The Expert Guide to Taking Control of Your Emotions

Ethan Kross is a world expert in the psychology of emotions, and he has identified a set of tools that can help us to tend our wellbeing.

Ever since he was a child, Ethan Kross has been “an observer of emotion” and the often counter-productive ways that we deal with difficult feelings. “It seemed as if we were all just stumbling along, occasionally finding an accidental or Band-Aid solution to help us manage our emotional lives. Sometimes our improvised tools helped. Sometimes they made things worse. It seemed so haphazard, isolating, and inefficient,” he says.

As a psychologist at the University of Michigan and director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory, Kross hopes to change this sorry state of affairs. In his new book Shift: How to Manage Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You, he aims to equip us all with a set of tools that will help us to navigate our ups and downs more constructively.

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