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This timely volume offers an integrative approach and a culturally diverse view of love conceptions, experiences, and expressions, building on both individual and cultural typologies of love. It comprehensively presents cultural and cross-cultural studies on how culture affects love, and offers a systematic description of types and cultural models of love. The comprehensive reviews of methodology and findings provide a solid empirical basis for the creation of formal typologies.
This book will be useful for researchers interested in cross-cultural studies of love across many disciplines. Its accessible language also makes it ideal for undergraduate and graduate students. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of:
- Cultural conceptions of love and methods for their research
- Multiple perspectives in the studies of love across world cultures
- Cultural models and typologies in an international perspective
- Cultural models and typologies from an interdisciplinary scientific perspective
List of contents
Introduction.- Love concepts, their diverse contents, and definitions.- Models and typologies of love.- Socio-biological models of love.- Sexual models of love.- Models of passionate and affectionate love.- Models of romantic love.- Models of love as social connections.- Models of rational love.- Conclusion.- Index.
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. He has conducted research on international psychology in several European countries, including universities in Germany, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. He was a visiting professor and a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S.A. He 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 interests is the studies of love and culture, a topic about which he has published several articles, chapters, and monographs. His recent books
Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts (2017),
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love (2019), and
Cultural Models of Emotions (2021) are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.
