<p><strong>Dr. Victor Karandashev</strong> is Professor of Psychology at Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a scholar with extensive international and cross-cultural experience and interests. He has conducted research on international psychology in several European countries, including universities in Germany, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. He was a visiting professor and a Fulbright Scholar in the USA. He has presented his work related to international and cross-cultural psychology at many conferences. He co-edited three volumes of <em>Teaching Psychology around</em> <em>the World</em> (2007, 2009, 2012). His major area of research interests is the studies of love and culture, a topic about which he has published several articles, chapters, and monographs. His recent books <em>Romantic Love in</em> <em>Cultural Contexts</em> (2017), <em>Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the</em> <em>Experience and Expression of Love</em> (2019), <em>Cultural Models of</em> <em>Emotions</em> (2021), and <em>Cultural Typologies of Love</em> (2022) are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.</p>
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