Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Department of Psychology
3210 Tolman Hall
UC--Berkeley, Mail Code 1650
Berkeley, California 94720
United States
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Phone: 510-642-5292
Fax: (510) 642-5293
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton has lived in Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, and the United States. These travels cemented an early interest in culture and intergroup relations. After receiving his B.A. at Yale University, he pursued a Ph.D. in social psychology at Columbia University under the mentorship of Walter Mischel and Geraldine Downey. He remained at Columbia for postdoctoral training, and joined the psychology faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. His professional interests include stereotyping and prejudice from the perspective of both target and perceiver, intergroup relations, cultural psychology, and educational achievement.
 Books:
- Marsh, J.H., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Adam Smith, J. (in press). Are We Born Racist? New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Journal Articles:
- Chen, S., Langner, C.A., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2009). When dispositional and role power fit: Implications for self-expression and self-other congruence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 710-727. DOI: 10.1037/a0014526
- Mendoza-Denton, R., & Goldman-Flythe, M. (2009). Personality and racial/ethnic relations: a perspective from Cognitive-Affective Personality System (CAPS) theory. Journal of Personality, 77, 1261-1282. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00581.x
- Mendoza-Denton, R., Goldman-Flythe, M., Pietrzak, J., Downey, G., & Aceves, M. (in press). Group value ambiguity: Understanding the effects of academic feedback on minority students’ self-esteem. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- 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., & Page-Gould, E. (2008). Can cross-group friendships influence minority students’ well being at historically White universities? Psychological Science, 19, 933-939.
- 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., 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., Shaw-Taylor, L., Chen, S., & Chang, E. (2009). Ironic effects of explicit gender prejudice on women’s test performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 275-278. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.017
- Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., Alegre, J.M., & Siy, J.O. (in press). Understanding the impact of cross-group friendship on interactions with novel outgroup members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 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.
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