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How Culture Influences Our Emotions (and Why It Matters)

Watch as Professor Tsai, '91, shares about how culture influences our feelings, particularly the emotions we want to feel, and how these cultural differences affect how we perceive and treat others in an increasingly multicultural world. 

About Professor Jeanne Tsai, ’91

Jeanne Tsai, '91, is a professor of psychology and the director of Stanford's Culture and Emotion Lab. Her research examines how culture shapes affective processes and the effects these cultural differences have on decision-making, how people think about health and illness, and how they perceive others in an increasingly multicultural world.

This event was sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association.

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