Batja Mesquita, PhD, is Professor of the Psychology of Emotion and Motivation at the Center for Cultural and Social Psychology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Most of her research focuses on the constitutional role of cultural contexts in emotion. Dr. Mesquita has published widely on topics related to cultural differences in emotions and on acculturation and emotion. She has served as Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion and Emotion Review and is currently on the editorial boards of Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Dr. Mesquita is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

L.F. Barrett, B. Mesquita, E.R. Smith, The Context Principle. Part 1. Genes and the Brain. L.V. Harper, Epigenetic Inheritance. O. Sporns, Brain Networks and Embodiment. S.M. van Anders, Social Modulation of Hormones. Part 2. Cognition and Affect. B. Mesquita, Emoting: A Contextualized Process. N. Schwarz, Meaning in Context: Meta-Cognitive Experiences. E.R. Smith, E.C. Collins, Situated Cognition. Part 3. The Person. W. Mischel, Y. Shoda, The Situated Person. S. Kitayama, T. Imada, Implicit Independence and Interdependence: A Cultural Task Analysis. Y. Dunham, M. Banaji, Platonic Blindness and the Challenge of Understanding Context. S. Sinclair, J. Lun, Social Tuning of Ethnic Attitudes. Part 4. Behavior. M.E. Bouton, The Multiple Forms of "Context" in Associative Learning Theory. D.A. Prentice, T.E. Trail, Threat, Marginality, and Reactions to Norm Violations. G. Adams, P.S. Salter, K.M. Pickett, T. Kurtis, N.L. Phillips, Behavior as Mind in Context: A Cultural Psychology Analysis of "Paranoid" Suspicion in West African Worlds. M.J. Richardson, K.L. Marsh, R.C. Schmidt, Challenging the Egocentric View of Coordinated Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing. L.W. Barsalou, C.D. Wilson, W. Hasenkamp, Conclusion: On the Vices of Nominalization and the Virtues of Contexting.

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