Batja Gomes de Mesquita | |
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| Born | 1960 Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam, University of Michigan |
| Known for | Theory of socio-cultural construction of emotions |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | social psychology, cultural psychology, affective sciences |
| Thesis | (Ph.D. 1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nico H. Frijda |
| Website | https://ppw.kuleuven.be/cscp/batjamesquita |
Batja Mesquita is a Dutch social psychologist, a cultural psychologist and an affective scientist. She 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. She is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology in Leuven.[1]