Douglas Mennin, a psychologist at CUNY Hunter College, discusses his research on anxiety and emotion in this interview from Yale's Experts in Emotion series, hosted by June Gruber. Mennin traces how he became interested in studying emotion, then spends the bulk of the conversation on the central findings of his work, including how people with anxiety relate to and regulate their emotional experiences. He closes by describing what he sees as promising directions for future research and offers advice for students considering a career studying emotion. The format is a straightforward, chaptered sit-down interview rather than a classroom lecture, but it covers real research content from a working scientist in the field, tracing a research program from its origins through its open questions.