Cross-cultural perspectives on the experience and expression of love /

Cross-cultural perspectives on the experience and expression of love /

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Author / Creator:Karandashev, Victor.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature : Springer, 2019.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Love -- Cross-cultural studies.
Social psychology -- Research.
Love.
Social psychology -- Research.
Cross-cultural studies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11913530
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ISBN:9783030150204
3030150208
9783030150198
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019)
Summary: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."Kövecses Zoltán, Eötvös Loránd 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
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; The Modern History of Love Research; The Aims and Features of the Book; Interdisciplinary Methodological Approach to Love Research; Structure of the Book; Chapter 1: Love in the Cultural Context of Emotional Life; 1.1 Cultural Diversity in Understanding the Nature of Emotion; Diversity in Cultural Understanding of Emotion; Emotion as Cultural Appraisal; Western Conception of Emotion; Chinese Understanding of Emotion; Conceptions of Emotion in India; 1.2 Conceptualization of Emotions Across Cultures
  • Giving a Voice to the VoicelessThe Universal Concepts of Emotions; The Cultural Roots of Emotional Concepts; Diversity of Emotion Lexicon Across Cultures; Culture, Language, and Emotions; Metaphorical Reflections of Emotions; Location of Emotional Experience; Heart Metaphor of Emotion; Body Metaphors for Embodiment of Emotion; 1.3 How People Experience and Express Emotions in Different Cultures; A Universal Cross-Cultural Background for Emotional Experience; Cultural Norms of Experience and Expression of Emotions; American vs. Asian Comparison of Emotional Experience and Expression
  • Experience and Expression of Emotion in a Chinese VillageChinese vs. Mexican Comparison of Emotional Experience and Expression; Gender Differences of Experience and Expression of Emotions in American Context; Gender Differences of Experience and Expression of Emotions Cross-Culturally; The Biological, Social, and Cultural Factors of Gender Differences in Experience and Expression of Emotions; Smile as Expression of Emotions and Love; References; Chapter 2: Conceptions of Love Across Cultures; 2.1 What Is love?; Love as a Fussy and Multifaceted Concept; Categorical Definitions of Love
  • Prototypical Definitions of LoveMetaphorical Definitions of Love; Love as an Emotion and Emotional Complex; Love as a Disposition and Love as a State; 2.2 The Cross-Cultural Reality of Love; Definitions of Love in Cultural Research; Is Love a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon?; Cross-Cultural Lexical Analysis of Love; Cross-Cultural Comparison of Prototypical Lexicon of Emotions; The Lexical Explorations in Cultural Anthropology; What Does the Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Diversity of Love Words Tell Us?; Cultural Differences in Expression of Love; References
  • Chapter 3: Passion of Love, Erotic, and Sexual Experience3.1 What Is Passion?; Passion as the Intensity of an Emotion; Passion of Love; Passion as the Fire of Love; 3.2 Passion Across Cultures; Is Passion a Cross-Cultural Experience of Love?; Cross-Cultural Variety of Passion; Passion as the Eros Love Attitude in Multicultural Settings; Passion as the Eros Love Attitude in Cross-National Studies; Evolutional Factors Affecting Experience of Passion in Love; Cultural Factors Affecting Experience of Passion in Love; 3.3 The Experience of Erotic Love Across Cultures

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