Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top ranked psychology department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how people can control their emotions to improve their health, performance, decisions, and relationships.

Kross’ first book, the national bestseller Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It, was chosen as one of the best new books of the year by the Washington Post, CNN and USA Today and was the Winning Winter 2021 selection for Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain and Dan Pink’s Next Big Idea Book Club. Chatter has been translated into 40 languages.

Kross was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After earning his Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University, Kross completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about how the brain supports emotion regulation. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.

Kross’ research has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed journals. He has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and TIME.

Kross lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and two daughters.