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James J. Gross is the Ernest R. Hilgard Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, where he also serves as Professor of Psychology by courtesy appointment in Philosophy. He directs the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory and the Stanford Center for Affective Science. Gross earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology from Yale University in 1987, served as a Graduate Visiting Student at Linacre College, Oxford University in 1988, and received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. He joined the Stanford University Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in 1994, advancing to Associate Professor in 2000 and Full Professor in 2008.

Gross's research focuses on emotion regulation, including the development of the process model of emotion regulation, which delineates how individuals select emotions, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. His interests encompass neural mechanisms, cognitive reappraisal, suppression, cultural contexts, applications to social anxiety, psychopathology, aging, intergroup conflict, and decision-making. With over 650 publications cited more than 280,000 times, key works include the Handbook of Emotion Regulation (Guilford Press, 2007; second edition, 2014) and 'The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review' (Review of General Psychology, 1998). Gross received the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for developing the field of emotion regulation, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007, the Stanford Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, multiple postdoctoral mentoring awards, and research awards from the American Psychological Association, Society for Psychophysiological Research, and Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary doctorates from UC Louvain, Tilburg University, and the Education University of Hong Kong. As co-founding President of the Society for Affective Science and Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Affective Science, Gross has profoundly shaped affective science in Psychology.