Research Seminar
Changing places: Concordant and discordant cultural contexts of emotionBatja MesquitaWake Forest University/ KU Leuven | |
| Abstract: | People’s emotional lives differ substantially across cultures. In each culture, emotional experiences and responses tend to be coordinated with the prevalent cultural models of relationships. Therefore, under normal circumstances emotions are functional to the relationships which they occur. I will provide several examples from our ongoing research that illustrate the concordance of emotions with their original socio-cultural contexts. But what happens when people change places? What happens when the culture for which emotions are socialized and the culture in which they are play out are discordant? This is the topic of new research and theorizing. Discordance of one’s emotions with one’s current socio-cultural context is expected to have detrimental effects on the quality of one’s relationships and one’s social interactions and, indirectly, also on health outcomes. The outlines of a theory on emotional acculturation will be presented together with the first evidence in support of it. |
| Date: | Tue Mar 13, 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm |
| Place: | room 00.60 (Department of Psychology, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven) |