Emotion as a Psychological State - eScholarship

Professor Robert Levenson received his bachelors in psychologyfrom Georgetown University and subsequently received his masters and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1974. He has been a professor at Cal since 1986 and has published on the physiological, cultural, and psyhiological components of emotion and marriage. He is the director of the Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab and sat down with Berkeley Scientific Journal to discuss his research on emotions, specifically how they can affect our daily lives and how they are affected by neurodegenerative disorders.