How can we advance our understanding of emotion through a socio-cultural lens? How do we overcome decade-long debates on universality versus culture-specificity? This book engages with these challenges by documenting rich empirical evidence of similarity as well as cultural variation in how emotions are conceptualised, experienced, expressed, and regulated. Examples include how emotions unfold in romantic relationships and are linked to well-being and distress. With nuance and rigour, it includes diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and examples on numerous specific emotions across varied cultural contexts. The volume also explores how cultureemotion dynamics unfold in multicultural societies, shedding light on emotional acculturation, intergroup relations, and macro-level cultural change under societal threat. Bringing together leading experts worldwide, each chapter outlines promising directions for future research, inviting scholars, practitioners and students across cultural psychology, clinical science, applied linguistics, and relationship research to reimagine emotion as a culturally embedded and socially enacted phenomenon.
Muu info
By exploring how culture and emotion are intertwined, this book reshapes our understanding of emotions and thriving in multicultural worlds.
List of Figures; List of Contributors;
1. Introduction to the Cultural
Shaping of Emotion Jozefien De Leersnyder; Part I. A Cultural Logic to
Emotion:
2. Emotion Universals: The Foundation from which Cultural
Variability of Emotion Emerges Kunalan Manokara and Disa A. Sauter;
3. The
Cultural Logic of Models of Self and Emotion Julie Y. A. Cachia and Jeanne L.
Tsai;
4. A Cultural Logic to the Content of Emotions: Conceptualisations,
Appraisals and Connotations Yukiko Uchida, Kuba Krys and Kongmeng Liew; Part
II. How Cultural Differences in Emotion Come About:
5. Culture, Emotions, and
Distress Yulia E. Chentsova Dutton, Jake Winter, Jinli Wu and Andrew G.
Ryder;
6. Culture and Emotion Regulation Yuri Miyamoto, Maya Tamir and Jeong
Ha (Steph) Choi;
7. Culture and Emotions in Romantic Relationships Anna
Schouten, Michael Boiger, Alexander Kirchner-Häusler and Batja Mesquita; Part
III. Emotion Dynamics in Multicultural Societies:
8. Emotional Acculturation
Alba Jasini, Jozefien De Leersnyder, Heejung Kim and Batja Mesquita;
9.
Emotions across Languages and Cultures Pernelle Lorette and Jean-Marc
Dewaele;
10. Emotions in Multicultural Societies Agneta Fischer and Bertjan
Doosje;
11. Culture and Emotion under Societal Threats: Mutual Constitution
through Cultural Dynamics Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko S. Kashima and Simon
Laham; Part IV. Afterword:
12. The Evolving Science of Culture and Emotion:
Integrating Meaning, Practice, and Development Shinobu Kitayama; Index.
Jozefien De Leersnyder is an Associate Research Professor in the Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology at KU Leuven, Belgium. She is a European Research Council starting grant holder, winner of both national (BAPS) and international (IUPsyS) Early Career Awards, and former co-President of the Belgian Young Academy. Through innovative empirical work, she aims to advance our understanding of the socio-cultural shaping of emotion, acculturation processes and how to design (educational) contexts such that everyone can thrive in today's multicultural world.
