Projects
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 ...
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. This approach 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 socially ‘wired’ to fit their socio-cultural ...
Related and autonomous: Cultural perspectives on self, acculturation and adjustment KU Leuven
How are culturally valued ways of being and relating reflected in different self-construals across individualistic and collectivistic cultural contexts? What happens to the self-construal of acculturating persons from a collectivistic cultural background who either migrate to, or who are born into, individualistic mainstream cultures? Self-construals – how people define themselves in relation to others – differ between ...
Unpacking the Black Box of Emotional Acculturation. KU Leuven
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 ...
Contextualizing acculturation patterns and pathways of minority adolescents: A developmental and intergroup relations approach KU Leuven
Adolescents grow up in an increasingly culturally diverse world due to continuing migration. As they are expanding their social world, immigrant-origin minority adolescents in particular have to reconcile a distinct heritage culture with a common mainstream culture in the wider society. Against the backdrop of unequal chances and assimilationist pressures in today’s society, the integration of heritage and mainstream cultures can be a ...
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 ...