CPO Event: Book Talk (Shift: Managing Your Emotions - So They Don't Manage You) with Ethan Kross
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
This Event is Hosted by the Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan
Book Talk | Shift: Managing Your Emotions - So They Don't Manage You
Ethan Kross
Professor of Psychology and Management & Organizations
University of Michigan
About the talk: Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, 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.
About Kross: Ethan Kross, PhD, 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 its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He has participated in policy discussion 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 New England Journal of Medicine and Science.
A book signing with Ethan Kross will immediately following the book talk event.
Host: Monica Worline, Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations
Event Co-Sponsors: Eisenberg Family Depression Center, University of Michigan, and LSA Department of Psychology.