Varieties of Love as Interpersonal Attraction

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 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 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), Cultural Models of Emotions (2021), and Cultural Typologies of Love (2022) are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.

• Conceptualizing Love as an Interpersonal Attraction.- The Biology and Psychophysiology of Love as Interpersonal Attraction.- Physical and Sexual Interpersonal Attraction in Love.- Love as Psychological Interpersonal Attraction.- Social and Cultural Factors of Love as Interpersonal Attraction.- Within-Cultural and Inter-Cultural Interpersonal Attraction.