Batja Mesquita

How Culture Shapes the Stories We Tell About Our Emotions - by Katie Hoemann & Batja Mesquita - Behavioral Scientist The Hadza don’t talk about emotion the way psychologists were used to. To capture human emotion in all its richness, we have to broaden where and how we study it.

In this weekend’s read from the archive, @katiehoemann.bsky.social and @batjamesquita.bsky.social reveal how limited our study of emotion has been—and where we could look to correct that.

DAY 17 introducing members of the 2025-26 CASBS class

@batjamesquita.bsky.social is a two-timer. We mean that in a nice way 😏

Batja wrote a terrific book, "Between Us," while at CASBS in 2016-17. She's back to write a new book on emotional literacy ✍️

More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/batja-mesquita

Happy that we will host the IACCP 2026 conference in Leuven, Belgium

This is the culmination of years of reading, thinking, and talking with @batjamesquita.bsky.social, Dirk Geeraerts, Lyle Ungar, Yeasle Lee, Èvelyne Dussault, and Simon Devylder. I’m so proud of the roadmap we’ve created, and excited to see where it takes us (all).

In our perspective in Communications Psychology, we use findings from psychology and linguistics to show how accessing attention, construal, and appraisal through language can open new vistas for the science of emotion.

The construction of emotional meaning in language Communications Psychology - Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language may capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are put in focus within a given situation,...

How can language be used to study, in detail and high dimension, the processes by which people understand and experience their emotions? We have some proposals: rdcu.be/eu6ZR

Amerikaanse ambassade stuurt vragenlijst naar Vlaamse universiteiten over diversiteitsbeleid | VRT NWS: nieuws De Amerikaanse ambassade heeft een vragenlijst gestuurd naar bepaalde Vlaamse universiteiten over hun diversiteitsbeleid. Dat heeft Vlaams minister van Onderwijs Zuhal Demir (N-VA) bevestigd in de com...

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For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

I really liked your analysis in the NYT @adam grant

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So happy to spend 2025-26 at CASBS, and honored to be spending it in such great company!

Rescheduled to tomorrow, Thursday April 3, at 17:00. For the livestream, please see below.

Prof. @batjamesquita.bsky.social will give an inaugural lecture on how cultures create emotions at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Livestream: buff.ly/3gfdBDv (MS Teams).

Looking forward to it!

YouTube video by The Smart Cookies Podcast In the West, SHAME is the worst emotion you can feel. In East Asia, they have a different idea...

In the West, SHAME is regarded as one of the darkest emotions there is. In East Asia however, shame is perceived as an extremely positive emotion...

Famed psychologist @batjamesquita.bsky.social explains the difference 👇🏻

youtu.be/-WkaDhNlTxU

#mentalhealth #psychology #podcast

In the West, the idea of LOVE almost always signifies a Disney-like romantic ideal. In other cultures not so much...

Famous social psychologist @batjamesquita.bsky.social breaks down the fascinating differences 💔👇🏻

youtu.be/1qmodHYpCFQ

#relationships #relationshipadvice #love #podcast

Here's a question - when we come from different CULTURES, do we feel the SAME emotions?

Famous psychologist and author, prof. @batjamesquita.bsky.social breaks it down 💜🎙️👇🏻

YT:
youtu.be/a7St79Kf_tM

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/4G70...

Apple:
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#psychology

YouTube video by Dr Rangan Chatterjee Why The Human Condition Makes You Feel LOST & UNHAPPY In Life (How To Fix It) | Batja Mesquita

Great interview with renown social psychologist, affective scientist, and pioneer of cultural psychology @batjamesquita.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHaN... How Cultures Create #Emotions

BETWEEN US: HOW CULTURES CREATE EMOTIONS – a review by Jem Golden I came to Batja Mesquita’s remarkable, warmly humane and easily accessible book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - my favourite non-fiction book of 2024 (together with Super-Infinite: The Tran...

Great review of my book by Jem Golden. www.linkedin.com/pulse/betwee...

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@batjamesquita.bsky.social Rings true: "initial support for the role of morality in obsessive-compulsive disorder (#OCD)(contamination & doubts). [Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students] journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“Self-concept and emotions: What has culture got to do with it?”

Our PI, Prof. @batjamesquita.bsky.social‬ and Prof. Shinobu Kitayama gave a joint talk for the University Foundation Brussels, sharing their expertise on how culture shapes the self and emotions.

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