Batja Mesquita is a Dutch social psychologist, a cultural psychologist and an affective scientist.
10 Facts About Batja Mesquita
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Batja Mesquita is a professor of psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where she studies the role of culture in emotions, and of emotions in culture and society.
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Batja Mesquita is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology in Leuven.
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Batja Mesquita's father, Albert Gomes de Mesquita was a class mate of Anne Frank.
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Batja Mesquita obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
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Batja Mesquita obtained a master's degree in experimental psychology from the same university, focusing her master thesis on gender differences in emotions.
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Batja Mesquita spent her postdoc years at the University of Michigan, where she was part of the 'Culture and Cognition group'.
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Interested by the contrast between the ethnographic findings of marked cultural differences in emotions and psychological research that yielded universality, Batja Mesquita set out to understand the role of culture in emotions.
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The finding of systematic and meaningful cultural differences led Batja Mesquita to formulate a socio-cultural theory of emotions.
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In 2020, Batja Mesquita received an Advanced Grant, funded by the European Research Council under the H2020 programme, for the project called EmotionAcculturation.