Dr. Marilyn Mendolia
Associate Professor of Psychology
Phone: (662) 915-7254
Fax: (662) 915-5398
pymm@olemiss.edu
Room 302A Peabody Building
University, MS 38677

Research Areas:

• Verbal and facial expression of emotion
• Self-regulation of emotion

Selected Publications:

• Mendolia, M., & Baker, G. A. (2008). Attentional mechanisms associated with repressive distancing. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 546-563.
• Mendolia, M. (2007). Explicit use of categorical and dimensional strategies to decode facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 31, 57-75.
• Mendolia, M. (2002). An index of self-regulation of emotion and the study of repression in social contexts that threaten and do not threaten self-concept. Emotion, 2, 215-232.
• Mendolia, M., (1999). Agreement between two methods for identifying dispositional repressors: A comment on Egloff and Hock (1997). Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 1015-1020.
• Mendolia, M., (1999). Repressors' appraisals of emotional stimuli in threatening and nonthreatening positive emotional contexts. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 1-26.
• Mendolia, M., Moore, J., & Tesser, A. (1996). Dispositional and situational determinants of repression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 856-867.
• Mendolia, M., Beach, S. R. H., & Tesser, A. (1996). Affective reactions to one's own and to one's partner's self-evaluation needs: Implications for marital interactions. Personal Relations,3, 279-292.

Grants and Contracts:

• First Independent Research Support and Transition Award (R29) Personality and social context in repression of emotion. Project dates: 9/30/98-5/31/03. The National Institute of Mental Health.