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Jeanne L. Tsai is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes primarily in psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, general health professions, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics such as cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, face recognition and perception, behavioral health and interventions, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Recent publications by Jeanne L. Tsai include:

  • "The rise of affectivism", 2021, published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Social media users produce more affect that supports cultural values, but are more influenced by affect that violates cultural values.", 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Association between age and intellectual curiosity: the mediating roles of future time perspective and importance of curiosity", 2020, European Journal of Ageing
  • "Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms", 2023, Journal of Online Trust and Safety
  • "Why does passion matter more in individualistic cultures?", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Brian Knutson, Chenyan Jia, Hazel Rose Markus, Michael Ko, and Jeffrey T. Hancock.

Jeanne L. Tsai's publications have appeared in various academic venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as Emotion, Gothic.net, and arXiv (Cornell University), alongside single contributions to prominent outlets like Nature Human Behaviour and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Emotion and aging: experience, expression, and control.

    James J. Gross;Laura L. Carstensen;Monisha Pasupathi;Jeanne Tsai

  • Cultural variation in affect valuation.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Brian Knutson;Helene H. Fung

  • Ideal Affect: Cultural Causes and Behavioral Consequences:

    Jeanne L. Tsai

  • The Meaning of “Being Chinese” and “Being American” Variation among Chinese American Young Adults

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Yu-Wen Ying;Peter A. Lee

  • Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being

    Paul Ekman;Richard J. Davidson;Matthieu Ricard;B. Alan Wallace

  • Learning What Feelings to Desire: Socialization of Ideal Affect Through Children's Storybooks

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Jennifer Y. Louie;Eva E. Chen;Yukiko Uchida

  • Cultural models of shame and guilt.

    Ying Wong;Jeanne Tsai

  • Autonomic, subjective, and expressive responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese Americans and European Americans.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Robert W. Levenson;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Cultural Influences on Emotional Responding Chinese American and European American Dating Couples During Interpersonal Conflict

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Robert W. Levenson

  • Influence and adjustment goals: sources of cultural differences in ideal affect.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Felicity F. Miao;Emma Seppala;Helene H. Fung

  • The emotional integration of childhood experience: physiological, facial expressive, and self-reported emotional response during the adult attachment interview.

    Glenn I. Roisman;Jeanne L. Tsai;Kuan Hiong Sylvia Chiang

  • Emotional expression and physiology in European Americans and Hmong Americans.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Yulia Chentsova-Dutton;Liliana Freire-Bebeau;Diane E. Przymus

  • Good Feelings in Christianity and Buddhism: Religious Differences in Ideal Affect

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Felicity F. Miao;Emma Seppala

  • Cultural and temperamental variation in emotional response.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Robert W. Levenson;Kimberly McCoy

  • Self-focused attention and emotional reactivity: the role of culture.

    Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton;Jeanne L. Tsai

  • Cultural predictors of self-esteem: a study of Chinese American female and male young adults.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Yu-Wen Ying;Peter Allen Lee

  • CULTURAL ORIENTATION AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: PREDICTORS OF COHERENCE IN CHINESE AMERICAN YOUNG ADULTS

    Yu-Wen Ying;Peter A. Lee;Jeanne L. Tsai

  • Why and how we should study ethnic identity, acculturation, and cultural orientation.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Yulia Chentsova-Dutton;Ying Wong

  • Striving to Feel Good: Ideal Affect, Actual Affect, and Their Correspondence Across Adulthood

    Susanne Scheibe;Tammy English;Jeanne L. Tsai;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative: Implications for mixed affective experience in American and Chinese contexts

    Tamara Sims;Jeanne L. Tsai;Da Jiang;Yaheng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Helene H. Fung
Helene H. Fung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Brian Knutson
Brian Knutson Stanford University
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Robert W. Levenson
Robert W. Levenson University of California, Berkeley
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
James N. Butcher
James N. Butcher University of Minnesota
Susanne Scheibe
Susanne Scheibe University of Groningen
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Ricardo F. Muñoz
Ricardo F. Muñoz Palo Alto University
Monisha Pasupathi
Monisha Pasupathi University of Utah

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