Margaret Clark, a psychologist at Yale University, sits down with Yale's June Gruber for this installment of the Experts in Emotion series. Clark traces her path into emotion research and lays out the central findings from her work on how emotions function within close relationships, including what feelings signal about relational needs and support. She spends the bulk of the interview, running from roughly the two-minute mark to nearly eighteen minutes, walking through these core themes before turning to where she thinks the field is headed next. The conversation closes with her advice for students or researchers looking to enter the study of emotion. The format is a structured interview with chapter markers rather than a formal classroom lecture, but the content stays focused on Clark's actual research program on emotion and interpersonal relationships throughout.