Handbook Project – About the Project

The general goal of this handbook is to bring together contemporary and comparative research in the interplay between emotion and culture, from across the fields of psychology, neuroscience, biology, anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics, forming a comprehensive and exhaustive handbook. The intended readership of this handbook will be inclusive, ranging from researchers and scholars in the academic community, through coaches and trainers in the professional community, to students in the tertiary market.

Our 37 chapters are contributed by 93 authors (55% female) from 15 countries:
01 – Appraisal theories and culture
Phoebe C. Ellsworth (University of Michigan, USA)
Klaus R. Scherer (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Susanna Schmidt (University of Torino, Italy)
02 – The biocultural history of emotions
Rob Boddice (University of Helsinki, Finland)
03 – Culture and emotion: An anthropological view
Andrew Beatty (Brunel University London, UK)
04 – The emergence of kama muta: Over millions of years, months, and milliseconds
Alan Page Fiske (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
05 – Emotion and the language-culture nexus
Maia Ponsonnet (CNRS, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage/Université Lyon 2, France)
Francesco De Toni (The Australian National University, Australia)
06 – Evolutionary and cultural aspects of emotion-based stories in fictional literature, films, and graphic media
Keith Oatley (University of Toronto, Canada)
Si Jia Wu (University of Toronto, Canada)
07 – The interplay of evolution and culture in emotion: A basic emotion perspective
Dacher Keltner (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Laura Guzman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
08 – Natural and cultural selection in emotion: Evolution is not what it used to be
Carlos Crivelli (De Montfort University, UK)
Alan J. Fridlund (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Blythe A. Williams (Duke University, USA)
09 – Emotion in voice and language across cultures: A modern perspective
Michelle Schlicher (Technical University of Munich University Hospital, Germany)
Yupei Li (Imperial College London, UK)
Mohamed Mady (Technical University of Munich University Hospital, Germany)
Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy (Technical University of Munich University Hospital, Germany)
Qiyang Sun (Imperial College London, UK)
Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London, UK)
10 – Emotions as events: Cultural contributions to emotion inference
Maria Gendron (Yale University, USA)
Zhimeng Li (Yale University, USA)
11 – Nonverbal behavior and emotion
José-Miguel Fernández-Dols (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
José Sánchez-García (International University of La Rioja, Spain)
12 – The development of children’s understanding of emotions: Variation and stability across cultures
Liao Cheng (Harvard University, USA)
Paul L. Harris (Harvard University, USA)
13 – Emotion socialization in the cultural context: The impact on emotional development
Yang Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Qi Wang (Cornell University, USA)
14 – Emotional development in different cultural contexts
Sivenesi Subramoney (University of California, Merced, USA)
Linda Camras (DePaul University, USA)
Eric Walle (University of California, Merced, USA)
15 – Motivational mechanisms behind emotional preferences across adulthood and cultures
Nicole L. Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Xianmin Gong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Helene H. Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
16 – Culture and intergroup emotions
Angela T. Maitner (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Diane M. Mackie (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Eliot R. Smith (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
17 – Culture and well-being: Five empirical approaches
Madison Montemayor-Dominguez (University of California, Riverside, USA)
James Chinn (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Stephen Cadieux (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Sonja Lyubomirsky (University of California, Riverside, USA)
18 – Cultural variation in ideal affect: Daily manifestations and real-world applications
Jeanne L. Tsai (Stanford University, USA)
Verity Lua (Stanford University, USA)
Raphael Uricher (Stanford University, USA)
19 – Emotion and culture in the human-nature relationship
Kim-Pong Tam (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Hoi-Wing Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Vivien Pong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
20 – Gendering emotion across cultures and throughout history
Shaocong Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Stephanie A. Shields (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
21 – Mapping emotion across the world: Similarities and differences
Michelle Yik (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Ziyue Zhu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
22 – Social and emotion norms: Features and cultural variation
Cristina E. Salvador (Duke University, USA)
Kirby T. Lam (Duke University, USA)
Mercedes M. Muñoz (Duke University, USA)
23 – Social functions of emotion: A cultural perspective
Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Antony Manstead (Cardiff University, UK)
24 – Culture, emotion, and cognitive aging
Kesaan Kandasamy (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Kathryn Bolton (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Lixia Yang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
25 – Culture and emotional memory: Existing evidence and future directions
Elizabeth A. Kensinger (Boston College, USA)
Marie Coura Diagne (Boston College, USA)
26 – Emotional intelligence through a cultural lens
Shengjie Lin (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, USA)
James Floman (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, USA)
Zorana Ivcevic (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, USA)
Zhenlan Wang (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, USA)
Marc Brackett (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, USA)
27 – Affective drivers of risky decisions: Universal patterns and cultural variations
Amanda Zaidan Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Carmen K. Ng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Kin Fai Ellick Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Jessica Y. Y. Kwong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
28 – Origins and consequences of cultural variability in emotion language
Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of Chicago, USA)
Kristen Lindquist (The Ohio State University, USA)
29 – LeDoux, J. E. (2020). Thoughtful feelings. Current Biology, 30(11), R619-R623.
Joseph E. LeDoux (New York University, USA)
30 – Culture, emotion regulation, and its implications for health
William Tsai (New York University, USA)
31 – Culture and subjective well-being: Current trends and advances
June Kim (The College of New Jersey, USA)
Julianna Boyle (The College of New Jersey, USA)
32 – The cultural shaping of emotional disorders: Somatization vs. psychologization
Andrew G. Ryder (Concordia University, Canada)
Gesa S. Duden (Concordia University, Canada)
Jiahong Sun (Concordia University, Canada)
Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton (Georgetown University, USA)
33 – Considering the role of culture in anger
Kinga Szymaniak (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Thomas F. Denson (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Eddie Harmon-Jones (University of New South Wales, Australia)
34 – Culturally specific emotions
Igor de Almeida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Pamela Taylor (Akita International University, Japan)
35 – Face and emotional regulation in Chinese societies
Frederick T. L. Leong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
SinHui Chong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Lanting Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
36 – Respect through an emotion lens: Admiration, pride, and fear
Kunalan Manokara (Duke University, USA)
Kerry Kawakami (York University, Canada)
Catherine Wan Ching (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
37 – Shame and culture
W. Gerrod Parrott (Georgetown University, USA)
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