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

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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/.