Jeanne Tsai

At CASBS, Jeanne Tsai will work on a book synthesizing decades of research in cultural psychology from her lab and others showing how people’s lives are shaped by cultural ideals regarding self and emotion, how these cultural differences can lead to significant domestic and international misunderstandings, and how policy and decision makers can leverage these cultural ideals to broaden solutions to complex problems confronting the world, including future pandemics, climate change, and emerging technologies. She will also convene a small conference focused on these issues.

Tsai is the Dunlevie Family Professor and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Culture and Emotion Lab, co-founding director of the Asian American Research Center at Stanford (AARCS), and the Yumi and Yasunori Kaneko Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Her research examines the cultural shaping of emotion and its implications for health and well-being, decision-making, person perception, and communication on social media, with an emphasis on U.S. and East Asian comparisons. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, and various units at Stanford University. For more information, please visit https://culture-emotion-lab.stanford.edu/.