Listed below are documents that have been released by Professor Mendes and the EHPL. To view a given document, click on the underlined link:
1. Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Hunter, S. & Salomon, K. (1999). Social facilitation as challenge and threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 68-77.
2. Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Major, B. & Seery, M. D. (2001). Challenge and threat responses during downward and upward social comparisons, European Journal of Social Psychology, 31,477-479.
3. 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.
4. Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Lickel, B., & Hunter, S. (2002). Challenge and threat during social interactions with White and Black men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 939-952.
5. Allen, K., Blascovich, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2002). Cardiovascular reactivity and the presence of pets, friends, and spouses: The truth about cats and dogs. Psychosomatic Medicine, 64, 727-739.
6. 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.
7. Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Tomaka, J., Salomon, K.,& Seery, M.D. (2003). The robust nature of the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat: A reply to Wright and Kirby. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 234-243.
8. Weisbuch-Remington, M., Mendes, W. B., Seery, M. D., & Blascovich, J. (2005). The nonconscious influence of religious symbols in motivated performance situations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1203-1216.
9. Epel, E. S., Lin, J., Wilhelm, F., Wolkowitz, O. M., Adler, N., Dolbier, C., Cawthon, R., Mendes, W. B. & Blackburn, E. (2006). Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31, 277-287.
10. Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Hunter, S., Lickel, B., & Jost, J. (2007). Threatened by the unexpected: Physiological responses during social interactions with expectancy-violating partners.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 698-716. *Winner of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize
11. Mendes, W. B., *Gray, H., Mendoza-Denton, Major, B. & Epel, E. (2007). Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: Physiological thriving during intergroup interactions. Psychological Science, 18, 991-998.
12. Nock, M. & Mendes, W. B. (2008). Physiological arousal, distress tolerance, and social problem solving deficits among adolescent self-injurers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76,28-38.
13. Gramzow, R., *Willard, G., & Mendes, W. B. (2008). Big tales and cool heads: Academic exaggeration is related to cardiac vagal reactivity. Emotion, 8, 138-144.
14. 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.
15. *Gray, H., Mendes, W. B., & **Denny-Brown, C. (2008). An in-group advantage in detecting intergroup anxiety. Psychological Science, 19, 1233-1237.
16. *Akinola, M. & Mendes, W. B. (2008). The dark side of creativity: Biological vulnerability and negative emotions lead to greater artistic creativity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34,1677-1686. *Winner of the SPSP best graduate student authored paper award 2008
17. *Navarrete, C. D., Olsson, A., *Ho, A., Mendes, W. B., *Thomsen, L. & Sidanius, J. (2009). Fear extinction to an out-group face: The role of target gender. Psychological Science, 20, 155-158.
18. Schmader, T., Forbes, C. E., Zhang, S., & Mendes, W. B. (2009). A meta-cognitive perspective on the cognitive deficits experienced in intellectually threatening environments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 584-596.
19. *Kassam, K., *Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2009). Decisions under distress: Stress profiles influence anchoring and adjustment. Psychological Science, 20, 1394-1399.
20. Kubzansky, L. D., Mendes, W. B., Appleton, A., Block, J. & Adler, G. (2009). Protocol for an experimental investigation of the roles of oxytocin and social support in neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and subjective responses to stress across age and gender. BMC Public Health, 9,481.
21. *Eliezer, D., Major, B., & Mendes, W. B. (2010). The costs of caring: Gender identification increases threat following exposure to sexism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46,159-165.
22. *Jamieson, J., Mendes, W. B., **Blackstock, E. & Schmader, T. (2010). Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 208-212.
23. *Waugh, C. E., Panage, S., Mendes, W. B., & Gotlib, I. H. (2010). Cardiovascular and affective recovery from anticipatory threat. Biological Psychology, 84, 169-175.
24. Mendes, W.B. (2010). Weakened links between mind and body in older age: A case for maturational dualism in the experience of emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 240-244.
25. *Page-Gould, E., Mendes, W. B., & Major, B. (2010). Intergroup contact facilitates physiological recovery following stressful intergroup interactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46,854-858.
26. *Townsend, S., Major, B., *Sawyer, P., & Mendes, W. B. (2010). Can the absence of prejudice be more threatening than its presence? It depends on one's worldview. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 933-947.
27. *Koslov, K., Mendes, W.B., **Pajtas, P., & Pizzagalli, D.A. (2011). Asymmetry in resting intracorticol activity as a buffer to social threat. Psychological Science, 22, 641-649.
28. *Eliezer, D., *Townsend, S.M., *Sawyer, P.J., Major, B., & Mendes, W.B. (2011). System justifying beliefs moderate the relationship between perceived discrimination and resting blood pressure. Social Cognition.
29. *Townsend, S.M., *Gangi, C., Major, B., & Mendes., W.B. (2011). From "in the air" to "under the skin": Cortisol responses to social identity threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 151-164.
30. *Cushman, F., *Gray, K., **Gaffey, A., & Mendes, W.B. (2011). Simulating murder: The aversion to harming others. Emotion. Available online ahead of print.
31. *Jamieson, J.P., Nock, M.K., & Mendes, W.B. (2011) Mind over matter: Reappraising physiological arousal improves cardiovascular responses to stress. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Available online ahead of print.
32. Major, B., Mendes, W.B. & Dovidio, J. (in press). Intergroup relations and health disparities: A social psychological perspective. Health Psychology.
33. Schmader, T., Croft, A., Lickel, B., Mendes, W.B. (in press). Not in mixed company: Emotional reactions to observed prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
34. *Akinola, M. & Mendes, W.B. (in press). Cortisol increases facilitate threat-related decision making among police officers. Behavioral Neuroscience. Available online ahead of print.
35. *Sawyer, P., Major, B., Casad, B.J., *Townsend, S. & Mendes, W.B. (in press). Discrimination and the stress response: Psychological and physiological consequences of anticipating prejudice in interracial interaction. American Journal of Public Health.
36. Kubzansky, L.D., Mendes, W.B., Appelton, A., Block, J., & Adler, G.K. (in press). A heartfelt response: Oxytocin and social stress. Biological Psychology.
37. Ayduk, O., *Gyurak, A., *Akinola, M., Koslov, K. & Mendes, W.B. (revise-resubmit). Self-verification processes revealed in implicit and behavioral responses to feedback. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
38. Epel, E.S., Puterman, E., Lin, J., Blackburn, E. & Mendes, W.B. (revise-resubmit). Wandering minds and aging cells. Aging Cell.
39. *Akinola, M., Mendes, W.B. (submitted). Limits of high social status: The importance of group membership on status effects.
40. Kassam, K.S. & Mendes, W.B. (submitted). The effects of measuring emotion: How people respond depends on whether people are asking.
41.*Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R. & Mendes, W.B. (submitted). The buffering effects of high-quality intergroup contact for everyday experiences of stress symptomatology.
42. *Kassam, K.S., Roebuck, P., Ellison, P., & Mendes, W.B. (submitted). Testosterone as cause and consequence of performance in a competitive context.
