Cultural Typologies of Love

This timely volume offers an integrative approach and a culturally diverse view of love conceptions, experiences, and expressions, building on both individual and cultural typologies of love. It comprehensively presents cultural and cross-cultural studies on how culture affects love, and offers a systematic description of types and cultural models of love. The comprehensive reviews of methodology and findings provide a solid empirical basis for the creation of formal typologies.

This book will be useful for researchers interested in cross-cultural studies of love across many disciplines. Its accessible language also makes it ideal for undergraduate and graduate students. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of:

• Cultural conceptions of love and methods for their research
• Multiple perspectives in the studies of love across world cultures
• Cultural models and typologies in an international perspective
• Cultural models and typologies from an interdisciplinary scientific perspective

1.      Cultures, subcultures, and mixed cultures 2.      Cultural and societal parameters of love. The roles of evolution and culture in love. 3.      Model of passionate love 4.      Model of sensual love 5.      Model of romantic love 6.      Model of companionate love 7.      Ideal and real models of love 8.      Love as fate and love as choice 9.      Cultural model of love as commitment 10.  Cultural model of love as friendship 11.  Rational and pragmatic models of love; love as exchange. 12.  Altruistic model of love 13.  Hookup culture of love 14.  Model of love in the era of social media 15.  How the cultural models of love are spread across the world 16.  The mixtures of models. What the future models of love will be.

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 U.S.A. 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), and Cultural Models of Emotions (2021) are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.