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    Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
    Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
    Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
    Audiobook8 hours

    Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

    Written by Batja Mesquita

    Narrated by Mikhaila Aaseng

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    About this audiobook

    A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together.

    “How are you feeling today?” We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside. Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective, readers will understand why pride in a Dutch context does not translate well to North Carolina, or why one’s anger at a boss does not mean the same as your anger to a partner in a close relationship. By looking outward at relationships at work, school, and home, we can better judge how our emotions will be understood, how they might change a situation, and how they change us.

    Brilliantly synthesizing original psychological studies and stories from peoples across time and geography, Between Us skillfully argues that acknowledging differences in emotions allows us to find common ground, humanizing and humbling us all for the better.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 19, 2022
    ISBN9781978643116
    Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
    Author

    Batja Mesquita

    Batja Mesquita, PhD, is Professor of the Psychology of Emotion and Motivation at the Center for Cultural and Social Psychology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Most of her research focuses on the constitutional role of cultural contexts in emotion. Dr. Mesquita has published widely on topics related to cultural differences in emotions and on acculturation and emotion. She has served as Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion and Emotion Review and is currently on the editorial boards of Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Dr. Mesquita is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

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      Great and informative and clearly articulated,I enjoyed it so much

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