This ambitious volume integrates findings from various disciplines in a comprehensive description of the modern research on love and provides a systematic review of love experience and expression from cross-cultural perspective. It explores numerous interdisciplinary topics, bringing together research in biological and social sciences to explore love, probing the cross-cultural similarities and differences in the feelings, thoughts, and expressions of love. The book’s scope, which includes a review of major theories and key research instruments, provides a comprehensive background for any reader interested in developing an enlightened understanding of the cultural diversity in the concepts, experience, and expression of love. • How do people in different cultures conceptualize love? • How similar and different are the experiences and expressions of love across cultures? • What are the cultural factors affecting the experience and expression of love? • Cross-cultural understanding of love as passion, joy, commitment, union, respect, submission, intimacy, dependency, and more. • A review of the past and looking into the future of cross-cultural love research.