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. Our 38 chapters are contributed by 94 authors (54% female) from 15 countries:
1. Appraisal Theories and Culture | Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Klaus R. Scherer, & Susanna Schmidt
2. The Interplay of Evolution and Culture in Emotion: A Basic Emotion Perspective | Dacher Keltner & Laura Guzman
3. Natural and Cultural Selection in Emotion and Behavior: Evolution Isn’t What It Used to Be | Carlos Crivelli, Alan J. Fridlund, & Blythe A. Williams
4. Culture in the Psychological Construction of Emotion | James A. Russell, Maria Gendron, Alan J. Fridlund, & Michelle Yik
5. The Biocultural History of Emotions | Rob Boddice
6. Culture and Emotion: An Anthropological View | Andrew Beatty
7. Evolutionary and Cultural Aspects of Emotion-based Stories in Fictional Literature, Film, and Graphic Media | Keith Oatley & Si Jia Wu
8. Emotion and Nonverbal Interaction Across Cultures: Insights from Ethology | José-Miguel Fernández-Dols & José Sánchez-García
9. The Development of Children’s Understanding of Emotions: Variation and Stability across Cultures | Liao Cheng & Paul L. Harris
10. Family Emotion Socialization in the Cultural Context | Yang Yang & Qi Wang
11. Emotional Development in Different Cultural Contexts | Sivenesi Subramoney, Eric Walle, & Linda Camras
12. Gendering Emotion Across Cultures and Throughout History | Shaocong Ma & Stephanie A. Shields
13. Motivational Mechanisms Behind Emotional Preferences in Cognitive Processing Across Adulthood and Cultures | Nicole L. Fung, Xianmin Gong, & Helene H. Fung
14. Culture, Emotion, and Cognitive Aging | Kesaan Kandasamy, Kathryn Bolton, & Lixia Yang
15. Culture and Intergroup Emotions | Angela T. Maitner, Diane M. Mackie, & Eliot R. Smith
16. Social Functions of Emotion: A Cultural Perspective | Agneta Fischer & Antony Manstead
17. Mapping Emotion Around the World: Similarities and Differences | Michelle Yik & Ziyue Zhu
18. Cultural Variation in Ideal Affect: Implications for Individual, Interpersonal, and Collective Behavior | Verity Lua, Raphael Uricher, & Jeanne L. Tsai
19. Social and Emotion Norms: Features and Cultural Variation | Cristina E Salvador, Kirby T. Lam, & Mercedes M. Munoz
20. Emotion and Culture in the Human-Nature Relationship | Kim-Pong Tam, Vivien Pong, & Hoi-Wing Chan
21. LeDoux, J. E. (2020). Thoughtful feelings. Current Biology, 30(11), R619-R623.
22. Culture and Emotional Memory: Existing Evidence and Future Directions | Elizabeth A. Kensinger, & Marie Coura Diagne
23. Emotions as Events: Cultural Contributions to Emotion Inference | Maria Gendron & Zhimeng Li
24. Affective Drivers of Risky Decisions: Universal Patterns and Cultural Variations | Amanda Zaidan Chen, Carmen K. Ng, Kin Fai Ellick Wong, & Jessica Y. Y. Kwong
25. Emotion in Voice and Language Across Cultures: A Modern Perspective | Michelle Schlicher, Yupei Li, Mohamed Mady, Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy, Qiyang Sun, & Björn W. Schuller
26. Emotion and the Language-Culture Nexus | Francesco De Toni & Maïa Ponsonnet
27. Origins and Consequences of Cultural Variation in Emotion Vocabulary | Joshua Conrad Jackson & Kristen Lindquist
28. Culture and Well-Being: Five Empirical Approaches | Madison Montemayor-Dominguez, James Chinn, Stephen Cadieux, & Sonja Lyubomirsky
29. Culture and Subjective Well-Being: Current Trends and Advances | June Kim & Julianna
30. Emotional Intelligence Through a Cultural Lens | Shengjie Lin, James Floman, Zorana Ivcevic, Zhenlan Wang, & Marc Brackett
31. Culture, Emotion Regulation, and its Implications for Health | William Tsai
32. The Cultural Organization of Emotional Disorders: Somatization and Psychologization | Gesa Duden, Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton, & Andrew G. Ryder
33. Face and Emotion Regulation in Chinese Societies | Frederick T.L. Leong, Lanting Cheng, & SinHui Chong
34. The Emergence of Kama Muta Over Millions of Years, Millenia, Months, and Milliseconds | Alan Page Fiske
35. Shame and Culture | W. Gerrod Parrott
36. Anger: Similarities and Differences Among Cultures | Kinga Szymaniak, Thomas F. Denson, & Eddie Harmon-Jones
37. Culturally Specific Emotions as Reflections of Cultural Values: Amae, Saudade, and Awe | Igor de Almeida & Pamela Taylor
38. Respect through an Emotion Lens: Admiration, Pride, and Fear | Kunalan Manokara, Kerry Kawakami, Catherine Ching Wan, & Agneta Fischer