Jeanne Tsai

Dr. Jeanne L. Tsai is the Dunlevie Family Professor and a professor of psychology at Stanford University. She co-founded the Asian American Research Center at Stanford in 2024.

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Education

She earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Stanford University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.

Research Contributions

Affect Valuation Theory (AVT)

Dr. Jeanne Tsai formulated Affect Valuation Theory how people actually feel differs from how they ideally want to feel cultural factors shape ideal affect more than actual affect; and 3) people try to reduce the discrepancy between their actual and ideal affect by engaging in specific mood-producing behaviors that help them achieve their ideal affect.