BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This month's episode 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
- How Emotions Are Made: The New Science of the Mind and Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett (BS 135)
- Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for additional references and episode transcripts.
- TextExpander at textexpander.com/podcast
- BetterHelp at betterhelp.com/ginger
Announcements:
Please take a few minutes to complete this audience survey.
- Contact Dr. Campbell if you are interested in organizing a listener meet-up or talk by Dr. Campbell during her trip to Europe in April 2023.
- Get free gift "5 Things You Need to Know about YOUR Brain when you sign up for the free Brain ScienceNewsletter to get show notes automatically every month. You can also text brainscience to 55444 to sign up.
- Check out the Brain Science podcast channel on YouTube
- Support Brain Science by buying Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD. (Autographed copies are available)
- Check out the free Brain Science Mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows. (It's a great way to get both new episodes and premium content.)
- Learn more ways to support Brain Science at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/donations
Connect on Social Media:
- Twitter: @docartemis
- Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/brainsciencepodcast
Contact Dr. Campbell:
- Email: [email protected]
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | As my friend Lisa Feldman Barrett says, of course we have a nature, but our nature is to be nurtured. |
| 0:09.0 | None of us grow up in a vacuum. All of us grow up with other people and in cultures. |
| 0:15.0 | And what we see in emotions is that emotions take on the qualities of those environments or fit or help you prepare or be a person in those |
| 0:26.0 | environments and in those cultures. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Brain Science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in |
| 0:36.6 | neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brain makes us human. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is |
| 0:44.2 | episode 199. You can find complete show notes, episode transcripts, and much |
| 0:50.3 | more at brainscience podcast.com and you can send me feedback at brain science podcast at gmail |
| 0:56.6 | dot com. Today we will be talking with Batcha mosquito author of Between Us, How Cultures Create Emotions. |
| 1:06.5 | This episode complements episode 135 with Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions are Made. |
| 1:15.0 | You can get show notes automatically every month if you sign up for the free brain science newsletter |
| 1:21.0 | at the website brain science podcast |
| 1:22.6 | or just text brain science all one word to 55444 |
| 1:29.2 | when you sign up you'll also get a free gift entitled Five Things You Need to Know about |
| 1:35.4 | your brain. Just text brain science all one word to 5544. Because brain science is independently produced, it relies on the |
| 1:46.5 | support of listeners like you. You can learn more at brainscience podcast |
| 1:50.7 | dot com forward slash donations. I'll be back after the interview with |
| 1:56.4 | a summary of the key ideas and a few brief announcements. Welcome to brain science. |
| 2:05.0 | Brain Science. |
| 2:07.0 | Thank you, Chincher. |
| 2:08.0 | Thanks for having me. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -947 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ginger Campbell, MD, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ginger Campbell, MD and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.