Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions by Batja Mesquita

Published 2022

How hard is Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions to read?

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions scores 49 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
Psychological vocabulary, glossed.
Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
Clear academic-popular sentences.
Abstraction: 58 out of 100
Emotion treated as culturally constituted.
Information density: 58 out of 100
Many studies across cultures.

How Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions is regarded

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions holds a literary regard score of 37 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Batja Mesquita