Batja Mesquita

Batja Mesquita is a professor and director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology at KU Leuven, a position Mesquita has held since 2007. Mesquita received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam in 1993 and holds additional degrees in psychology and philosophy from the same institution. Prior to joining KU Leuven, Mesquita served as an associate professor of psychology at Wake Forest University from 2002 to 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at the Research Center of Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan. Mesquita's research focuses on cultural psychology, with particular emphasis on how culture shapes emotional experience, expression, and regulation across diverse populations including acculturating youth, immigrant minorities, and couples navigating cross-cultural relationships.