Projects
The role of cultural concerns and 'grounding' in emotional acculturation (with reservation). KU Leuven
Within the Centre for Cultural and Social Psychology, the PhD student will focus on investigating the underlying constructs that drive the process of emotional acculturation. Emotional acculturatio1 is the process by which ethnicÂcultural minorities share common patterns of emotional experiences of ethnic-culturaI majorities in a country in such a way that they exhibit an increasing degree of similarity, or fit. How does emotional ...
Conditions of emotional acculturation KU Leuven
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 ...
Emotional Acculturation in Minority Youth KU Leuven
If two people share an emotion , for example by being happy or angry for the same reasons, this means that they look at the world in a similar way. The more time couples and group members spend together, the more they tend to share the same emotions; moreover, emotional similarity in a couple or a group makes people happier. Preliminary research has suggested that a similar phenomenon happens to immigrants: As they spend more time in the new ...
A process model of emotional acculturation. KU Leuven
The more contact immigrant minorities have with members from the majority culture, the more they experience emotions that are typical in the majority culture; this is what we call ‘emotional acculturation.’ Although we know that the fit between immigrant minority and majority emotions increases when they interact, we do not know what processes contribute to this increased emotional fit. The current project aims to fill this gap by studying ...
Project Spanish Federal Research Fund: "Emotion, memory, linguistic identity and emotional acculturation: influences on the learning of Spanish as a migrant language" KU Leuven
Within this project (funding by the Spanish Federal Research Fund (FFI2017-83166-C2-2-R; Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad. Gobierno de España; PI: Susana MartÃn Leralta (Universidad Nebrija, Madrid), 27.467€) we investigate the possible impact of migration on language and emotions. Emotional experiences are closely related to the cultures to which we belong and the languages we speak. As a result of migrations, when people ...
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as Gateways to Minority Inclusion KU Leuven
Emotions are key processes of social inclusion. Because emotions vary across cultures, immigrant minorities may be at a disadvantage in majority culture. The current grant builds on this idea that emotions be invisible gatekeepers that keep minorities out of majority cultural contexts. In the proposed studies we test the role of emotional acculturation --the changes in emotions resulting from immigrant minorities’ exposure to majority ...
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as Gateways to Minority Inclusion KU Leuven
International migration has often been referred to as one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Numbers of immigrants have been increasing, but social integration of migrants and their children is lagging at the detriment of immigrant minorities themselves and often resulting in conflict within receiving societies. EmotionAcculturation investigates the role of emotions, as key processes of interaction, for immigrant minorities’ social ...
Intergroup contact and resistance against ethnic minority groups: the role of acculturation orientations and intergroup emotions. KU Leuven
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation. KU Leuven
In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation that centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. I start from the cultural psychological insights that people are encouraged and rewarded to fit their socio-cultural ...