BETWEEN US : HOW CULTURES CREATE EMOTIONS /
Batja Mesquita.
- xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"How are you feeling today?" We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside. Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective, readers will understand why pride in a Dutch context does not translate well to North Carolina, or why one's anger at a boss does not mean the same as your anger to a partner in a close relationship. By looking outward at relationships at work, school, and home, we can better judge how our emotions will be understood, how they might change a situation, and how they change us.