Stanford psychologist Jeanne Tsai talks with June Gruber (Yale) about how culture shapes emotional experience and expression. Tsai traces her path into the field before laying out core findings from her research program, which compares how different cultures value and display particular emotional states, including her work on the differences between East Asian and Western ideals of desirable feelings such as calm versus excitement. The interview, structured as a chaptered conversation, moves from her early influences through roughly fourteen minutes of discussion on her central discoveries, then turns to where she expects the science of emotion to head next. It closes with her practical advice for students who want to enter emotion research. The format is a straightforward one-on-one interview filmed for Yale's Experts in Emotion series, with no slides, built around Tsai's own account of her findings rather than a formal lecture structure.