It is intended the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competences at the level of the analysis of the relationship between emotion, affect and culture, and more specifically:

• Present the concepts of emotion, affect and culture, as well as their classification and associated variables;
• Introduce students to the research conducted in the field of Cultural Psychology and Emotion, as well as to the theoretical models that explain the relationship between emotion and culture;
• Examine the growing evidence that emotions are influenced and shaped through social, cultural, and linguistic processes
• Understand the relationship between emotion, language, and cognition, as well as the contributions of cognitive science to culture and emotion;
• Understand the interrelationship between emotion and culture through empirical studies concerning their mutual influence;
• Understand the relationship between culture, emotion and psychopathology;
• Develop skills of theoretical analysis of the cultural modeling of emotion.