Emotion and Culture with Batja Mesquita (BS 199)

Batja Mesquita (click to play interview, Right click to download mp3)

This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. This is an important book because it describes the evidence that Emotions are not just something people experience "from the inside out," but they also occur between people, which means that culture plays a critical role. We also explore why it is important to appreciate why people from from different cultures may experience emotions in surprisingly different ways.

Links and References:

• Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions by Batja Mesquita

• Follow her on Twitter: @batjamesquita

• Learn More about Emotion:

  • BS 135 with Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made: The New Science of the Mind and Brain

  • BS 134 with Jaak Panksepp, pioneer of Affective Neuroscience

  • BS 151 discussion of discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis, by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson

  • BS 195 with David J Anderson author of The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us

• See episode transcript for additional links and references

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