Ethan Kross, Best-Selling Author and Professor

Today, my guest is Ethan Kross, 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.

Ethan is the author the National 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. Ethan attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University. Ethan moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.