C HATTER is scheduled to be translated into over 40 languages. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time.Įthan is the author the International Bestseller CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It, which was chosen as one of the best new books of the year by the Washington Post, CNN and USA Today and the Winning Winter 2021 selection for Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain and Dan Pink’s Next Big Idea Book Club. He has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America and NPR’s Morning Edition. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self-Control Lab.Įthan’s research has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed journals. After earning his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University, Ethan completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the neural systems that support self-control.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He uses a variety of tools (e.g., behavioral, diary, physiological, neuroscience, social media) to address these issues and focuses on adult, child and clinical populations.Įthan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His research examines how people can control their thoughts, feelings and behaviors to improve their lives. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studiesfrom a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spyKross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He is the director of the Emotion & Self-Control Lab. Brilliantly argued and expertly researched, Chatter will explain how the conversations we have with ourselves shape our lives, and will give you the power to change them.Ethan Kross is a Professor in the University of Michigan’s Psychology Department and Ross School of Business. Ethan Kross is a Professor in the University of Michigan’s Psychology Department and Ross School of Business. Then he reveals the tools you need to harness your own voice so that you can be happier, healthier and more productive. In Chatter, Kross interweaves cutting-edge science with real-world case studies to explain how these inner conversations shape our work and relationships. How can we take back control? This is the question award-winning psychologist Ethan Kross set out to answer twenty years ago when he began an audacious mission - to study the conversations we have with ourselves. These silent conversations are so powerful they can sink our mood, trip us up and even impact our health. Except sometimes, this voice leads us down a rabbit hole of negative self-talk and endless rumination. We tune into its endless chatter to look for guidance, ideas and wisdom.

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