Wendy Berry Mendes\, University of California Sa n Francisco
Affect contagion: How stress and emotions a re caught by strangers and close others
Wendy Berry Mendes is the Sarlo/Ekman A ssociate Professor of Emotion at UC San Francisco. She obtained a Ph.D. in social psychology from UC Santa Barbara in 2003 and then completed a post-d octoral training program in psychology and medicine at UCSF. In 2004\, she became an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University and was p romoted to associate professor in 2008. She accepted her current position a t UCSF in 2010. Her research questions sit at the intersection of social\, personality and biological psychology\, and primarily concern questions reg arding embodiment - how emotions\, thoughts\, and intentions are experience d in the body and how bodily responses shape and influence thoughts\, behav ior and emotions.
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