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Wendy Berry Mendes
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 130
Citations - 10415
Wendy Berry Mendes is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 117 publications receiving 8841 citations. Previous affiliations of Wendy Berry Mendes include University of California, Santa Barbara & Harvard University.
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Perceiver threat in social interactions with stigmatized others.
TL;DR: Intergroup contact moderated physiological reactivity such that participants who reported more contact with Black persons exhibited less physiological threat when interacting with them and the utility of a biopsychosocial approach to the study of stigma and related constructs is suggested.
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Cardiovascular reactivity and the presence of pets, friends, and spouses: the truth about cats and dogs.
TL;DR: People perceive pets as important, supportive parts of their lives, and significant cardiovascular and behavioral benefits are associated with those perceptions.
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Physiological Arousal, Distress Tolerance, and Social Problem-Solving Deficits among Adolescent Self-Injurers.
TL;DR: Adolescent self-injurers showed higher physiological reactivity during a distressing task, a poorer ability to tolerate this distress, and deficits in several social problem-solving abilities, highlighting the importance of attending to increased arousal, distress tolerance, and problem-Solving skills in the assessment and treatment of NSSI.
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More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.
Elissa S. Epel,Alexandra D. Crosswell,Stefanie E. Mayer,Aric A. Prather,George M. Slavich,Eli Puterman,Wendy Berry Mendes +6 more
TL;DR: An integrative working model is articulated, highlighting how stressor exposures across the life course influence habitual responding and stress reactivity, and how health behaviors interact with stress, and a Stress Typology articulating timescales for stress measurement is offered.
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Cell Aging in Relation to Stress Arousal and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
Elissa S. Epel,Jue Lin,Frank H. Wilhelm,Owen M. Wolkowitz,Richard M. Cawthon,Nancy E. Adler,Christyn L. Dolbier,Wendy Berry Mendes,Elizabeth H. Blackburn +8 more
TL;DR: Low leukocyte telomerase constitutes an early marker of CVD risk, possibly preceding shortened telomeres, that results in part from chronic stress arousal, and may implicate telomersase as a novel and important mediator of the effects of psychological stress on physical health and disease.