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Batja Mesquita

Batja Mesquita

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Psychology

D-Index
46
Citations
18222
World Ranking
6283
National Ranking
83

Overview

Batja Mesquita is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research primarily focuses on social psychology, with significant work in subfields such as social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, and clinical psychology.

Their work addresses main topics including cultural differences and values, attachment and relationship dynamics, social and intergroup psychology, emotions and moral behavior, language, discourse and communication strategies, international student and expatriate challenges, and racial and ethnic identity research.

Frequent publication venues for Mesquita's research include:

  • Emotion
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
  • Cognition & Emotion

Mesquita has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, among whom are:

  • Michael Boiger
  • Yukiko Uchida
  • Anna Schouten
  • Katie Hoemann
  • Alexander Kirchner-Häusler

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mesquita include:

  • Cultural Differences in Emotion Suppression in Belgian and Japanese Couples: A Social Functional Model (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • My emotions belong here and there: extending the phenomenon of emotional acculturation to heritage culture fit (2020, Cognition & Emotion)
  • Different bumps in the road: The emotional dynamics of couple disagreements in Belgium and Japan (2020, Emotion)
  • What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza (2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • Relatively Happy: The Role of the Positive-to-Negative Affect Ratio in Japanese and Belgian Couples (2021, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology)

In addition to journal articles, Mesquita has published books, including one titled Against Happiness released in 2023 by Columbia University Press.

Best Publications

  • The Experience of Emotion

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Batja Mesquita;Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

  • Cultural variations in emotions: A review.

    Batja Mesquita;Nico H. Frijda

  • The social roles and functions of emotions

    Nico H. Frijda;Batja Mesquita

  • Cultural affordances and emotional experience: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions in Japan and the United States.

    Shinobu Kitayama;Batja Mesquita;Mayumi Karasawa

  • Context in Emotion Perception

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Batja Mesquita;Maria Gendron

  • Beyond the emotional event: Six studies on the social sharing of emotion

    Bernard Rimé;Batja Mesquita;Pierre Philippot;Stefano Boca

  • Placing the face in context: cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion.

    Takahiko Masuda;Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Batja Mesquita;Janxin Leu

  • Emotions in collectivist and individualist contexts.

    Batja Mesquita

  • Sentimental Stereotypes: Emotional Expectations for High-and Low-Status Group Members:

    Larissa Z. Tiedens;Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Batja Mesquita

  • Long-lasting Cognitive and Social Consequences of Emotion: Social Sharing and Rumination

    Bernard Rimé;Pierre Philippot;Stefano Boca;Batja Mesquita

  • The construction of emotion in interactions, relationships, and cultures

    Michael Boiger;Batja Mesquita

  • Cultural differences in emotions: a context for interpreting emotional experiences

    Batja Mesquita;R. Walker

  • The duration of affective phenomena or emotions, sentiments and passions

    N.H. Frijda;Batja Mesquita;J Sonnemans;S Van Goozen

  • Culture and emotion.

    Batja Mesquita;Nico H. Frijda;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Is Perceived Emotional Support Beneficial? Well-Being and Health in Independent and Interdependent Cultures

    Yukiko Uchida;Shinobu Kitayama;Batja Mesquita;Jose Alberto S. Reyes

  • The cultural regulation of emotions

    Batja Mesquita;Jozefien De Leersnyder;Dustin Albert

  • Different emotional lives

    Batja Mesquita;Mayumi Karasawa

  • Where Do My Emotions Belong? A Study of Immigrants’ Emotional Acculturation

    Jozefien De Leersnyder;Batja Mesquita;Heejung S. Kim

  • The cultural psychology of emotion.

    Batja Mesquita;Janxin Leu

  • Emotions in Context: A Sociodynamic Model of Emotions

    Batja Mesquita;Michael Boiger

  • Emotions as dynamic cultural phenomena

    Batja Mesquita

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Phalet
Karen Phalet KU Leuven
Bernard Rimé
Bernard Rimé Université Catholique de Louvain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Nico H. Frijda
Nico H. Frijda University of Amsterdam
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michelle Yik
Michelle Yik Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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