Cultural Models of Emotions

Introduction

1. Diversity of cultures

1.1. What is culture?

1.2. National and regional cultures

1.3. Regions of country as cultures

1.4. Ethnic cultures and multiculturalism

1.5. Mixed cultures

1.6. The cultures of socioeconomic status and social class



1.7. Religious cultures

2. Cultural parameters and their influence on emotions and relationships

2.1.  Collectivism and individualism as cultural dimensions

2.2. Multifaceted nature of individualism-collectivism dimensions

2.3. Power Distance2.4. Masculinity-femininity

2.5. Cultures of Honor

2.6. Immediacy cultural dimension

2.7. Context differentiation

2.8. Temporal pattern as a cultural parameter

2.9. Reaction to ambiguity and uncertainty as a cultural parameter

2.10.   Survival and self-expression cultural values

2.11.   Relational mobility

3.       Basic emotional processes in cultural contexts

3.1. General construction of emotional life

3.2. Physiology of emotional response

3.3. Subjective emotional experience

3.4. How culture affects emotions

3.5. Cultural complexity of emotions

4.       Cultural models of emotions in cultural contexts

4.1. What are the models of emotion?

4.2.  Structure of cultural models of emotion

4.3. Diversity of cultural models and their relations

5.       Cultural models of emotional experience

5.1. The models based on the locus of emotions

5.2. Cultural models based on the value of experienced emotions

5.3. Cultural models based on intensity of emotional experience

6.       Cultural models based on expression of emotions

6.1. Expressive and non-expressive cultural models

6.2. Facial expressiveness of emotion

6.3. Models of direct and indirect expression of emotions



Conclusion

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.