Curriculum Vitae
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1993
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California State University, Long Beach | B.A. | Psychology |
| 1995 | California State University, Long Beach | M.A. | Psychology |
| 2003 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Ph.D. | Psychology |
| 2004 | University of California, San Francisco | Post doc | Psych & Medicine |
2004-2008 Harvard University Assistant Professor Psychology
2008-2010 Harvard University John L. Loeb Associate Professor Psychology
2010-present UC San Francisco Sarlo/Ekman Endowed Chair Psychiatry
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2007-2010
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Harvard University
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Core Faculty
Robert Wood Johnson
Health and Society Program
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School of Public Health
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| 2008-2010 | Harvard University | Core Faculty | Center on the Developing Child |
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2010-present
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UC San Francisco
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Affiliated Faculty
Robert Wood Johnson
Health and Society Program
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Psychology and Medicine
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2010-present
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UC San Francisco
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Core Faculty
NIMH Affective Science
Pre-doc training grant
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UCSF/UC Berkeley/ Stanford/UC Davis |
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2011-present
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UC San Francisco
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Associate Director
NIMH Psych & Medicine
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Department of Psychiatry
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| 2008 | Society for Psychophysiology Research Program Committee |
| 2008 | Society for Personality and Social Psychology Program Committee |
| 2009 | Gordon Allport Award Selection Committee |
| 2010 | Co-Program Chair of SPSP 2011 Conference |
| 2010 | SPSP Committee for mid-career award in Personality Psychology |
| 2011 | SPSP Summer Institute in Social Psychology Steering Commitee |
| 2011 | Board member for the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology |
| 2011 | Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Executive Committee Member |
| 2005 - 2008 | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID |
| 2005 - 2008 | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP |
| 2006 - 2008 | Editorial Board Member, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
| 2006 - present | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology |
| 2009 - present | Editorial Board Member, Psychological Bulletin |
| 2009 - present | Editorial Board Member, Psychological Science |
| 2009 - present | Associate Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID |
| 2011 - present | Editorial Board Member: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General |
| 2011 - present | Associate Editor, Emotion Review |
AD HOC REVIEWER:
National Institute of Mental Health, MH12013
Transactional coping from a biopsychosocial perspective, 1998 – 2001
Pre-doctoral fellowship (NRSA)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant
Effects of stigmatization on cardiovascular reactivity, 1999
$20,000; P.I.
Robert Wood Johnson Health Disparities
Autonomic and neuroendocrine responses following discrimination: Effects of SES and race in a community sample, 2003-2005
$35,000; P.I.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and neuroendocrine and ANS activity, 2005 – 2010
Co-I (P.I.: Folkman)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Effects of discrimination on physical and mental health, awarded, 2006 - 2011 (RO1 HL079383)
$2.3m Co-P.I.; P.I. on subcontract
National Institute of Aging: Pilot Project for the Program of Global Demography of Aging
Cognitive functioning under stress: an examination of how physiological responses affect decision-making in older adults, 2006-2008
$20,597; P. I.
Research Enabling Grant, Harvard University
When is social contact effective at reducing inter-racial anxiety? 2007 - 2008
$67,500; P.I.
Robert Wood Johnson Grant
Neuroendocrine and cardiovascular consequences of expecting and experiencing discrimination, 2007-2008
$22,104; P.I.
National Institute of Mental Health
The disjunction between mental and physical health outcomes for African Americans, 2007 - 2010 (MH082620)
National Research Service Award
$184,404; Faculty Sponsor; Investigator: Akinola
The Alliance of Civilizations Foundation
How humiliation engenders anger, aggression, and retribution, 2007 - 2009
$50,000; P.I.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Metabolic and immunologic effects of meditation, 2009 – 2013
Co-I (P.I.: Hecht)
National Institute of Aging
The biology of resilience: Oxytocin, social relationships and health, 2008 – 2010, R21 AG030632 Co-I (PI: Kubzansky)
Templeton Foundation
The neurobiology of resilience and optimal aging: Oxytocin, social relationships, religious involvement, and health, 2009 - 2011
Co-I (P.I.: Kubzansky)
Mind, Brain, & Behavior Interfaculty Initiative
Contagiousness of racial bias: A psychophysiological examination of how mother's intergroup anxiety influences babies' preferences for social groups (with Elizabeth Spelke)
$20,000; P.I.
National Institute of Aging
Race-based social stress and health trajectories from adolescence to adult, 2010 - 2012,
1RC2AG036780
$985,000; co-P.I.
INVITED COLLOQUIA
Northeastern University, Social Psychology Area meeting, November, 2004
Tufts Psychology, Departmental Colloquium. March, 2005
Boston College, Affective Science Series, October, 2005
Harvard University, Department of Education, November, 2005
MGH, Nuclear Magnetic Imaging (NMR), June, 2006
UC San Francisco, Mind and Biology Seminar, January, 2007
UC San Francisco, Robert Woods Johnson Health Disparities Group, UCSF, February, 2007
UC San Francisco, Psychology and Medicine Seminar, February, 2007
UC Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Research, March, 2007
Stanford University, Social Area, April, 2007
UC Santa Barbara, Social Area, May, 2007
Dartmouth Minary Conference, August, 2007
Harvard University, Osher Center, November, 2007
Harvard University Clinical Area, December, 2007
Brandeis University, Departmental Colloquium, March, 2008
Northwestern University, Departmental Colloquium, April, 2008
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Social Area, September 2008
University of Connecticut, Social Area, February, 2009
Harvard School of Public Health, Robert Woods Johnson Health & Society, April 2009
University of Chicago, Business School, May 2010
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Mendes, W. B., Watson, J., Kelley, T., & Blascovich, J. (Sept. 1998). The effects of opposite-sex and same-sex supportive friends on cardiovascular reactivity during evaluative and non-evaluative tasks. Paper presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, CO.
Mendes, W. B. & Blascovich, J. (April, 1999). Cardiovascular reactivity during inter-racial interactions: Effects of race and status on phenomenological challenge and threat. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association (W. B. Mendes, Chair), Irvine, CA.
Mendes, W. B. & Blascovich, J. (June, 1999). Perceptions of stigmatization on cardiovascular reactivity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (W. B. Mendes, moderator), Denver, CO.
Mendes, W. B. (February, 2001). The utility of automatic and controlled measures during intergroup interactions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, symposium on social neuroscience (B. Bartholow, chair), San Antonio, TX.
Mendes, W. B. (April, 2001). Effects of interactions with counter-stereotypical persons on challenge and threat responses. Paper presented at the first meeting of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, symposium on stereotyping (M. Lieberman, chair), Los Angeles, CA.
Mendes, W. B. (March, 2003). Autonomic reactivity as a function of the perceptions of stigmatization. Paper presented at the American Psychosomatic Medicine Meeting, symposium on the Social Self and Health (M. Kemeny, chair), Phoenix, AZ.
Mendes, W. B. (May, 2004). Threatening social comparisons. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, symposium on social comparisons (D. Marx, chair), Chicago, IL.
Mendes, W. B. (September, 2004). Intergroup interactions and threat: A multi-method approach. New England Social Psychology Association.
Mendes, W. B. (Jan, 2005). Cardiovascular responses during threatening social comparisons. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, symposium on social comparisons (D. Marx, chair), New Orleans, LA.
Mendes, W. B. (May, 2005). Stigmatization and its physiological reactivity. Invited Hot Topic presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angelese, CA.
Mendes, W. B. (January, 2006). Overcorrection, compunction, or misattribution? The fractionation of automatic and consciously controlled measures in response to stigmatized partners. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, symposium on Stigma in the Age of Political Correctness (M. Norton, chair), Palm Springs, CA.
Mendes, W. B. (August, 2006). Intergroup emotions: The dark side of being positive. Paper presented at the International Society for Research in Emotions, symposium on Intergroup Emotions, Atlanta, GA.
Mendes, W. B. (August, 2006). Racial discrimination and its cardiovascular and neuroendocrine concomitants. Paper presented at the, American Psychological Association, symposium on Stigma and Discrimination, New Orleans, LA.
Mendes, W. B., (October, 2006). Overcorrection, compunction or misattribution? The fractionation of automatic and controlled measures during intergroup interactions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, symposium on self-regulation (D. Amodio), Vancouver, BC.
Mendes, W. B. (January, 2007). Physiological thriving: Neuroendocrine and cardiovascular concomitants of valence and motivation. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology pre-conference on Emotion, symposium on neurobiological aspects of emotion, Memphis, TN.
Mendes, W. B. & Koslov, K. (February, 2008). When biases emerge: Autonomic and neuroendocrine reactivity predict in-group preferences and stereotyped judgments when self-regulation is taxed. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, symposium on self-regulation, Albuquerque, NM.
Mendes, W. B. (February, 2009). Linking emotion and behavior across the developmental trajectory. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology pre-conference on Emotion, symposium on Emotion and Behavior (D. Desteno, chair), Tampa, FL.
Mendes, W. B. & Koslov, K. (February, 2009). Walking the line: Being an interdisciplinary social psychologist. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, symposium on Graduate Student training, Tampa, FL.
Mendes, W. B. (May, 2009). Expecting and experiencing discrimination. Paper presented at the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Mendes, W. B. (October, 2009). DHEA levels as an indicator of affective vulnerability. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Portland, ME.
Mendes, W. B. (January, 2010). Acute reactivity as a mediator of emotional states on physical health. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, symposium on Emotion Regulation and Self-Control: Basic Psychobiological Mechanisms and Applications to Public Health, Las Vegas, NV.
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
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
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.
30. *Cushman, F., *Gray, K., **Gaffey, A., & Mendes, W.B. (2011). Simulating murder: The aversion to harming others. Emotion. Available online ahead of print.
32. *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.
33. Major, B., Mendes, W.B. & Dovidio, J. (in press). Intergroup relations and health disparities: A social psychological perspective. Health Psychology.
38.*Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R. & Mendes, W.B. (revise-resubmit). The buffering effects of high-quality intergroup contact for everyday experiences of stress symptomatology. Journal of Social Issues.
39. Epel, E.S., Puterman, E., Lin, J., Blackburn, E. & Mendes, W.B. (revise-resubmit). Wandering minds and aging cells. Aging Cell.
40. Mendes, W.B., *Koslov, K. (revise-resubmit). Brittle smiles: Positive biases during inter-racial interactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
41. Ayduk, O., *Gyurak, A., *Akinola, M., Koslov, K. & Mendes, W.B. (submitted). Self-verification processes revealed in implicit and behavioral responses to feedback.
42. *Akinola, M., Mendes, W.B. (submitted). Limits of high social status: The importance of group membership on status effects.
43. *Kassam, K.S., Mendes, W.B. (submitted). The effects of measuring emotion: How people feel depends on whether someone is asking.
BOOKS:
1. Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Vanman, E., & Dickerson, S. (2011). Social Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology. Affective Science Series, SAGE.
REVIEW ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
8. Mendes, W.B. (forthcoming). Neurobiological responses underlying intergroup interactions. In P. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (Eds). APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology.
9. Mendes, W.B. (forthcoming). Mind-body interactions influence emotional states. In L.F. Barrett & J. Russell (Eds). Psychological construction of Emotion. New York, NY. Guilford Publications, Inc.
10. Mendes, W.B. (forthcoming). Exploiting brain and body changes to understand emotions, motivations and intentions during inter-racial interactions. In N. Ellemers (Ed). Social Neuroscience of Prejudice.
