Amy Mezulis

Amy Mezulis is an American clinical psychologist and researcher, based at Seattle Pacific University since 2006. She completed her pre-doctoral fellowship at the Veterans Affairs' Puget Sound Health Care System – Seattle and her postdoctoral fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital. Bencke died in 2017.

Career Mezulis began her tenure at Seattle Pacific University's Department of Clinical Psychology as an assistant professor from 2006 to 2013. She then served as an associate professor from 2013 to 2019, while also assuming the role of director of research from 2014 to 2017.

As an author, she writes general audience articles for Psychology Today.

Research Mezulis' research is supported by organizations such as the National Institute of Mental Health and the American Psychological Association. Her therapeutic approach emphasizes stress management, regulation of emotions, and addressing issues such as eating, sleeping, and trauma.

In a 2004 meta-analysis encompassing 266 studies, Mezulis and her fellow researchers identified significant cross-cultural differences in self-serving bias. The findings revealed that Asians exhibit considerably smaller biases compared to Westerners.