Biological Evolution of Love

Dr. Victor Karandashev is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, International Institute of Love Studies, 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 USA. 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 interest is the study 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), Cultural Models of Emotions (2021), Cultural Typologies of Love (2022), and The Varieties of Love as Interpersonal Attraction (2024), are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.

• Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Love in Evolutionary Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Basic Foundations of the Biological Evolution of Love.- Chapter 3. How Bodily and Nervous Systems Enable Love.- Chapter 4. Biological Evolution of Love as Mating.- Chapter 5. The Biological Evolution of Love Between Parents and Offspring.- Chapter 6. The Biological Evolution of Ingroup Love.