Wendy Berry Mendes is the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
At Yale she is the founder and director of the Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab in the Department of Psychology.
Mendes received her bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University, Long Beach.
At UCSF she was the Director of the Health Psychology Program and Deputy Vice Chair of Psychiatry.
Her research questions sit at the intersection of social, personality, and biological psychology and primarily concern embodiment - how emotions, thoughts, and intentions are experienced in the body and how bodily responses shape and influence thoughts, behavior and emotions (see Blascovich & Mendes, 2010).