Dr. Victor Karandashev joined Aquinas College in 2010. 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 Teaching
Psychology around the World (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 “Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts” (2017),
“Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love” (2019), “Cultural
Models of Emotions” (2021), and “Cultural Typologies of Love” (2022) are among
the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.
Dr. Karandashev is Professor of Psychology teaching Abnormal Psychology, Social Psychology,
Motivation and Emotion, and Introductory Psychology. He is the Faculty Representative
for the Aquinas chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.
Dr. Karandashev is happily married for more than 40 years. They have a daughter, son,
and four beautiful granddaughters.
Recent books
Karandashev, V. Cultural typologies of love. Springer Nature.
Karandashev, V. (2021). Cultural diversity of romantic love experience. In C. Mayer
& E. Vanderheiden (Eds.), International handbook of love (pp.59-79). Springer International.
Karandashev, V. (2021). Cultural models of emotions. Springer Nature.
Karandashev, V. (2019). Cross-cultural perspectives on the experience and expression
of love. New York, NY: Springer.
Karandashev, V. (2017). Romantic love in cultural contexts. New York, NY: Springer.
Karandashev, V. & Evans, N.D. (2017). Test of Implicit Associations in Relationship
Attitudes (TIARA): Manual for a new method. New York, NY: Springer.
Recent articles
Karandashev, V., Evans, N. D., Neto, F., Zarubko, E., Artemeva, V., Fallah, S., ...
& Dincer, D. (2022). Four-dimensional hierarchical structure of love constructs in
a cross-cultural perspective. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 4(1),
1-13.
Karandashev V, Evans N.D., Zarubko E, Neto F, Evans M, Artemeva V, Morgan K.A.D.,
Feybesse C, Surmanidze L (2020). Physical Attraction Scale — Short Version: Cross-Cultural
Validation. Journal of Relationships Research 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1017/jrr.2020.17
Karandashev, V., Zarubko, E., Artemeva, V., Evans, M., Morgan, K. A. D., Neto, F.,
Feybesse, C., Surmanidze, L., & Purvis, J. (2020). Cross-Cultural Comparison of
Sensory Preferences in Romantic Attraction. Sexuality & Culture, 24(1), 23-53.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09628-0
Karandashev, V., & Evans, N. D. (2019). Quadrangular Love Theory and Scale: Validation
and Psychometric Investigation. Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences,
10(1), 1-35.
Karandashev, V. (2018). Panorama transculturel de l’amour (Love from a cross-cultural
perspective)/ Sciences Psy, a French quarterly magazine ( Accueil - www.sciences-psy.fr
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