Harnessing People Around us to Feel Happier (Live with Ethan Kross)

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. Happiness Lab listeners. Today, you're in for a special treat. If you're a regular listener of this podcast, you've probably already gotten a chance to hear from my good friend, the psychologist Ethan Cross. In fact, Ethan just visited the show as part of our recent how-to season, where he gave us his top tips for hacking negative emotions. Lots of these ideas come from his new book, Shift, Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You.

But in that interview, we only got to scratch the surface of the cool work that Ethan does in his emotion and self-control lab at the University of Michigan. So to mark the publication of his new book, Ethan asked me to join him on stage for a live recording of this podcast at Chote Rosemary Hall, an independent school not too far from my hometown in New Haven, Connecticut. In front of an audience of teen students Ethan and I got to chat not about hacking our emotions, but about the effect that other people can have on our feelings, and the big effects we can have on other people too. I definitely learned a lot from this conversation, and I think you will too. Welcome to the Happiness Live Live, where we are from Chute Rosemary Hall. We have a fantastic audience of folks here.

For a really fun conversation with one of my favorite psychologists, Ethan Cross. So Ethan is a professor at the University of Michigan, both in the psychology department and at the Roth School of Business. He's the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Lab, and he's an expert on strategies we can use to control our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. As you might guess with an expertise this cool, Ethan's a sought after consultant and speaker. He's work with famous sпрофе basketball teams and he's even been hosted at the White House. All to help leaders and folks who need it regulate their feelings and emotions.

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