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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This ambitious volume integrates findings from various disciplines
in a comprehensive description of the modern research on love and
provides a systematic review of love experience and expression from
cross-cultural perspective. It explores numerous interdisciplinary
topics, bringing together research in biological and social
sciences to explore love, probing the cross-cultural similarities
and differences in the feelings, thoughts, and expressions of love.
The book's scope, which includes a review of major theories and key
research instruments, provides a comprehensive background for any
reader interested in developing an enlightened understanding of the
cultural diversity in the concepts, experience, and expression of
love. Included among the chapters: How do people in different
cultures conceptualize love? How similar and different are the
experiences and expressions of love across cultures? What are the
cultural factors affecting the experience and expression of love?
Cross-cultural understanding of love as passion, joy, commitment,
union, respect, submission, intimacy, dependency, and more. A
review of the past and looking into the future of cross-cultural
love research. Critical reading for our global age, Cross-Cultural
Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love promotes a
thorough understanding of cross-cultural similarities and
differences in love, and in so doing is valuable not only for love
scholars, emotion researchers, and social psychologists, but also
for practitioners and clinicians working with multicultural couples
and families. "The most striking feature of this book is the broad
array of perspectives that is covered. Love is portrayed as a
universally found emotion with biological underpinnings. The text
expands from this core, incorporating a wide range of
manifestations of love: passion, admiration of and submission to a
partner, gift giving and benevolence, attachment and trust, etc.
Information on each topic comes from a variety of sources,
cross-culturally and interdisciplinary. The text is integrative
with a focus on informational value of ideas and findings. If you
take an interest in how love in its broadest sense is experienced
and expressed, you will find this to be a very rich text." Ype H.
Poortinga, Tilburg University, The Netherlands & Catholic
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium "In this wide-ranging book,
Victor Karandashev expertly guides us through the dazzling
complexity of our concept and experience of love. Not only does he
show the many different ingredients that make up our conceptions of
love in particular cultures, such as idealization of the beloved,
commitment, union, intimacy, friendship, and others, he draws our
attention to the bewildering array of differences between their
applications in different cultural contexts, or to their presence
or absence in a culture. In reading the book, we also get as a
bonus an idea of how an elusive concept such as love can be
scientifically studied by a variety of methodologies - all to our
benefit. A masterful accomplishment." Koevecses Zoltan, Eoetvoes
Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary "Long considered a research
purview of only a portion of the world's cultures, we know today
that love is universal albeit with many cultural differences in
meaning, form, and expression. Moreover, love has a rich history of
scholarship across multiple disciplines. Within this backdrop,
Karandashev has compiled a remarkably comprehensive global review
of how people experience and express their emotions in love.
Covering the topic from a truly international and interdisciplinary
perspective, this book is an indispensable source of knowledge
about cultural and cross-cultural studies conducted in recent
decades and is a must read for anyone interested in the universal
and culturally diverse aspects of love." David Matsumoto, San
Francisco State University, Director of SFSU's Culture and Emotion
Research Laboratory
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