Kevin Ochsner, a psychologist at Columbia University, discusses his research on emotion regulation and the brain in this interview from Yale's Experts in Emotion series, directed by June Gruber. Ochsner traces how he became interested in studying emotion, then walks through the central discoveries of his research program, which uses neuroimaging to examine how people consciously reappraise and control their emotional responses. He speaks for roughly twenty minutes on these core findings before turning to where he sees the field heading next. The interview closes with practical advice for students hoping to enter emotion research. The format is a straightforward sit-down conversation with chapter markers, aimed at giving viewers a sense of both the science and the scientist's path into it, rather than a formal classroom lecture.