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PSYCH 28N: The Cultural Shaping of Emotion
Cross listed: CSRE 28N
Course Description
This seminar examines how our cultural ideas and practices shape our conceptions, perceptions, and experiences of emotion. We will read and discuss empirical research and case study anthropology, sociology, and medicine. Course requirements include weekly reading and thought papers, weekly discussion, and a final research project and presentation.
Meet the Instructor: Jeanne Tsai
Jeanne Tsai is a professor of psychology and director of the Stanford Culture and Emotion Lab. She received her B.A. in psychology at Stanford and then clinical psychology at UC-Berkeley. Her research examines how culture shapes various emotional processes, and what implications these relations health and illness.
