow-Paced Respiration In Women with Overactive Bladder Syndrome.
The Journal of urology
Anxiety, depressive symptoms, and cardiac autonomic function in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women with hot flashes: a brief report.
Menopause (New York, N.Y.)
Not in front of the kids: Effects of parental suppression on socialization behaviors during cooperative parent-child interactions.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in HIV Infection.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
When anger expression might be beneficial for African Americans: The moderating role of chronic discrimination.
Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology
Cardiac vagal flexibility and accurate personality impressions: Examining a physiological correlate of the good judge.
Journal of personality
More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.
Frontiers in neuroendocrinology
Emotion, health decision making, and health behaviour.
Psychology & health
Measuring physiological influence in dyads: A guide to designing, implementing, and analyzing dyadic physiological studies.
Psychological methods
A multi-method investigation of the association between emotional clarity and empathy.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Effects of oxytocin administration on receiving help.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Contagious Anxiety: Anxious European Americans Can Transmit Their Physiological Reactivity to African Americans.
Psychological science
The social side of sleep: Elucidating the links between sleep and social processes.
Current directions in psychological science
Cardiac autonomic function and hot flashes among perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.
Menopause (New York, N.Y.)
Affect contagion between mothers and infants: Examining valence and touch.
Journal of experimental psychology. General
Combining oxytocin administration and positive emotion inductions: Examining social perception and analytical performance.
Hormones and behavior
Associations between childhood adversity and daily suppression and avoidance in response to stress in adulthood: can neurobiological sensitivity help explain this relationship?
Anxiety, stress, and coping
Physiological and Relational Predictors of Mother-Infant Behavioral Coordination.
Adaptive human behavior and physiology
Circulating angiogenic cell function is inhibited by cortisol in vitro and associated with psychological stress and cortisol in vivo.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Social stress facilitates risk in youths.
Journal of experimental psychology. General
Suspicion of Motives Predicts Minorities' Responses to Positive Feedback in Interracial Interactions.
Journal of experimental social psychology
Vagal flexibility: A physiological predictor of social sensitivity.
Journal of personality and social psychology
Sartorial symbols of social class elicit class-consistent behavioral and physiological responses: a dyadic approach.
Journal of experimental psychology. General
Child maltreatment and autonomic nervous system reactivity: identifying dysregulated stress reactivity patterns by using the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat.
Psychosomatic medicine
Stress and coping in interracial contexts: The influence of race-based rejection sensitivity and cross-group friendship in daily experiences of health.
The Journal of social issues
Stress contagion: physiological covariation between mothers and infants.
Psychological science
Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Intergroup relations and health disparities: a social psychological perspective.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Experiencing discrimination increases risk taking.
Psychological science
Brittle smiles: positive biases toward stigmatized and outgroup targets.
Journal of experimental psychology. General
Discrimination and the stress response: psychological and physiological consequences of anticipating prejudice in interethnic interactions.
American journal of public health
A heartfelt response: Oxytocin effects on response to social stress in men and women.
Biological psychology
Stress-induced cortisol facilitates threat-related decision making among police officers.
Behavioral neuroscience
Mind over matter: reappraising arousal improves cardiovascular and cognitive responses to stress.
Journal of experimental psychology. General
Simulating murder: the aversion to harmful action.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Asymmetry in resting intracortical activity as a buffer to social threat.
Psychological science
From "in the air" to "under the skin": cortisol responses to social identity threat.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
Can the absence of prejudice be more threatening than its presence? It depends on one's worldview.
Journal of personality and social psychology
Intergroup Contact Facilitates Physiological Recovery following Stressful Intergroup Interactions.
Journal of experimental social psychology
Cardiovascular and affective recovery from anticipatory threat.
Biological psychology
Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE.
Journal of experimental social psychology
Decisions under distress: stress profiles influence anchoring and adjustment.
Psychological science
A metacognitive perspective on the cognitive deficits experienced in intellectually threatening environments.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
Fear extinction to an out-group face: the role of target gender.
Psychological science
An in-group advantage in detecting intergroup anxiety.
Psychological science
The dark side of creativity: biological vulnerability and negative emotions lead to greater artistic creativity.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
Big tales and cool heads: academic exaggeration is related to cardiac vagal reactivity.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
How attributional ambiguity shapes physiological and emotional responses to social rejection and acceptance.
Journal of personality and social psychology
Physiological arousal, distress tolerance, and social problem-solving deficits among adolescent self-injurers.
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: physiological thriving during stressful intergroup encounters.
Psychological science
Threatened by the unexpected: physiological responses during social interactions with expectancy-violating partners.
Journal of personality and social psychology
Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
The nonconscious influence of religious symbols in motivated performance situations.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
Cardiovascular correlates of emotional expression and suppression: do content and gender context matter?
Journal of personality and social psychology
The robust nature of the biopsychosocial model challenge and threat: a reply to Wright and Kirby.
Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc
Social "facilitation" as challenge and threat.
Journal of personality and social psychology