We are pleased to announce that on November 14, 2022, the Center for Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy will be inviting Professor Jeanne L. Tsai (Stanford University) to hold a lecture titled “How Culture Influences Our Emotions (and Why It Matters)”.
“How Culture Influences Our Emotions (and Why It Matters)”
- Speaker: Jeanne L. Tsai (PhD., Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychology, Stanford University)
- Moderator: Yuri Miyamoto (PhD., Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
- Date and Time: Monday, November 14, 2022, 10:40-12:10 JST
- Venue: Room 306, Building 3, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
- Language: English
- Open to members of Waseda University and the general public. Free admission.
- Registration: Required. Please register from here.
Abstract:
Although most people want to feel good, people differ in the specific positive states they value and ideally want to feel (their “ideal affect”). In this talk, I will describe a series of studies using a variety of self-report, neuroimaging, and behavioral methods showing that: (1) how people want to feel differs from how they actually feel, (2) cultural factors shape how people want to feel even more than how they actually feel, and (3) these cultural differences in ideal affect predict what people choose, how they define health and well-being, and how they judge and treat other people. Finally, I will discuss the implications these findings have for understanding how culture shapes consumer preference, hiring, charitable giving, and other forms of resource sharing.
Speaker Biography:
Professor Jeanne L. Tsai
Jeanne L. Tsai is currently Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Culture and Emotion Lab, and the Yumi and Yasunori Kaneko Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. She received her B.A. in psychology from Stanford, her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley, and did her post-doctoral work at UCSF in minority mental health. Her research examines the cultural shaping of emotion and its implications for health, decision-making, person perception, and resource sharing in a variety of applied settings. Her work is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, and various interdisciplinary initiatives at Stanford. Jeanne is serving her second term as associate editor of Emotion. She is fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association Division 8, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. At Stanford, she has received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching twice, and the Asian American Activities Center Faculty Award. Her work has been described in various national news outlets including NPR, National Geographic Magazine, Psychology Today, World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post.
Professor Yuri Miyamoto
Yuri Miyamoto is a professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University. She received her BA and MA from Kyoto University and her PhD from the University of Michigan. She worked as an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the interplay between cultural contexts and psychological processes (a) by illuminating cultural differences in emotion and cognition and their health implications and (b) by elucidating multilevel influences of culture and social hierarchy on psychological processes. She is an associate editor for Social Psychological and Personality Science and has also served on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Emotion.
Organizers: Yoshikuni Ono, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics ([email protected])
Sponsored by the Center for Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy,
