Cultural Models of Emotions

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.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Cultural parameters and their influence on emotions and relationships.- 3.    Basic emotional processes in cultural contexts.- 4. Cultural models of emotions in cultural contexts.- 5. Cultural models of emotional experience.- 6. Cultural models based on expression of emotions.- Conclusion.