Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

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  1. *€Thorson, K. R., *€Gordon, A, M., **Ross, K. E., *del Rosario, K., Prather, A. A., & Mendes, W. B. (in press). A multimodal investigation of empathic stress during acute stress exposure in romantic couples: Does sleep deprivation play a role? Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.

  2. Allen, A. M., Mendes, W. B., West, T. V., *del Rosario, K., & *Brown, C. K. (in press).Alexithymia in dyadic interactions: associations with affective and sympathetic nervous system reactivity and empathic accuracy. Emotion.

  3. *Whitehurst, L. N., Silva-Jones, J. R., Krystal, A., Mendes, W. B., & Prather, A. A. (in press). The cost of racial sleep disparities for sleep-dependent memory processing. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.

  4. *Park, Y., *Guevarra, D. A., O’Bryan, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2026). The effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on romantic couples’ physiology and behavior during conflict. Stress, Anxiety, and Coping, 1-15.

  5. *Afulani, P….Mendes, W. B…& Neilands, T. (2026). Person-centered care across the maternal health continuum: evidence from a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the CPIPE trial in Kenya and Ghana. The Lancet Regional Health – Africa.

  6. *Park, Y., Kubzansky, L. K., & Mendes, W. B. (2026). Life satisfaction and blood pressure: A coordinated analysis of 16 datasets. Health Psychology, 45, 484-496.

  7. *Newman, D. B., *Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (in press). Income and education show distinct links to health and happiness in daily life. Nature Human Behaviour.

  8. *Tan, J. X., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (in press). Socioeconomic status shapes dyadic interactions: Examining behavioral and physiologic responses. Psychological Science.

  9. *del Rosario, K., Brown, C., West, T.V., *Siegel, E. H., & Mendes, W. B. (2025). Working through your emotions: Sadness predicts social engagement for men and social withdrawal for women in dyadic cooperative interactions. Emotion, 25, 1256-1272.

  10. Epel, E. S., *Don, B. P., Mayer, S. E., Blades, R., Mason, A. E., Fromer, E., *O’Bryan, J. F., *Dileo, R., *Guan, J. Y., Schilf, S. J., Cheng, S. S., Prather, A. A., & Mendes, W. B. (2025). A randomized controlled pilot trial of low and high arousal resilience interventions for depressive symptoms. Annals of behavioral medicine: a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 59(1).

  11. Stern, J., Roche, M., Shepherd, R., Hartogensis, W., Moran, P., Cockerham, L., Saraya, N., Rhodes, A., Cameron, P. U., Chang, J. J., Kumar, N., Mendes, W. B., Deeks, S. G., Hecht, F. M., & Lewin, S. R. (2025). The impact of acute stress on the HIV reservoir: a prospective interventional trial. Journal of virus eradication, 11(4), 100613.

  12. Silva-Jones, J. R., Smith, A., Marshburn, C. K., *Crosswell, A., Mendes, W. B., & *Whitehurst, L. N. (2025). Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory. Social Science and Medicine, 383.

  13. * €Trujillo, M., *€Newman, D., & Mendes, W.B. (2025). Daily experiences of stress and blood pressure among sexual minorities. Health Psychology, 44, 197-206.

  14. *Dutcher, E. G., *Verosky, S. C., Mendes, W. B., & *Mayer, S. E. (2024). Localizing somatic symptoms of childhood maltreatment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, e2318128121.

  15. *Don, B., *Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2024). The good, the bad, and the variable: Examining stress and blood pressure responses to close relationships. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 15, 288-298.

  16. **del Rosario, K., West, T. V., Mendes, W. B., Kunduzi, B., Mamode, N., & Gogalniceanu, P. (2024). How does surgeons’ autonomic physiology vary intraoperatively? A real-time study of cardiac reactivity. Annals of Surgery, 279, 258-266.

  17. *Newman, D. B., *Gordon, A. M., **O’Bryan, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2024). Stress reduction experiments in daily life: Scaling from the lab to the world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 1076-1092.

  18. *Park, Y., Prather, A. A., *Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2024). Better sleep and less stress following sex: Findings from a large-scale ecological momentary assessment study. Health Psychology, 43, 904-912.

  19. Gilmore, G. R., Smith, A., Dickinson, F. B., *Crosswell, A., Mendes, W. B., & *Whitehurst, L. N. (2024). Sleep/wake regularity influences how stress shapes executive function. Frontiers in Sleep, 3, 1359723.

  20. Blades, R., Mendes, W. B., *Don, B. P., Mayer, S. E., **Dileo, R. **O’Bryan, J., Fromer, E., **Guan, J. Y., Cheng, S. S., Mason, A. E., Prather, A. A., & Epel, E. S. (2024). A randomized controlled clinical trial of a Wim Hoff method intervention in women with depressive symptoms. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 20, 100272.

  21. Huang, A. J., Chesney, M., Schembri, M., Raghunathan, H., Vittinghoff, E., Mendes, W. B., Pawlowsky, S., & Subak, L. L. (2024). Efficacy of a therapeutic pelvic floor yoga program versus physical conditioning program on urinary incontinence in midlife and older women: A randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 177, 1339-1349.

  22. *Afulani, P., Akinyi, B., Ndhine, E., Kinyua, J., Okiring, J., Ochiel, D., Odiase, J., Mendes, W. B., & Ongeri, L. (2024). Mixed methods evaluation of the ‘caring for providers to improve patient experience’ intervention. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 165, 487-506.

  23. *Afulani, P., Getahun, M., Ongeri, L., Aborigo, R., Kinyua, J., Ogolla, B. A., Okiring, J., Moro, A., Oluoch, I., Dalaba, M., Odiase, O., Nutur, J., Mendes, W. B., Walker, D., & Neilands, T. (2024). A cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of the ‘Caring for Providers to Improve Patient Experience’ intervention on person-centered maternity care in Kenya and Ghana: Study Protocol. BMC Public Health, 24, 2509.

  24. *Park, Y., *Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2023). Age moderates physiological reactivity to daily emotional experiences. Affective Science, 4, 487-499.

  25. *Chen, R., **del Rosario, K. D., Lockman, A., Boehm, J., Santos, K. B., *Siegel, E., Mendes, W. B., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2023). Effect of induced optimism on subjective states, physical activity, and stress reactivity. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 592-605.

  26. Brinkman, H., McCarthy, D. E., Mendes, W. B., & *Leyro, T. (2023). An examination of cardiac vagal control indices and cognitive stress appraisal in cigarette smokers. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 48, 97-107.

  27. *Newman, D. B., *Gordon, A. M., Prather, A. A., & Mendes, W. B. (2023). Examining daily associations among sleep, stress, and blood pressure across adulthood. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57, 453-462.

  28. West, T. V. & Mendes, W. B. (2023). Affect contagion: Physiologic covariation and linkage offer insight into socially shared thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 67, 73-129.

  29. Lee, L. O., *Chen, R., Mendes, W. B., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2023). Lifespan psychosocial stressor, optimism, and hemodynamic acute stress response in a national sample. Health Psychology, 42, 172 - 181.

  30. Brinkman, H., Fedorenko, E., Hoyt, D., Mendes, W. B., & *Leyro, T. (2023). Cardiac vagal control among community cigarette smokers with low to moderate depressive symptoms. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 48, 159-169.

  31. *Afulani, P., Okiring, J., Aborigo, R., Nutor, J.J., Kuwolamo, I., Dorzie, J.B.K., **Semko, S., Okonofua, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2023). Provider implicit and explicit bias in person-centered maternity care: A cross-sectional study with maternity providers in Northern Ghana. BMC Health Services Research, 23.1,1-15.

  32. *Mak, H. W., *Gordon, A. M., Prather, A. A., Epel, E. S., & Mendes, W. B.  (2023). Leveraging a digital platform to measure stress and blood pressure in daily life. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85, 585-595.

  33. *Crosswell, A.D., Epel, E.S., Mendes, W.B., & Prather, A.A. (2022). Improving the language specificity of stress in psychological and population health science. Psychosomatic Medicine, 84, 643-644.

  34. *Park, J., *Woolley, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2022). The effects of intranasal oxytocin on Black participants’ responses to outgroup acceptance and rejection. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 916305-916305.

  35. Nutor, J. J., Aborigo, R. A., Okiring, J., Kuwolamo, I., Dorzie, J. B. K., Getahun, M., Mendes, W. B., & *Afulani, P. (2022). Individual and situational predictors of psychological and physiological stress and burnout among maternity providers in Northern Ghana. PLOS One, 15, 17e0278457.

  36. *Afulani, P., Ogolla, B. A., Oboke, E. N., Ongeri, L., Weiss, S. Lyndon, A., & Mendes, W.B. (2021). Understanding disparities in person-centered maternity care: The potential role of provider implicit and explicit bias. Health Policy and Planning, 36, 298-311.

  37. *Thorson, K. R., Dumitru, O. D., Mendes, W. B., & West, T. V. (2021). Influencing the physiology and decisions of groups: Physiological linkage during group decision-making. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24, 145-159.

  38. *Ballard, P.J., **Flores, A. J., *Muscatell, K. A., *Hoyt, L. T., & Mendes, W. B. (2021). An experimental laboratory examination of the psychological and physiological effects of civic empowerment: A novel methodological approach. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 50, 118-142.

  39. *Afulani, P., Ongeri, L., Kinyua, J., Temmerman, M., Mendes, W. B., & Weiss, S. (2021). Psychological and physiological stress and burnout among maternity providers in a rural county in Kenya: Individual and situational predictors. BMC Public Health, 21, 1-16.

  40. *Weissman, D. G. & Mendes, W. B. (2021). Correlation of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity during rest and acute tasks. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 162, 60-68.

  41. *Crosswell, A. D., *Whitehurst, L., & Mendes, W. B. (2021). Effects of acute stress on cognition in older versus younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 36, 241-251.

  42. *Brown, C. L., West, T. V., *Sanchez, A. H., & Mendes, W. B. (2021). Emotional empathy in the social regulation of distress: a dyadic approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 1004-1019.

  43. Vohs, K., Schmeichel, B., Gronau, Q., Wagenmakers, E-J., … **del Rosario, K., Mendes, W.B., **Nakahara, E., … & Albarracin, D. (2021). A multi-site, preregistered, paradigmatic test of the ego depletion effect. Psychological Science, 32, 1566-1581.

  44. *Park, J., **Carillo, B., & Mendes, W. B. (2021). Is vicarious stress functionally adaptive? Perspective-taking modulates the effects of vicarious stress on future firsthand stress. Emotion, 21, 1131-1143.

  45. *Gordon, A. M. & Mendes, W. B. (2021). A large-scale study of stress, emotions, and blood pressure in daily life using a digital platform. Proceedings of National Academy of Science, 118, 31.

  46. *Thorson, K. R., McKerman, S. M., West, T. V., Mendes, W. B., *Woolley, J., *Stauffer, C. S. (2021). Oxytocin increase physiological linkage during group therapy for methamphetamine use disorder: A randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports, 11, 1-12.

  47. *Newman, D., *Gordon, A., & Mendes, W. B. (2021). The influence of dispositional gratitude and optimism on health and well-being in daily life. Emotion, 21, 1357-1365.

  48. *Trujillo, M. & Mendes, W. B. (2021). An ignored minority status: How social psychology can contribute to understanding health consequences of LGBQ members. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 15.

  49. Aczel, B.,…, Mendes, W. B., …Wagenmakers, E-J. (2020). A consensus-based transparency checklist for social and behavioral researchers. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 4-6.

  50. Gross, J. J., Levenson, R. W., & Mendes, W. B. (2020). Affective Science. Affective Science, 1, 1-3.

  51. Puterman, E., Weiss, J., Gemmill, A., Karasek, D., Mendes, W. B., & Rehkopt, D. (2020). Predicting mortality among older adults in the United States: A prospective analysis of 56 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors. Proceedings of National Academy of Science, 117, 16273-16282.

  52. *Waters, S. F., **Karnilowicz, H. R., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2020). Keep it to yourself? Parent emotion suppression influences physiological contagion and interaction behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 784-793.

  53. *Thorson, K., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2020). Controlling the uncontrolled: Incidental experimenter effects on physiologic reactivity. Psychophysiology, 57, e13500. 

  54. **Karnilowicz, H. R., *Waters, S. F., & Mendes, W. B. (2019). Not in front of the kids: Effects of parental suppression on socialization behaviors during a cooperative parent-child interactions. Emotion, 19, 1183-1191.

  55. *Gordon, A., **Del Rosario, R., **Flores, A., Mendes, W.B., & Prather, A.A. (2019). Bidirectional links between social rejection and sleep. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81, 739-748.

  56. Huang, A., Grady, D., Mendes, W. B., Hernandez, C., Schembri, M., & Subak, L. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of device guided slow-paced respiration in women with overactive bladder syndrome. Journal of Urology, 202, 787-794.

  57. Daubenmier, J., Epel, E., Kemeny, M., Moran, P., Thompson, Mason, A., Acree, M., Goldman, Kristeller, J., Hecht, F. & Mendes, W. B. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention on cardiovascular reactivity to social-evaluative threat among adults with obesity. Mindfulness, 10, 2583-2595. 

  58. *Eckland, N. S., *Leyro, T. M., Mendes, W. B., & *Thompson, R. J. (2019). The role of physiology and voice in emotion perception during social stress. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43, 493-511.

  59. Ferrer, R. & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Emotion, health decision making, and health behavior. Psychology and Health, 33, 1-16.

  60. *Human, L. J., Woolley, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Effects of oxytocin administration on receiving help. Emotion, 7, 980-988.

  61. *Park, J., **Flores, A., Aschbacher, K. & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Is anger expression bad for African Americans’ health? The moderating role of chronic discrimination. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24, 303-318.

  62. *Eckland, N. S., *Leyro, T. M., Mendes, W.B., & *Thompson, R. J. (2018). A multi-method investigation of the association between emotional clarity and empathy. Emotion, 18, 638-645

  63. Epel, E. S., Prather, A. A., Croswell, A., Slavich, G., Puterman, E., & Mendes, W. B. (2018). More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Special Issue honoring Bruce McEwen, 49, 146-169.

  64. Hecht, F. M., Moran, M.D., Moskowitz, J., Epel. E.S, Bacchetti, P., Acree, M., Kemeny, M.E., Mendes, W.B, Duncan, L.G., Weng, H., Levy, J.A., & Folkman, S. (2018). A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction in HIV infection. Brian, Behavior, and Immunity, 73. 331-339.

  65. Fu, P., Gibson, C. J., Mendes, W. B., Schembri, M., & Huang, A. J. (2018). Anxiety, depressive symptoms, and cardiac autonomic function in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women with hot flashes: A brief report. Menopause, 25, 1470-1475.

  66. *Thorson, K. R., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Measuring physiological influence in dyads: A guide to designing, implementing, and analyzing dyadic physiologic studies. Psychological Methods, 23, 595-616.

  67. *Human, L. J. & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Cardiac vagal flexibility and accurate personality impressions: Examining a physiological correlate of the good judge. Journal of Personality, 86 1065-1077.

  68. *Hagan, M. J., Bush, N., Mendes, W. B., Arenander, J., Cohodes, E., Epel, E. S., & Puterman, E. (2017). Childhood adversity is related to daily coping strategies among those who are sensitive to context. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 30, 163-175.

  69. Gibson, C. J., Mendes, W. B., Schembri, M., Grady, D., & Huang, A. J. (2017). Cardiac autonomic function and hot flashes among perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. Menopause, 24, 756-761.

  70. *Human, L., *Thorson, K. R., Woolley, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2017). When two positives make a negative: Subtractive effects of pairing positive psychological and pharmacological inductions on emotions, social behavior and physiology. Hormones and Behavior, 90, 120-128.

  71. *Waters, S. F., West, T. V., **Karnilowicz, H. K. & Mendes, W. B. (2017). Affect contagion between mothers and babies: Exploring the role of touch and valence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1043-1051.

  72. *Gordon, A., Mendes, W. B., & Prather, A. (2017). The social side of sleep: Elucidating the links between sleep and social processes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 470-475.

  73. West, T. V., *Page-Gould, E., *Koslov, K., Major, B., & Mendes, W. B. (2017). Contagious anxiety: Intergroup anxiety potentiates physiological influence. Psychological Science, 28, 1796-1806.

  74. Mendes, W. B. (2016). Looking for affective meaning in "multiple arousal" theory: A comment to Picard, Fedor, & Ayzenberg. Emotion Review, 8, 77-79.

  75. Major, B., Kunstman, J. W., Malta, B. D., *Sawyer, P. J., Townsend, S. S., & Mendes, W. B. (2016). Why are you saying that? Suspicion of motives and minorities' responses to positive feedback in interracial interactions. Journal of Experiemental Social Psychology, 62, 75-88.

  76. Aschbacher, K., Derakhshandeh, R. **Flores, H., Narayan, S., Mendes, W. B., & Springer, M.L. (2016). Circulating angiogenic cell function is inhibited in vitro and associated with psychological stress and cortisol in vivo. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 67, 216-233.

  77. *Jamieson, J. P., & Mendes, W. B. (2016). Social Stress Facilitates Risk in Youths. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 467-485.

  78. *Human, L.J, **Thorson, K. R., & Mendes, W. B. (2016). Interactive effects between extraversion and oxytocin administration: Implications for positive social processes. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 7, 735-744.

  79. *Waters, S. F. & Mendes, W. B. (2016). Physiological and relational predictors of mother-infant behavioral coordination. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. doi:10.1007/s40750-016-0045-9

  80. *Muhtadie, L., *Koslov, K.,*Akinola, M., & Mendes, W. B. (2015). Vagal flexibility: A physiological predictor of social sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(1). 106-120.

  81. Schmader, T., & Mendes, W.B. (2015). Putting feelings in a social context: Three case studies applying Gross's extended model of emotional regulation. Psychological Inquiry, 26, 119-122. 

  82. *Waters, S. F., West, T., & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Stress contagion: Physiological covariation between mothers and infants. Psychological Science, 25(4), 934-942.

  83. *Shenhav, A. & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: Dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions. Emotion, 14(2). 301-309

  84. *Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R. & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Stress and coping in interracial contexts: The influence of race-based rejection sensitivity and cross-group friendship in daily experiences of health. Journal of Social Issues, 70, 256-278.

  85. *Townsend, S.S.M., *Eliezer, D., Major, B,. & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Influencing the world versus adjusting to constraints: Social class moderates responses to discrimination. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 5(2). 226-234.

  86. *McLaughlin, K. A., *Sheridan, M. A., **Alves, S., & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Child maltreatment and autonomic nervous system reactivity to psychosocial stress: Identifying dysregulated stress reactivity patterns using the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat. Psychosomatic Medicine, 76, 538-546.

  87. *Akinola, M. & Mendes, W. B (2013). It’s good to be the king: Neurobiological benefits of higher social standing. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 5, 43-51.

  88. *Kraus, M. W. & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Sartorial symbols: Cues of social class elicit congruent behavioral and physiological responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 2330-2340.

  89. *Jamieson, J.P., *Koslov, K., Nock, M.K., & Mendes, W. B. (2013). Experiencing discrimination increases risk-taking. Psychological Science, 24, 131-139.

  90. Epel, E. S., Puterman, E., Lin, J., Blackburn, E., & Mendes, W. B. (2013). Wandering minds and aging cells. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 75-83.

  91. *Jamieson, J. P., Mendes, W. B., & Nock, M. K. (2013). Improving stress responses: The power of reappraisals. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 51-56.

  92. Major, B., Mendes, W. B. & Dovidio, J. (2013). Intergroup relations and health disparities: A social psychological perspective. Health Psychology, 32, 514-524.

  93. *Jamieson, J. P., Mendes, W. B., & Nock, M. K. (2013). Changing the conceptualization of stress in social anxiety disorder: Affective and physiological consequences. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 363-374.

  94. *Kassam, K. S. & Mendes, W. B. (2013). The effects of measuring emotion: Physiological reactions to emotional situations depend on whether someone is asking. PLoS ONE, 8, e64959.

  95. Mendes, W. B. & *Koslov, K. (2013). Brittle smiles: Positive biases towards stigmatized and outgroup targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 923-933.

  96. Ayduk, O., Gyurak, A., *Akinola, M., & Mendes, W. B. (2013). Consistency over flattery: Self-verification processes revealed in implicit and behavioral responses to feedback. Social and Personality Psychological Science4, 538-545.

  97. *Cushman, F., *Gray, K., **Gaffey, A., & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Simulating murder: The aversion to harming others. Emotion, 12, 2 - 7.

  98. *Akinola, M. & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Stress-induced cortisol facilitates threat-related decision making among police officers. Behavioral Neuroscience, 126, 167-174.

  99. *Jamieson, J. P., Nock, M. K., & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Mind over matter: Reappraising arousal improves cardiovascular and cognitive responses to stress. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 417-422.

  100. Schmader, T., Croft, A., Scarnier, M., Lickel, B., & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Not in mixed company: Emotional reactions to observed prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 15, 379-392.

  101. *Sawyer, P., Major, B., *Casad, B. J., *Townsend, S., & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Discrimination and the stress response: Psychological and physiological consequences of anticipating prejudice in interracial interaction. American Journal of Public Health, 102, 1020-1026.

  102. Kubzansky, L. D., Mendes, W. B., Appelton, A., Block, J., & Adler, G. K. (2012). A heartfelt response: Oxytocin and social stress. Biological Psychology, 90, 1-9.

  103. *Koslov, K., Mendes, W. B., **Patjas, P., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2011). Asymmetry in resting intracortical activity as a buffer to social threat. Psychological Science, 22, 641-649.

  104. *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, 303-321.

  105. *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.

  106. *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.

  107. *Waugh, C. E., Panage, S., Mendes, W. B., & Gotlib, I. H. (2010). Cardiovascular and affective recovery from anticipatory threat. Biological Psychology, 84, 169-175.

  108. *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.

  109. Mendes, W. B. (2010). Weakened links between mind and body in older age: The case for maturational dualism in the experience of emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 240-244.

  110. *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.

  111. *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.

  112. *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.

  113. 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.

  114. *Kassam, K., *Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2009). Decisions under distress: Stress profiles influence anchoring and adjustment. Psychological Science, 20, 1394-1399.

  115. 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, 1-17.

  116. Nock, M. K. & 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.

  117. 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.

  118. 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.

  119. *Gray, H., Mendes, W. B., **Denny-Brown, C. (2008). An in-group advantage in detecting intergroup anxiety. Psychological Science, 19, 1233-1237.

  120. *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

  121. 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 for 2007

  122. Mendes, W. B., *Gray, H., Mendoza-Denton, R., Major, B. & Epel, E. (2007). Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: Physiological thriving during stressful intergroup encounters. Psychological Science, 18, 991-998.

  123. Epel, E. S., Lin, J., Wilhelm, F., Wolkowitz, O. M., Cawthon, R., Adler, N., Dolbier, C., Mendes, W. B., & Blackburn, E. H. (2006). Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31, 277-287.

  124. 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.

  125. 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.

  126. 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.

  127. 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.

  128. 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.

  129. 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.

  130. 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, 477-497.

  131. 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.

Under Review and In Preparation

  1. *Zhou, J. & Mendes, W. B. (resubmitted). Being alone is associated with daily blood pressure

    and happiness. Nature Human Behaviour.

  2. Mak, H. W., Schneider, S., *Rosa, C., Surachman, A., Epel, E. S., & Mendes, W. B.

    (resubmitted). Comparing four methods of assessing affect reactivity to daily stressors: consistent

    associations with mental health, physical health, and sociodemographic characteristics.

    Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.

  3. €Luerssen, A., *€Gordon, A. M., Ascigil, E., & Mendes, W. B. (resubmitted) Concurrent stress:

    A common pain point in couples’ lives? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

    Mendes, 17

  4. Baldwin, C., Rodriguez, M., Mendes, W. B., & McNally, R. (resubmitted). The body as a

    fundamental system of emotion regulation. Trends in Cognitive Science.

    136. Zhou, J., Martin, K., Richeson, J. S., & Mendes, W. B. (resubmitted). Everyday regulation,

    everyday inequities: Daily emotion regulation and blood pressure in Black and White Americans.

    Affective Science.

  5. *Hansen, E. G., Epel, E. S., Slavich, G., € Gee, D. G., & € Mendes, W. B. (resubmitted). Social

    threat and childhood security shape chronic stress, physiology, and relationships in daily life.

    Communications Psychology.

  6. *Monroy, M., *Martin, K., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (resubmitted). The black-white

    health paradox in daily life: Elevated blood pressure and enhanced coping and positive emotions

    among Black Americans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

  7. Pandya, L. S., Soltani, S., Hecht, F. M., Hartogenesis, W., Mendes, W. B., Epel, E. S., Smarr, B.

    L., & Mason, A. E. (revise-resubmit). Healthcare worker burnout and heart rate variability.

    PLOS One.

  8. *Monroy, M. & Mendes, W. B. (revise-resubmit). Intersectionality across the adult lifespan:

    Examining how gender, age, and SES are associated with stress and blood pressure in daily life.

    Stress and Health.

  9. *Don, B., Blades, R., *O’Bryan, J., **Dileo, R., Fromer, E., Prather, A., Epel, E., & Mendes,

    W. B. (revise-resubmit). Stress resilience: Do breathing interventions affect autonomic and

    emotional reactivity to acute stress? Scientific Reports.

  10. Jolink, T. A., Mendes, W. B., & Gordon, A. M. (submitted). Initial romantic interactions as

    motivated performance situations.

  11. Blades, R., Don, B., Mendes, W. B., *O’Brien., J., Epel, E.S., & Prather, A. A. (submitted).

    Can dried blood spots detect the IL-6 inflammatory response to an acute psychological stressor?

  12. *Chen, M. S., Bi, K., & Mendes, W. B. (submitted). Linking early life adversity to physiological

    and affective responses to daily stress.

  13. Wang, T., Smith, A. L., Silva-Jones, J. R., Mendes, W. B., & *Whitehurst, L. N. (submitted).

    Beyond the mean: Sequence analysis methods for clustering ordinal EMA data.

  14. *Chen, M. S. & Mendes, W. B. (submitted). Mapping psychological contexts onto autonomic

    space: Bivariate RSA and PEP profiling across acute stress, cognitive control, and emotion

    regulation.

  15. Cummings, K. E., Keller, B. L., Brinkman, H. R., *Thompson, R. J., Mendes, W. B., Farris, S.

    G., & *Leyro, T. M. (submitted). Evaluation of the role of anxiety sensitivity in stress appraisal

    processes.

  16. Starks, M. D., Alvarez, G. M., Jenkins, A. C., Hsu, M., Mendes, W. B., & *Muscatell, K. A.

    (submitted). The neural correlates of anticipating and receiving cross-race social feedback.

  17. Ongeri, L., Aborigo, R., Okiring, J., Kinyua, J., Moro, A., Ogolla, B. A., Dalaba, M., Getahun,

    M., Oluoch, M., Odiase, O., Ayibasiya, D., Oluoch, I., Ouner, J. J., Mendes, W. B., Walker, D.,

    Neilands, T. B., & *Afulani, P. A. (submitted). Occupational and individual level correlates of

    perceived stress among maternal healthcare providers in Kenya and Ghana: baseline results

    from the CPIPE trial.

  18. Jolink, T., *Gordon, A. M., & Mendes. W. B. (submitted). The social body: Biological

    underpinnings of initiating, sustaining, and ending romantic relationships.

  19. Cheng, Z., **Liu, Z., *Zhou, J., Shenhav, A., & Mendes, W. B. (submitted). Dissociable

    influences of positive and negative incentives on psychophysiological states during mental effort

    allocation.

  20. *Park, Y., *Monroy, M., *Concepion, C. J., Krystal, A., Mendes, W.B., & Prather, A. A. (in

    preparation). The effects of social rejection on sleep: Evidence from Black and White Americans.

  21. *Monroy, M., **Concepcion, CJ., **Argueta, E., Mendes, W. B., & Prather, A. A. (in

    preparation) Sleep deprivation blunts physiological, cognitive, and subjective responses during

    inter-racial interactions in Black Americans.

  22. *Okafor, G., *Bland-Abramson, S., Leonard, M., & Mendes, W. B. (in preparation). Effects of

    repeated transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation on cognitive inhibition and emotion recognition

    tasks.

  23. Harrington, A. *G., Gordon, A. M., Mendes, W. B., & *Don, B. P. (in preparation) Income

    inequality is maladaptively associated with positive and negative emotions in a highly powered

    daily experience study in the United States.

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS

Book

  1. Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Vanman, E. & Dickerson, (2011). Social Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology. Affective Science Series, SAGE.

Edited Book

  1. Gilbert, D. T., Fiske, S., T., Finkel, E., & Mendes, W. B. (2025). Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th Edition

Chapters

  1.  Mendes, W. B. (2025). Social Neuroendocrinology. In: H. Reis, T. V. West, & C. Judd (Eds.). Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology, 3rd Edition.

  2. *Gordon, A. M., Mendes, W. B., & Prather, A. A. (2019). Sleep and Social Processes. In: Z. Krizan (Ed.). Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior. (pp. 3-12).

  3. Mendes, W. B. (2019). Emotion. In R. Baumeister & E. Finkel (Eds). Advanced Social Psychology, 2nd edition. (pp. 325-342).

  4. Mendes, W. B. & *Muscatell, K. A. (2018). Affective responses as mediators of the relationship between stigma and health. In B. Major, J. Dovidio, & B. Link (Eds). The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination, and health (pp. 265-283). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

  5. Mendes, W. B. (2016). Emotion and the Autonomic Nervous System. In L. E. Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.). Handbook of Emotions, 4th edition (pp. 166-181). New York: NY: Guilford Publications, Inc.

  6. Mendes, W. B. & *Park, J. (2014). Neurobiological Concomitants of Motivational States. In Advances in Motivational Science (pg. 233-270). Academic Press.

  7. Mendes, W. B. (2013). Inspired by the question not the measure: Exploiting neurobiological responses in the service of intergroup research. In N. Ellemers, D. Scheepers, and B. Derks (Eds). Social Neuroscience of Prejudice.

  8. Mendes, W. B. & *Jamieson, J. (2012). Embodied stereotype threat: Exploring brain and body mechanisms underlying performance impairments (pp. 51-68). In: M. Inzlicht & T. Schmader (Eds.). Stereotype threat: Theory, process, and application. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

  9. Blascovich, J. & Mendes, W. B. (2010). Social psychophysiology and embodiment. In: S. T. Fiske, Gilbert, D. T., Lindzey, G. (Eds.). The handbook of social psychology, 5th Edition (pp. 194-227). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

  10. Mendes, W. B. (2009). Assessing the autonomic nervous system. In: E. Harmon-Jones and J.S. Beer (Eds.) Methods in social neuroscience, (pp.118-147). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

  11. Mendes, W. B. (2007). Social Facilitation. Encyclopedia of social psychology, R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds).

  12. Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., & Seery, M.D. (2002). Intergroup encounters and threat: A multimethod approach. In D. M. Mackie & E. R. Smith (Eds.). From prejudice to intergroup emotions: Differentiated reactions to social groups (pp. 89-109). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

  13. Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Hunter, S., & Lickel, B. (2000). Stigma, threat, and social interactions. In: Heatherton, Kleck, Hebl, & Hull (Eds.). The social psychology of stigma (pp. 307-333). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

  14. Blascovich, J. & Mendes, W. B. (2000). Challenge and threat appraisals: The role of affective cues. In Forgas, J. (Ed.). Feeling and thinking: The role of affect in social cognition (pp. 59-82). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.