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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

Batja Mesquita

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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

Batja Mesquita

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A staple experience at IFSEL is check-in and naming emotions. This book offers interesting insights to this common SEL experience. While we may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, 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. “Between Us offers an “outside-in” perspective to emotions in different cultures. Mesquita explains why various emotions mean different things in different places; pride in North Carolina is not the same thing as it is in Amsterdam. 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. “Understanding people across cultural and racial divides requires immersing yourself in their diverse emotional realities. The book is a must-read for everyone working towards justice and inclusion -- from law enforcement to schools to the workplace." ― Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University

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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

Batja Mesquita

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Preschool

K-3

3 - 6

Middle School

High School

Adult

A staple experience at IFSEL is check-in and naming emotions. This book offers interesting insights to this common SEL experience. While we may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, 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. “Between Us offers an “outside-in” perspective to emotions in different cultures. Mesquita explains why various emotions mean different things in different places; pride in North Carolina is not the same thing as it is in Amsterdam. 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. “Understanding people across cultural and racial divides requires immersing yourself in their diverse emotional realities. The book is a must-read for everyone working towards justice and inclusion -- from law enforcement to schools to the workplace." ― Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University

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