Cultural Models of Emotions
About this eBook
Among the topics covered:
- Basic emotional processes in cultural contexts
- Cultural complexity of emotions
- Survival and self-expression cultural values
- Facial expressiveness of emotion across cultures
Cultural Models of Emotion is a comprehensive review of international perspectives on cross-cultural exploration of emotions, and will be a useful resource for researchers in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and communication studies.
About the author
Dr. Victor Karandashev is Professor of Psychology at Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a scholar with extensive international and cross-cultural experience and interests and has conducted research on international psychology in several European countries, including universities in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. He was a visiting professor and a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S.A, and has presented his work related to international and cross-cultural psychology at many conferences. He co-edited three volumes of Teaching Psychology around the World (2007, 2009, 2012). His major area of research interest is the study of love, a topic about which he has published several articles, chapters, and monographs. His recent books Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts (2017) and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love (2019) are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.
