The Mind in Context

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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. Lisa Feldman Barrett PhD is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University with research appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is a faculty member at the MGH Center for Law Brain and Behavior. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives and incorporates insights from anthropology philosophy linguistics and the history of psychology. She is the recipient of a Pioneer Award from the National Institute of Health among numerous other awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science. She was a founding Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review and cofounder of the Society for Affective Science. Dr. Barrett has published more than 170 papers and book chapters. Eliot R. Smith PhD is Classes of the War Years Chancellors Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. His research interests include the role of emotion in prejudice and intergroup behavior as well as socially situated cognition. Dr. Smiths research has been recognized by the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for lifetime contributions to social cognition from Indiana University as well as the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He has served as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science the Society for Personality and Social Psychology the American Psychological Association and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.