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Previously live-streamed on July 28, 2022: Boswell Books and Porchlight Book Company present an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions.
ABOUT THE BOOK
We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, but in BETWEEN US, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider them through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. 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.
Brilliantly synthesizing original psychological studies and stories from peoples across time and geography, BETWEEN US skillfully argues that acknowledging differences in emotions allows us to find common ground, humanizing and humbling us all for the better.
BATJA MESQUITA is a social psychologist, an affective scientist, and a pioneer of cultural psychology. She is a Distinguished 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. Mesquita spent her postdoctoral years at the University of Michigan, where she was part of the "culture and cognition group" that played a key role in the start of cultural psychology. She is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology in Leuven.
Batja was in conversation with Porchlight Managing Director Sally Haldorson.
SALLY HALDORSON's mission as Porchlight’s Managing Director is to make Porchlight a great place to work for employees, and a consistently high-performing service organization for everyone in or orbiting the publishing industry. After 25 years working in book retail, she has developed a penchant for business strategy, both as a socio-economic force and a literary genre. Happy to put her English and Creative Writing degrees to work, she helped craft three editions of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, and she reads, writes, and reviews for the company’s marketing team.