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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