Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

Assistant Professor
PhD  Social/Personality Psychology    Columbia University, 1999
B.A.   Psychology    Yale University, 1993

c/o Psychology Department
3210 Tolman Hall
Berkeley CA, California 94720-1650
rmd[at]berkeley[dot]edu
office: 510-642-7137   fax:  510-642-5293

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Research interests: Stigma, Prejudice, Intergroup Relations, Culture, Social Cognition

    
Recent publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(note: asterisk [*] denotes student collaborator at UC Berkeley)

Mendoza-Denton, R., & Goldman-Flythe, M.* (in press). Personality and racial/ethnic relations: a perspective from Cognitive-Affective Personality System (CAPS) theory. Journal of Personality.

Chen, S., Langner, C.A., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (in press). When dispositional and role power fit: Implications for self-expression and self-other congruence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Shaw-Taylor, L.*, Chen, S., & Chang, E.* (in press). Ironic effects of explicit gender prejudice on women’s test performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.017

Mendoza-Denton, R., & Page-Gould, E*. (2008). Can cross-group friendships influence minority students’ well being at historically White universities? Psychological Science, 19, 933-939.

Page-Gould, E.*, Mendoza-Denton, R., & Tropp, L. (2008). With a little help from my cross-group friends: Reducing intergroup anxiety through cross-group friendship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1080-1094.

Chan, W.Y.*, & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2008). Status-based rejection sensitivity among Asian Americans: Implications for psychological distress. Journal of Personality, 76, 1317-1346.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Pietrzak, J., & Downey, G. (2008). Distinguishing institutional identification from academic goal pursuit: Interactive effects of ethnic identification and race-based rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 338-351.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Park, S.H.*, & O’Connor, A*. (2008). Gender stereotypes as situation-behavior profiles. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 971-982. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.02.010

Mendoza-Denton, R., Kahn, K.*, & Chan, W.Y.* (2008). Can fixed views of ability boost performance in the context of favorable stereotypes? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1187-1193. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.03.005

Mendoza-Denton, R. & Hansen, N. (2007). Networks of meaning: Intergroup relations, cultural worldviews, and knowledge activation principles. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 68-83.

Mendes, W.B., Gray, H.M., Mendoza-Denton, R., Major, B., & Epel, E.S. (2007). Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: Physiological thriving during stressful intergroup encounters. Psychological Science, 18, 991-998. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.02014.x

Levy, S.R., Freitas, A.L., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Kugelmass, H. (2006). Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on African Americans’ and European Americans’ Endorsement of the Protestant Work Ethic. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 6, 75-85.

Kammrath, L., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Mischel, W. (2005). Incorporating if..then… signatures in person perception: Beyond the person-situation dichotomy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 605-613.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Downey, G., Purdie, V., Davis, A., & Pietrzak, J. (2002). Sensitivity to status-based rejection: Implications for African-American students' college experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 896-918.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Ayduk, O., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Testa, A. (2001). Person X Situation interactionism in self-encoding (I am…when…): Implications for affect regulation and social information processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 533-544.

Ayduk, O., Mendoza-Denton, R., Mischel, W., Downey, G., Peake, P.K., & Rodriguez, M. (2000). Regulating the interpersonal self: strategic self-regulation for coping with rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 776-792.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Ayduk, O., Shoda, Y., & Mischel, W. (1997). A cognitive-affective processing system analysis of reactions to the O.J. Simpson verdict. Journal of Social Issues, 53, 565-583.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Inzlicht, M., Aronson, J., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (in press). On being the target of prejudice: Educational implications. In F. Butera & J. Levine (Eds.) Coping with Minority Status: Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Mendoza-Denton, R., & Mischel, W. (2007). Integrating system approaches to culture and personality: The cultural cognitive-affective processing system (C-CAPS). In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds), Handbook of Cultural Psychology (pp. 175-195). New York: Guilford.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Park, S.*, & O’Connor, A*. (2007). Toward a science of the social perceiver. In G. Downey, Y. Shoda, & D. Cervone (Eds), Persons in Context: Building a Science of the Individual (pp. 211-225). New York: Guilford.

Mendoza-Denton, R., & Aronson, J. (2007). Psychosocial processes in the cultivation of intellective competence: The interpenetration of affective, cognitive, and situative processes in intellective behavior. In E.W. Gordon & B.L. Bridglall (Eds.), Affirmative development: Cultivating academic ability (pp. 189-205). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Page-Gould, E.*, & Pietrzak, J. (2006). Mechanisms for coping with status-based rejection expectations. In S. Levin & C. Van Laar (Eds.), Stigma and Group inequality: Social Psychological Approaches (pp. 151-169). Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.

McLaughlin-Volpe, T., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Shelton, N. (2005). Including out-group others in the self: Implications for coping with race-based rejection and alienation among minority students. In G. Downey, J. Eccles, & C. Chatman, (Eds). Navigating the future: Social identity, coping and life tasks (pp 191-209). New York: Russell Sage.

Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2004). Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality. In C. Morf & O.N. Ayduk, (Eds.), Current Directions in Personality Psychology (pp. 9-14). New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall. (note: reprint of Mischel, Shoda, & Mendoza-Denton, 2002)

Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2004). Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality. In T.F. Oltmanns & R. E. Emery (Eds.), Current Directions in Abnormal Psychology (pp. 24-29). New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall.(note: reprint of Mischel, Shoda, & Mendoza-Denton, 2002)

Mischel, W., Ayduk, O., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2003). Sustaining delay of gratification over time: A hot-cool systems perspective. In G. Loewenstein, D. Read, & R. Baumeister, (Eds.), Time and Decision: Economic and psychological perspectives on intertemporal choice (pp. 175-200). New York: Russell Sage.

Mischel, W., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2003). Harnessing willpower and socio-emotional intelligence to enhance human agency and potential. In L. G. Aspinwall & U. M. Staudinger, Eds., A psychology of human strengths: Fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology (pp. 245-256). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Shoda, Y., Ayduk, O., & Mischel, W. (1999). Applying cognitive-affective processing system theory to cultural differences in social behavior. In W. L. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, D. K. Forgays, & S. A. Hayes (Eds.). Merging past, present, and future in cross-cultural psychology. (pp. 205-217). Lisse, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Mendoza-Denton, R. (in press). Race-based rejection sensitivity. In D. Matsumoto (Ed.), Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology. Cambridge University Press.

Mendoza-Denton, R. (2008). Framed! (article addressing prejudice and the achievement gap). Greater Good Magazine, 5, 22-24.

Mendoza-Denton, R. (2008). Stigma. In W.A. Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (Vol., 8, pp. 146-148). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA

Bennett, A., Bridglall, B.L., Cauce, A.M., Everson, H.T., Gordon, E.W., Lee, C.D., Mendoza-Denton, R., Renzulli, J.S., & Stewart, J.K. (2004). All Students Reaching The Top: Strategies for Closing Academic Achievement Gaps. A report of the national study group for the affirmative development of academic ability. Naperville, IL: Learning Point Associates.

Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2002). Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 50-54

Mischel, W., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2002). Personality theories. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Bates (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (Vol. 16, pp. 11320-11326). Amsterdam: Pergamon

Mendoza-Denton, R., & Pietrzak, J. (2002). Student motivation: The culture and context of learning (book review). Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 75-78.


Recent Teaching

2 - Principles of Psychology
99 - Supervised Independent Study and Research
167AC - Stigma and Prejudice
H195B - Special Study for Honors Candidates
H195A - Special Study for Honors Candidates
198 - Directed Group Study
199 - Supervised Independent Study and Research
250B - Perspectives in Personality: Trends and Issues
290J - Social
299 - Research
300 - Teaching Psychology
301 - Supervision for Teaching Psychology 2

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