Georgetown University psychologist Yulia Chentsova Dutton sits down with Yale's June Gruber for this installment of the Experts in Emotion series to discuss how culture shapes emotional experience. Chentsova Dutton traces her path into the field before laying out the core findings from her research, which compares how different cultural groups understand, express, and regulate feelings like happiness and distress, challenging assumptions that emotional responses are universal. She spends the bulk of the roughly twenty-minute conversation walking through these central discoveries before turning to what she sees as promising open questions for the next generation of researchers. The interview closes with her practical advice for students hoping to enter emotion research. The format is conversational rather than a formal lecture, but the middle section functions as a compact research talk, grounded in specific studies from her lab on cross-cultural variation in emotional life.