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.

Here are the 42 working titles:
01 – Philosophical approaches to emotion and cultural modulation
        Michael J. Deem (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

02 – The biocultural history of emotions
        Rob Boddice (Tampere University, Finland)

03 – Evolutionary and cultural aspects of emotion-based stories in fictional literature, films, and graphic media
        Keith Oatley, Si Jia Wu (University of Toronto, Canada)

04 – Origins and consequences of cultural variability in emotion language
Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of Chicago, USA)
        Kristen Lindquist (The Ohio State University, 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 – Culture and emotion: An anthropological view
        Andrew Beatty (Brunel University London, UK)
07 – Culture in the psychological construction of emotion
        James Russell (Boston College, USA)

08 – Natural and cultural selection in emotion: Evolution isn’t what it used to be
        Alan J. Fridlund (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Carlos Crivelli (De Montfort University, UK)
Blythe Williams (Duke University, USA)

09 – The interplay of evolution and culture in emotion: A basic emotion perspective
        Dacher Keltner, Laura Guzman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

10 – Appraisal processes in emotion experiences: The role of culture
        Susanna Schmidt (University of Torino, Italy)
Phoebe C. Ellsworth (University of Michigan, USA)
Klaus R. Scherer (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
11 – LeDoux, J. E. (2020). Thoughtful feelings. Current Biology, 30(11), R619-R623.
        Joseph LeDoux (New York University, USA)

12 – Emotion in voice and language across cultures: A modern perspective
        Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London, UK)

13 – Cultural contributions to emotion inference
        Maria Gendron (Yale University, USA)

14 – Emotions, expressions, and culture: An emic approach
        Carlos Crivelli (De Montfort University, UK)
Sergio Jarillo (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

15 – Nonverbal behavior, emotion, and culture
        José-Miguel Fernández-Dols (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
        José Sánchez-García (UNIR, Spain)
16 – 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)

17 – Emotion socialization in the cultural context: The impact on emotional development
        Yang Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Qi Wang (Cornell University, USA)

18 – The development of children’s understanding of emotions: Variation and stability across cultures
        Liao Cheng, Paul L. Harris (Harvard University, USA)

19 – Culture, emotion, and cognitive aging
        Kesaan Kandasamy, Kathryn Bolton, Lixia Yang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

20 – Motivational mechanisms behind emotional preferences across adulthood and cultures
        Nicole Fung, Xianmin Gong, Helene Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
21 – Gendering emotion across cultures and throughout history
        Shaocong Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Stephanie Shields (Penn State University, USA)

22 – Culture and intergroup emotions
        Angela T. Maitner (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Diane M. Mackie (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Eliot R. Smith (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

23 – Social functions of emotion: A cultural perspective
        Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Antony Manstead (Cardiff University, UK)

24 – Emotion mapped across the globe: Similarities and differences
        Michelle Yik, Ziyue Zhu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

25 – The cultural shaping of ideal affect: Past, present, and future trends
        Jeanne Tsai, Verity Lua, Raphael Uricher (Stanford University, USA)

26 – Emotion and culture in the human-nature relationship
        Kevin Tam (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
William Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
        Vivien Pong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

27 – Social and emotion norms: Features and cultural variations
        Cristina Salvador, Kirby Lam, Mercedes Muñoz (Duke University, USA)

28 – Making risky decisions: The role of emotion and culture
        Ellick Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

29 – Culture and emotional memory: Existing evidence and future directions
        Elizabeth Kensinger, Marie Coura Diagne (Boston College, USA)

30 – Emotional intelligence through a cultural lens
        Marc Brackett, Shengjie Lin, Zorana Ivcevic, Zhenlan Wang (Yale University, USA)
31 – Advances in culture and subjective well-being
        June Kim (The College of New Jersey, USA)

32 – Culture, emotion regulation, and its implications for health
        William Tsai (New York University, USA)

33 – Culture and emotion regulation
        Maya Tamir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

34 – The cultural shaping of emotional disorders: Somatization vs. psychologization
        Andrew G. Ryder, Gesa Duden, Jiahong Sun (Concordia University, Canada)
Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton (Georgetown University, USA)

35 – Considering the role of culture in anger
        Kinga Szymaniak, Thomas Denson, Eddie Harmon-Jones (University of New South Wales, Australia)

36 – Shame and culture
        W. Gerrod Parrott (Georgetown University, USA)

37 – Culture and well-being: Five empirical approaches
        Madison Montemayor-Dominguez, James Chinn, Stephen Cadieux, Sonja Lyubomirsky
(University of California, Riverside, USA)


38 – Amae, awe and saudade: Culturally specific emotions from distinct parts of the world
        Igor de Almeida (Kyoto University, Japan)
        Pamela Taylor (Akita International University, Japan)

39 – Respect, admiration, and fear: Cross-cultural consistencies and differences
        Kunalan Manokara (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Kerry Kawakami (York University, Canada)
Catherine Wan Ching (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

40 – Face and emotion 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)

41 – The emergence of kama muta: Over 2,000,000 years, through centuries, in a human lifespan, in hours, and in milliseconds
        Alan Page Fiske (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
42 – An epilogue
        Batja Mesquita (KU Leuven, Belgium)