Events

Shift: Managing Your Emotions - So They Don't Manage You

Book Talk by Ethan Kross, Ph.D. 

Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful breakup, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being “good” or “bad,” emotions are information. When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices. But how do we make our emotions work for us rather than against us?

Join us for this fireside chat hosted by Monica Worline, where Dr. Ethan Kross, acclaimed psychologist and author of Shift: Managing Your Emotions – So They Don’t Manage You, will provide a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don’t take over our lives. Through science and storytelling, Kross will spotlight a wide array of tools that we already have access to – in our bodies and minds, our relationships with other people, and the cultures and physical spaces we inhabit – and show us how to harness them to be healthier and more successful. He’ll reveal how you can shift the power back into your hands so you control your emotions without them controlling you – and help others do the same.

Book signing with Ethan Kross immediately following book talk. Limited supply of free books available! 

About Ethan Kross

Ethan Kross, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and the Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He has participated in policy discussions at the White House and has been interviewed about his work on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and NPR’sMorning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New England Journal of Medicine and Science.

No registration is required. 

This free event is co-sponsored by the Eisenberg Family Depression Center, the University of Michigan Department of Psychology, and the University of Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations.