Ethan Kross

Ethan Kross, PhD, is one of the world's leading authorities on the inner voice and the science of managing emotions. An award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and its Ross School of Business, he directs the Emotion & Self-Control Laboratory and is co-founder and Executive Director of the University of Michigan Institute for Mental Fitness. He also serves as faculty lead for the Research Innovation Core at the Eisenberg Family Depression Center. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ethan earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) and his PhD in Psychology at Columbia University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience. He joined the University of Michigan in 2008. His research draws on social, personality, clinical, developmental, and neuroscience approaches, and 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. Ethan is the two-time international bestselling author of Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You and Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and two daughters.

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