2026 & IN PROGRESS |

Mende-Siedlecki, P. & Havlicek, L. (under review). The Delaware behavior database: A set of social behaviors and corresponding norming data. PREPRINT

Harris, K., Luttrell, A., Mende-Siedlecki, P. & Hackel, L. M. (revision requested). Reward learning positively biases widespread impressions and social choice. PREPRINT

Wylie, J., Gantman, A., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Singer, H., Young, L., & Bloom, P. (under review). People think women are morally superior to men. PREPRINT

2025 |

Hagiwara, N., Rivet, E., Eiler, B., Edwards, C., Jones, S.C.T., Grover, A., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2025). Racial disparities in pain care: A comprehensive integration of patient- and provider-level mechanisms with dyadic communication processes using a mixed-methods research design. BMJ Open, 15(3), e090365. PDF

Luo, J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., & Hackel, L. M. (2025). Rewards bias self-evaluations of ability. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 143. LINK

Kissi, A., Van Ryckeghem, D., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Hirsh, A., Van Alboom, I., Debeer, D., & Vervoort, T. (2025). Racialized bias in pediatric pain: the role of observers' attentional processing and estimations of children’s pain. PeerJ, 13, e19969. LINK

Kumar, J.*, Atkinson, D.*, Chima, A., McLaughlin, L., Ortiz, C., Parikh, R., Allen, J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Mitchell., M., & Chidambaran, V. (2025). Mixed-methods study for an empathic understanding of acute pain experience in pediatric non-Hispanic White and Black cohorts. The Journal of Pain, 35, 105502. LINK

Hagiwara, N., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2025). How can psychologists walk the walk to promote racial justice? Situating racial justice intervention research within the translational research framework. Journal of Social Issues, 81(3), e70019. PDF

Rothman, A., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Hagiwara, N. (2025). Racial justice intervention research: reflections, challenges, and the road ahead. Journal of Social Issues, 81(4), e70043. LINK

2024 |

Huang, Y., Miller, T., Awad, C., Reyes, P. G. M., Tuerxuntuoheti, A., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2024). Target weight and gender moderate anti-Black bias in pain perception. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 28(5), 428-440. LINK

Haas, S. M., Mullin, J. D., Williams, A., Reynolds, A., Tuerxuntuoheti, A., Reyes, P. G. M., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2024). Racial bias in pediatric pain perception. The Journal of Pain, 25(9), 104583. LINK

Lin, J., Drain, A., Goharzad, A., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2024). What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), e12901. LINK

Hackel, L. M., Kalkstein, D., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2024). Simplifying social learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(5), 428-440. PDF

2023 |

Hackel, L. M., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2023). Two modes of social impressions and their effects on choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3002–3020. PDF

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Rivet, E. B., Grover, A. C., & Hagiwara, N. (2023). Making Meaningful Impacts: Centering breakdowns in dyadic communication processes in racial disparities in surgical pain care. Annals of Surgery, 276(6), 646–648. PDF

2022 |

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Goharzad, A., Tuerxuntuoheti, A., Reyes, P. G. M., Lin, J., & Drain, A. (2022). Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101. PDF

Kissi, A., Van Ryckeghem, D. M. L., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Hirsh, A., & Vervoort, T. (2022). Racial disparities in observers' attention to and estimations of others' pain. Pain, 163(4), 745–752. PDF

Hackel, L. M., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Loken, S., & Amodio, D. M. (2022). Context-dependent learning in social interaction: Trait impressions support flexible social choices. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(4), 655–675. PDF

2021 |

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Lin, J., Ferron, S., Gibbons, C., Drain, A., & Goharzad, A. (2021). Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception. Emotion, 21(5), 932–950. PDF

Ray J. L., Mende-Siedlecki P., Gantman A., Van Bavel J. J. (2021). The role of morality in social cognition. In K. Ochsner & M. Gilead. (Eds.) The Neural Bases of Mentalizing, Springer Press. PDF

Kim, M. J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Anzellotti, S., & Young, L. (2021). Theory of mind following the violation of strong and weak prior beliefs. Cerebral Cortex, 31(2), 884–898. PDF

2020 |

Hackel, L.M., Mende-Siedlecki, P., & Amodio, D.M. (2020). Reinforcement learning in social interaction: The distinguishing role of trait inference. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88, 103948. PDF | Data and materials

Gantman, A., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Devraj-Kizuk, S., Van Bavel, J.J., & Mathewson, K.E. (2020) The time-course of moral perception: An ERP investigation of the moral pop-out effect. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. PDF

Reinero, D. A., Wills, J. A., Brady, W. J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Crawford, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2020). Is the political slant of psychology research related to scientific replicability? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(6), 1310–1328. LINK

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Qu-Lee, J., Lin, J., Drain, A., & Goharzad, A. (2020). The Delaware Pain Database: a set of painful expressions and corresponding norming data. Pain Reports, 5(6). PDF | Data and materials

2019 |

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Qu-Lee, J. Backer, R., Van Bavel, J.J. (2019). Perceptual contributions to racial biases in pain recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(5), 863-889. PDF | Data and materials

2018 |

2016 |

Van Bavel, J.J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Brady, W.J., & Reinero, D.A. (2016). Rely to Inbar: Contextual sensitivity helps explain the reproducibility gap between social and cognitive psychology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(34), E4935-E4936. PDF

Mende-Siedlecki, P. & Todorov, A. (2016). Neural dissociations between meaningful and mere inconsistency in impression updating. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(9), 1489-1500. PDF

Van Bavel, J.J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Brady, W.J., & Reinero, D.A. (2016). Contextual sensitivity in scientific reproducibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(23), 6454-6459. PDF

Ferrari, C., Lega, C., Vernice, M., Tamietto, M., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Vecchi, T., Todorov, A., & Cattaneo, Z. (2016). The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex plays a causal role in integrating social impressions from faces and verbal descriptions. Cerebral Cortex, 1, 156-165. PDF

2015 |

Van Bavel, J.J., FeldmanHall, O., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2015). The neural dynamics of moral cognition. Current Opinions in Psychology. 6, 167–172. PDF

Todorov, A., Olivola, C.Y., Dotsch, R., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2015). Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 519-545. PDF

2013 |

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Baron, S., & Todorov, A. (2013). Diagnostic value underlies asymmetric updating of impressions in the morality and ability domains. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(50), 19406-19415. PDF

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Verosky, S., Turk-Browne, N.T., & Todorov, A. (2013). Robust selectivity for faces in the human amygdala in the absence of expressions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(12), 2086-2106. PDF

Todorov, A., Mende-Siedlecki, P., & Dotsch, R. (2013). Social judgments from faces. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 23(3), 373-380. PDF

Buhle, J., Kober, H., Ochsner, K., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Weber, J., Hughes, B., Kross, E., Atlas, L., McRae, K., & Wager, T. (2013). Common representation of pain and negative emotion in the midbrain periaqueductal gray. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 609-616. PDF

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Said, C., & Todorov, A. (2013). The social evaluation of faces: a meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 285-299. PDF

Mende-Siedlecki, P., Cai, Y., & Todorov, A. (2013) The neural dynamics of updating impressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 623-631. PDF
 

2012 & earlier |

UNDERGRADUATE Posters

Ogundere, I., Piotroski, M., Sieglen, S., Huang, Y., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2025). Gendered perceptions of East and South Asians: a stereotype content analysis. Poster presented at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day.

Logozio, J., Cohen, E., Cruz-Mendoza, J., Hayslip, T., Mullin, G.J.D., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2025). Perceived similarity guides spontaneous trait generalization. Poster presented at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day.

Haas, S. & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2024). Target gender appearance, gender identity, and race influence emotion perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March 2024, Philadelphia, PA.

Medico, N., Hughes, B., & Mende-Siedlecki P. (2024). Linking racial bias in pain perception to the out-group homogeneity effect. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February 2024, San Diego, CA.

Haas, S. & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2023). Gender and Race as Moderators of Sadness and Pain Perception. Poster presented at UD Summer Scholars Symposium.

Williams, A., Storz, A., Bockrath, C., Drain, A., Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2023). Do differences in attention support racial bias in pain perception? Poster presented at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day.

Medico, N., Hughes, B., Mende-Siedlecki P. (2023). Linking racial bias in pain perception to the out-group homogeneity effect. Poster presented at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day.

Turner, B., Goharzad, A., Lin, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2020). Self-Report as a Moderator of Racial Bias in Pain Perception. Poster presented virtually at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day.

Okorie, O., Drain, A., Lin, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2020). Do adaptation aftereffects associated with painful expressions differ as a function of race? Poster presented virtually at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day.

Juliano, A., Kays, K., Mariani, K., Frezza, E., Qu-Lee, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2017). Building a face database to study racial bias in pain perception. Poster presented at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day. PDF

Martin, C., Halkowski, M., Davis, L., Qu-Lee, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2017). Status as a moderator of racial bias in pain perception. Poster presented at the University of Delaware Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Day. PDF

Klysa, A., Qu-Lee, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2017). Racial bias in pain recognition: A perceptual pathway to bias in pain care. Poster presented at University of Delaware Summer Scholars Poster Symposium. PDF

Williams, T., Qu-Lee, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. (2017). Building a face database to study racial bias in pain perception. Poster presented at University of Delaware Summer Workshop in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. PDF