EP 1034B - Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters and How to Harness It

Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head that powerfully influences how we live our lives. In this time of instability and skyrocketing anxiety, it’s more important than ever to know how to manage this voice to rein in our worrying so it's helpful but not debilitating.

In his profound and practical book, CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross, one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mindexplores the silent conversations we have with ourselves and how we can move from anxiety to confidence by harnessing our inner voice.

Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies—from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy—Kross explains why our attempts to control the conversations we have with ourselves succeed or fail and how these inner monologues can shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls “chatter”—can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.


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EP 1034B - Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters and How to Harness It
Featuring:
Ethan Kross

Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. As an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and Ross School of Business, Kross studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions, and relationships., Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, releasing on January 26th, 2021, is his first book.

Kross’s 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, 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.

After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, Ethan Kross earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the neural systems that support self-control. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Kross lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and two daughters.

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