Ethan Kross
Psychology Professor | Emotion Regulation & Self-Talk
Most recently at TED in 2025.
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Ethan Kross is a leading psychological scientist specializing in emotion regulation and self-talk. As Director of the Emotion & Self Control Lab at the University of Michigan, he integrates insights from social, personality, clinical, developmental, and neuroscience research.
Kross has contributed to White House policy and been featured on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and NPR. He is the author of the national bestseller 'Chatter', which Amazon named a best nonfiction book of 2021, and 'Shift', offering audiences science-backed strategies for managing emotions and enhancing performance.
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Do You Talk to Yourself? Here’s How to Harness Your Inner Voice
Your inner voice is a powerful tool for self-reflection and planning, but it can also trap you in negative thought loops - “chatter,” as psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross calls it. He shares tips for quieting the less helpful aspects of the voice inside your head as well as how to harness chatter to overcome doubt, enhance your focus and transform your well-being. (Recorded at TED@BCG on September 12, 2024) If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: https://ted.com/membership Follow TED! X: https://twitter.com/TEDTalks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ted Facebook: https://facebook.com/TED LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ted-conferences TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tedtoks The TED Talks channel features talks, performances and original series from the world's leading thinkers and doers. Subscribe to our channel for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design - plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit https://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Watch more: https://go.ted.com/ethankross https://youtu.be/xb0nLpdWttA TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (or the CC BY - NC - ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy. For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com #TED #TEDTalks #psychology
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