Conditions of emotional acculturation

Emotional Acculturation examines when and how immigrant minorities’ emotions acculturate to fit the emotions of the majority, and when and how this removes the obstacles to integration. It addresses the question of emotional acculturation. EmotionAcculturation adopts a novel approach to psychological acculturation that challenges the tacit assumption in much-existing acculturation research that minority individuals’ cultural affiliation and identity change, but that the ‘psyche itself’ remains untouched. I will be working on the data of a 3-wave longitudinal study with newcomers (immigrants who have just arrived), and will conduct Dyadic Interaction Studies in the lab to test the role of emotional fit in social interactions between white Belgian and Turkish-Belgian individuals.