The cultural shaping of emotion / edited by Jozefien De Leersnyder, KU Leuven.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leersnyder, Jozefien De, editor.

Series:

Studies in emotion and social interaction.

Studies in emotion and social interaction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Anthropological aspects.

Emotions.

Multiculturalism.

Emotions--Sociological aspects.

Interpersonal relations.

Emotions and cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 May 2026).

ISBN:

1-108-76843-1

9781108860956

9781108859325

OCLC:

1601986917