
Michael Bailey on Sex and Emotion
Michael Bailey, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, sits for an interview in Yale's Experts in Emotion series, hosted by June Gruber. Bailey traces how he came to study emotion and spends the bulk of the conversation, from roughly minute two to minute sixteen, walking through the central findings of his research on sex differences in emotional experience and expression. He closes by speculating on where the field is headed next and offering advice to students considering research careers in emotion science. The format is a straightforward sit-down interview, structured by chapter markers covering his background, his core discoveries, future directions, and career advice, with no slides or visual aids beyond Bailey speaking directly to camera. It is a compact, focused conversation aimed at giving newcomers a sense of both the research itself and the person behind it.