But Dutch social psychologist Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions (2022), has spent years looking into the cultural side of emotions, and makes a different case. Was Joy’s mistake thinking that Riley’s emotions existed distinctly within the safety of her mind, separate from the external world? Does viewing emotions as singular experiences hamper our understanding of their true impact and complexity? Social emotionsĮmotions have traditionally been studied as physiological occurrences – controlled by the hardwiring of our brains, and as such, universal and unchanging. By trying to solve all of Riley’s problems with happiness – despite the changing world around Riley being decidedly ‘unhappy’ – Joy inadvertently causes Riley to retreat inside herself and become numb to the outside world.
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