NEWS & EVENTS

Verlegenheid heeft in onze cultuur vaak een negatieve bijklank. Het is iets dat we moeten overwinnen. Maar dit is lang niet in alle culturen zo. Kijk bijvoorbeeld naar Oost-Azië of naar veel mediterrane culturen in Noord-Afrika, waar verlegenheid juist geapprecieerd wordt. Daar heeft verlegenheid de contonatie van ‘je plaats kennen’ of ‘fatsoenlijk zijn’. Het is...

After almost five incredible years working together, we’re saying goodbye to our fantastic project manager, Tom. Thank you for this very pleasant collaboration. Wishing you all the best.

One of our researchers, Yeasle Lee, just successfully defended her PhD on bicultural emotional fit. Congratulations, Dr. Lee. We are beyond proud of you. Yeasle investigated emotional acculturation as a bidimensional and situated process, and explored its implications for well-being among immigrant-origin minority adolescents in Belgium. You can read her full dissertation here.

“Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions” is reaching a broader audience with its recent translations into Dutch, Polish, and Chinese! This marks a significant step in making the book’s insights accessible to readers across the globe.  The Dutch translation is now available for pre-order as “De emoties tussen ons”, with its release scheduled for May 22, 2024....

Culture influences the stories we tell ourselves about our emotions. Members of a community of hunter-gatherers, known as the Hadza, describe their experiences of emotion in a different manner than what is common in the West. For instance, when talking about emotions, Americans typically emphasize the mental experience, such as feeling anger or joy, whereas Hadza...

Professor Mesquita is featured in the audio guide for the art exhibition Turning Heads, an exhibition exploring the human face, currently at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. In the audio guide, Mesquita offers a social-psychological perspective on several works, examining facial expressions and emotions, such as for the painting Laughing Boy by Frans Hals (depicted...