Here’s
your chance to meet bestselling author Ethan Kross who reveals how to harness
the positive power of your constant inner voice in his national bestselling
book, Chatter. He will talk with
guest host Dana Black about how to use your typically critical inner voice to
instead combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen your
relationships with others. He’ll also talk about his upcoming book, Shift, that focuses on how to manage
your emotions.
Dr. Kross is an award-winning psychologist and the
director of University of Michigan’s Emotion and Self Control laboratory. In
his book Chatter, Ethan talks about
the constant, silent conversations we all have with ourselves. Interweaving
groundbreaking behavioral and brain research with real-world case studies -
from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her
double life as a spy - Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives,
work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting
self-talk - what he calls “chatter” - can tank our health, sink our moods,
strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.
But the good news, he says, is that we’re already equipped with the tools
we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden
in plain sight - in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies
we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with
our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces.
Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with
compelling stories, Chatter gives us
the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one
we have with ourselves.
Chatter
is a national bestseller and named as one of the best new books of the year by
the The Washington Post, BBC, USA Today, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral
Scientist, PopSugarKirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews.
Ethan
Kross, PhD, 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.
Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been
interviewed about his research on CBS
Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been
featured in The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He completed his BA at the
University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.
Doors open at 6 pm with
live music, a cash bar, and delicious cookies. The event begins at 7 and
includes a 15-minute Q and A and author signing.