Practical strategies for managing our emotional lives.
Dr. Ethan Kross, author of the international bestseller Chatter, is one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the Director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory.
In this episode we talk about:
- What an emotion actually is
- The myth that we should only experience positive emotions
- Why sometimes avoidance is a smart strategy
- The six emotional "shifters" we can use to regulate our emotions
- The role of our senses
- How to use mental time travel to shift perspective
- And the role of our surroundings, relationships, and culture
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