Psychologist Jamil Zaki of Stanford University sits down with Yale's Experts in Emotion series, hosted by June Gruber, to discuss his research on empathy. Zaki explains what drew him to studying emotion, then spends the bulk of the interview walking through the central findings of his work, including how empathy can be strengthened rather than treated as a fixed trait. He closes by describing what he sees as the most promising open questions in the field and offers advice for students who want to get involved in emotion research. The format is a structured interview rather than a classroom lecture, organized into clear chapters covering his background, his core discoveries, future directions, and career guidance. At under twenty minutes, it functions as a concise research briefing from one of the field's active investigators rather than a comprehensive course.