Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love

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Heart metaphors in Beja

“…in English (Kövecses 1986), Basque (Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2008 or French, Russian, and many other languages (e .g . Karandashev 2019) . Negative ones concern worry, Despair and pain .…”

Commonalities and differences between schemas of five types of love

“…The concepts present in a schema are intrinsically related to culture and comprise knowledge and experience in a specific context (Rumelhart & Norman, 1985). Then, it makes sense that even though love could be considered a universal emotion and has been an adaptive mechanism essential in our evolutionary history (Buss, 2006; Kenrick, 2006), the conceptualizations of love vary according to the cultural context in which people live (see Karandashev, 2019). Indeed, studies have shown cultural differences and similarities between love prototypes (e.g., Fehr, 1994; Munck et al, 2011; Shaver et al, 2001, see Fehr, 2006).…”

Why are depression symptoms scores greater in people experiencing romantic love?

“…However, another factor that could account for the differences is the cultural differences between Iran and Finland. Romantic love is similar cross-culturally but some differences do exist (Feybesse & Hatfield, 2019;Karandashev, 2019). For example, culture has been shown to influence self-reported importance of personality, physical appearance, propinquity, similarity, readiness, isolation, mystery, and social standing in the development of romantic love (Sprecher et al, 1994).…”