The Cultural Shaping of Emotion: From antecedents for emotional acculturation to consequences of emotion socialization in diverse classrooms Over the past 50 years, there have been heated debates on the role of culture in emotion. About 10 years ago, Jozefien, Alba and their collaborators joined this conversation by contributing evidence on the process of emotional acculturation – i.e., changes in people’s patterns of emotional experience upon continuous firsthand contact with another culture – that can be considered as particularly strong evidence for the cultural shaping of emotion. In this talk, Alba and Jozefien will provide an overview of their work with Korean Americans, Turkish Belgians, and ethnic minoritized adolescents in Belgium, with whom they collected longitudinal and friendship-network data, as well as experimental and observational evidence on emotional change. Their studies demonstrate that people’s emotional patterns fit more closely to a particular culture’s typical emotional patterns upon being exposed to that culture and, especially, upon nurturing friendships with members of that culture – for minoritized participants this held true across host-culture and heritage-culture contexts and even ethnic majority pupils tended to acculturate emotionally to their minoritized peers if they navigated an interethnic classroom. Moreover, these studies showed that newly acquired emotional patterns do not seem to replace the old ones, but to come to co-exist with them, such that different emotional patterns can be activated by different socio-cultural contexts of interaction, highlighting the attunement of emotions to cultural contexts. Finally, there is some first evidence that people’s emotional fit with a culture is linked to both their psychological and relational well-being, suggesting that emotions may be key to minorities’ social inclusion and well-being. If time allows, Alba and Jozefien will also provide a first glimpse into the results of their new project that builds on the previous insights and applies them to the context of socio-emotional learning in superdiverse primary schools. Throughout this talk, we will highlight how our studies’ findings and methods may advance the fields of emotion, culture and acculturation psychology. ON SITE & Zoom : https://unige.zoom.us/j/67710781190?pwd=ECLec79aHEX1MkpqI0eGcY7Kt77TSE.1 Meeting ID: 677 1078 1190 Passcode: 579033