37: Psychologist Ethan Kross: How to Get Rid of the Voice in Your Head and Why it Matters

Ethan Kross Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading experts on
controlling the conscious mind. As an award-winning professor in
the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and
Ross School of Business, Ethan utilizes and implements his research
on how the conversations people have with themselves impacts their
health, performance, decisions, and relationships, inspiring him to
write his first-ever book, “Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It
Matters, and How to Harness It”. Ethan’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. He has participated in policy discussion at
the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good
Morning America, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering 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. As an alumnus of the University of
Pennsylvania as magna cum laude, Ethan earned his Ph.D. in
Psychology from Columbia University and completed a post-doctoral
fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the
neural systems that support self-control. He moved to the
University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion &
Self Control Laboratory. If you’re interested in a fascinating
conversation that will truly help you harness your conscious mind
to live a healthier more satisfying and productive life, you’ll
enjoy this episode and Ethan Kross’s book, Chatter.
https://www.ethankross.com/chatter/.