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Chapter 1 sets love in the general context of emotional life. The experience and expression of love substantially depend on the cultural context of people’s emotional life. People experience and express love in a variety of emotions, and therefore, cultural differences of emotional organization certainly matter in this regard. A cultural diversity of emotional experience and expression reflects love beliefs and attitudes.

The chapter describes a cultural diversity in understanding the nature of emotion, providing the examples of Western, Chinese, and Indian conceptualizations of emotion. Then, the chapter considers the broader perspectives on conceptualization of emotions across cultures in terms of lexicon, metaphors, and cultural roots. Finally, the chapter describes how people in different cultures experience and express emotions.

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Karandashev, V. (2019). Love in the Cultural Context of Emotional Life. In: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15020-4_1

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