Psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of UCLA discusses her research on the neural overlap between physical and social pain, interviewed by June Gruber of Yale as part of the Experts in Emotion series. Eisenberger explains what drew her to studying emotion and walks through the central findings of her work, including how experiences like social rejection can activate brain regions also tied to physical injury. She then looks ahead to what she considers the most promising open questions in the field before closing with practical advice for students hoping to enter emotion research. The format is a structured one-on-one interview rather than a classroom lecture, but the middle stretch is given over almost entirely to Eisenberger tracing the arc of her research program and its key discoveries. Runtime is short and the pace brisk, but the content is specific and drawn directly from her published work on rejection, pain, and reward.