
Ann Kring on Schizophrenia and Emotion
Psychologist Ann Kring of UC Berkeley talks with June Gruber of Yale in this installment of Yale's Experts in Emotion series. Kring describes how she came to study emotion and lays out the central findings from her research on schizophrenia, including work on blunted emotional expression despite intact or even heightened subjective emotional experience in people with the disorder. She discusses what first drew her to the topic, walks through the core discoveries shaping the field, and offers her view on where the most promising future research lies. The interview closes with her advice for students and early researchers interested in entering the study of emotion. Presented as a structured conversation with chapter markers, it runs under twenty minutes and functions as a compact overview of one researcher's career-long inquiry into the gap between what people with schizophrenia feel and what they show.