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 book Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts (2017) is among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.

Offers a comprehensive review of the classical and most recent theories, research instruments, and cutting-edge findings in the scholarship on love.

Explores the topic of love and culture from interdisciplinary biological and social science vantage point.

Provides a uniquely international perspective on the dimensions of love and culture.

Chapter 1: Love in the context of emotional life: A cross-cultural diversity of emotional experience and expression.- Chapter 2: Conceptions of love across cultures.- Chapter 3: Passion of love, erotic and sexual experience.- Chapter 4: Idealization and romantic beliefs in love.- Chapter 5: Love as joyful and powerful experience.- Chapter 6: Maladaptive experience of love.- Chapter 7: Love as commitment.- Chapter 8: Love as union and affiliation.- Chapter 9: Rational love.- Chapter 10: Love as respect, admiration, and submission to a partner.- Chapter 11: Love as benevolence.- Chapter 12: Love as intimacy.- Chapter 13: Love as dependency, attachment, trust, and honesty.- Chapter 14: Reviewing the past and projecting the future of cross-cultural love research.