Professor Jeanne L. Tsai
Jeanne L. Tsai is currently 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. She received her B.A. in psychology from Stanford and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley, and she completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in minority mental health at UC San Francisco. Her research examines the cultural shaping of emotion and its implications for health and well-being, decision-making, person perception, resource sharing, and communication, as well as applications to public health and climate action. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, and Stanford University. She has served as associate editor of Emotion twice. 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. In 2025, she was awarded the Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Psychology Award by the Society of Personality and 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 Psychology Today, World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post, and National Geographic.
Professor Matthew Hornsey
Prof. Matthew Hornsey has published over 200 papers, most of which examine the psychology of influence and behaviour change. Throughout his career he has worked to develop models equipped to understand the logic behind supposedly “irrational” behaviour, and used them to facilitate positive social change. His most recent work focuses on understanding (and reducing) people’s motivations to reject scientific consensus, including the psychology of conspiracy theories, vaccination hesitancy, and climate inaction. Supported by an ARC Laureate Fellowship, Prof. Hornsey is currently leading the Net Zero Observatory at the University of Queensland, a multi-disciplinary group of academics and practitioners who design strategies to accelerate industry action and community support for rapid decarbonisation.