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Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Education, Social Psychology, Safety Research, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work encompasses several main topics, such as:

  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Disability Education and Employment
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton has authored multiple research papers, including:

  • "A multilevel model of job inclusion of employees with disabilities: The role of organizational socialization tactics, coworkers social support, and an inclusive team context" (2022), published in Applied Psychology
  • "Critical Faculty and Peer Instructor Development: Core Components for Building Inclusive STEM Programs in Higher Education" (2022), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Incorporating a Race Salience Subscale Into the Cross Racial Identity Scale (CRIS)" (2020), published in Journal of Black Psychology
  • "Interracial contact at work: Does workplace diversity reduce bias?" (2020), published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • "The dynamics of coping, positive emotions, and well-being: Evidence from Latin American immigrant farmworkers and college students during a time of political strife." (2021), published in Emotion

Their research articles have appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Applied Psychology, Journal of Black Psychology, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, and Emotion.

Frequent collaborators include Colette Patt, Randy T. Lee, Yuichi Shoda, Özlem Ayduk, and Walter Mischel.

In addition to journal articles, Mendoza-Denton has contributed to book publications. One such work is "Diversifying the STEM Fields: From Individual to Structural Approaches," published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: how the rich are different from the poor.

    Michael W. Kraus;Paul K. Piff;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Michelle L. Rheinschmidt

  • Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

    Paul K. Piff;Daniel M. Stancato;Stéphane Côté;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • Sensitivity to Status-Based Rejection: Implications for African American Students' College Experience

    Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Geraldine Downey;Valerie J. Purdie;Angelina Davis

  • Regulating the Interpersonal Self: Strategic Self-Regulation for Coping With Rejection Sensitivity

    Ozlem Ayduk;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Walter Mischel;Geraldine Downey

  • Sensitivity to status-based rejection: implications for African American students' college experience.

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  • With a little help from my cross-group friend: reducing anxiety in intergroup contexts through cross-group friendship.

    Elizabeth Page-Gould;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Linda R. Tropp

  • Situation-Behavior Profiles as a Locus of Consistency in Personality:

    Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • On the prevalence of racial discrimination in the United States.

    Randy T. Lee;Amanda Danielle Perez;Malik Boykin;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • Why Egalitarianism Might Be Good for Your Health: Physiological Thriving During Stressful Intergroup Encounters

    Wendy Berry Mendes;Heather M. Gray;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Brenda Major

  • The Power of a LabeL: MenTaL ILLness DIagnoses, ascrIbeD huManITy, anD socIaL rejecTIon

    Andres G. Martinez;Paul K. Piff;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Stephen P. Hinshaw

  • Can Cross-Group Friendships Influence Minority Students' Well-Being at Historically White Universities?

    Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Elizabeth Page-Gould

  • Incorporating If ... Then . . . Personality Signatures in Person Perception: Beyond the Person-Situation Dichotomy

    Lara K. Kammrath;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Walter Mischel

  • Blacks’ Death Rate Due to Circulatory Diseases Is Positively Related to Whites’ Explicit Racial Bias: A Nationwide Investigation Using Project Implicit

    Jordan B. Leitner;Eric Hehman;Ozlem Ayduk;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • Person X situation interactionism in self-encoding (I am...when...): implications for affect regulation and social information processing.

    Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Ozlem Ayduk;Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda

  • Structure and belonging: Pathways to success for underrepresented minority and women PhD students in STEM fields.

    Aaron J. Fisher;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Colette Patt;Ira Young

  • Understanding the impact of cross-group friendship on interactions with novel outgroup members.

    Elizabeth Page-Gould;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Jan Marie Alegre;John Oliver Siy

  • 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.

    Albert Bennett;Beatrice L. Bridglall;Ana Mari Cauce;Howard T. Everson

  • Status-based rejection sensitivity among asian americans: implications for psychological distress.

    Wayne Chan;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • Seek Help from Teachers or Fight Back? Student Perceptions of Teachers’ Actions during Conflicts and Responses to Peer Victimization

    Mario J. Aceves;Stephen P. Hinshaw;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Elizabeth Page-Gould

  • When dispositional and role power fit: implications for self-expression and self-other congruence.

    Serena Chen;Carrie A. Langner;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • Social class and academic achievement in college: The interplay of rejection sensitivity and entity beliefs.

    Michelle L. Rheinschmidt;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ozlem Ayduk
Ozlem Ayduk University of California, Berkeley
Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel Columbia University
Geraldine Downey
Geraldine Downey Columbia University
Yuichi Shoda
Yuichi Shoda University of Washington
Paul K. Piff
Paul K. Piff University of California, Irvine
Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto
Stephen P. Hinshaw
Stephen P. Hinshaw University of California, Berkeley
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Frank C. Worrell
Frank C. Worrell University of California, Berkeley
Stéphane Côté
Stéphane Côté University of Toronto

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