New York Times Magazine article describes EHPL research on the benefits of stress during test-taking.
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Now accepting Applications for the Summer Internship Program 2013 at the Emotion, Health and Psychophysiology Lab at UC San Francisco!
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Professor Mendes talks to the Wall Street Journal about the positive side of stress responses:
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Welcome
In the Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab we study embodiment -- how the mind influences the body, and the reciprocal, how bodily changes influence thoughts, emotions, and intentions. For example, we study 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.
