Emotions are ancient, but your method for managing them doesn’t have to be. Psychologist and author Ethan Kross shares how modern science has given us surprising tools to manage our emotional reactions. From talking to yourself in the third person to building an ‘advisory board,’ Kross explains how small shifts in your regulation process can make a big impact on not just your own life, but on society as a whole.
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About Ethan Kross:
Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions and relationships.
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Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life’s biggest questions, and that’s why they’re the questions occupying the world’s brightest minds.
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