Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

     
Institution
University of California, Berkeley

Current Position
Assistant Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from Columbia University, 1999

Research Interests
Conflict Resolution
Culture/Ethnicity
Group Processes
Health
Intergroup Relations
Person Perception
Personality
Prejudice/Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Laboratory Home Page
Relationships and Social Cognition Laboratory

Courses Taught
Stigma and Prejudice
Writing Workshop

 
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Department of Psychology
3210 Tolman Hall
UC--Berkeley, Mail Code 1650
Berkeley, California 94720
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (510) 642-7137
Fax: (510) 642-5293

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton was born and raised in Mexico City. As a child, he 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 became an assistant professor 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, and cultural psychology.


Journal Articles:

  • 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.
  • Chan, W. Y., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (in press). Status-based rejection sensitivity among Asian Americans: Implications for psychological distress. Journal of Personality.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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., & Hansen, N. (2007). Networks of meaning: Intergroup relations, cultural worldviews, and knowledge activation principles. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 68-83.
  • 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.
  • Mendoza-Denton, R., & Page-Gould, E. (in press). Can cross-group friendships influence minority students' well being at historically White universities? Psychological Science.
  • Mendoza-Denton, R., Park, S. H., & O'Connor, A. (2008). Gender stereotypes as situation-behavior profiles. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 971-982.
  • 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. (in press). Ironic effects of explicit gender prejudice on women's test performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Tropp, L. (in press). With a little help from my cross-group friends: Reducing intergroup anxiety through cross-group friendship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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