Project REACH

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.

Curious to see what she discovered? Check it out here:
https://buff.ly/3Z7rJ6z

Proven for the first time: Majority members can acculturate their emotions towards the emotion norms of a minority culture too. This shows that emotional acculturation is a two-way process.

Open acces: https://buff.ly/3U4b9AQ

Given our focus on sensitive topics and vulnerable groups, we're committed to preventing data misuse. By identifying key areas prone to misinterpretation, we aim to ensure accurate understanding of our research findings. To learn more about our approach, see:

https://buff.ly/3xJf9PK

New study! For immigrant-origin adolescents, having more majority friends positively relates to emotional fit with majority culture without negatively affecting the fit to their minority culture. This is important for belonging and well-being.

https://buff.ly/443IlNB

Given our focus on sensitive topics and vulnerable groups, we're committed to preventing data misuse. By identifying key areas prone to misinterpretation, we aim to ensure accurate understanding of our research findings. To learn more about our approach, see:

https://buff.ly/3xJf9PK

"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.

https://buff.ly/49ljmXc

In a recently published article in Behavioral Scientist, Katie Hoemann and Professor Batja Mesquita show that members of a hunter-gatherer community, known as the Hadza, describe their experiences of emotion differently from what is common in the West. Curious about alternative ways of telling stories about your emotions?

Visit REACH at: https://buff.ly/491JwOt

Professor Mesquita is featured in the audio guide for the art exhibition Turning Heads, National Gallery of Ireland, offering a social-psychological perspective on facial expressions and emotions, such as for the painting Laughing Boy by Frans Hals. What do you perceive in this expression?

For more details, visit REACH at https://buff.ly/3v50qOa

We are excited to announce that the paperback edition of "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" is now available! This edition brings the book's insights on the interplay between culture and emotions to an even wider audience.

https://buff.ly/3v0OMUC

For the “Night of the Fury”, professor Mesquita is set to open the evening with a lecture on anger. She will explore the essence of anger, its origins, how it is expressed, and whether anger has cultural dimensions.

Scheduled for March 9, 2024. For more information, visit Reach at https://buff.ly/48GNcoq.

REACH seeks to contribute to our understanding of how emotions are constructed through relational engagements, and how they facilitate social coordination and cohesion.