The Cultural Shaping of Emotion

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-108-48798-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

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 culture–emotion 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Leersnyder, Jozefien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

de Leersnyder, Jozefien
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.