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Emotional Strategies and Regulation Tools

by Stamina

02-02-2021

"We’re human beings, people. All of us are incredible resilient and the human mind has this amazing facility for thinking flexibly about challenges that we face.”

In The Happiness Lab podcast, brought to you by Pushkin Industries, Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will forever alter the way you think about happiness.

In this episode “Coach Yourself Through a Crisis”, you’ll find an inspirational talk between Dr. Laurie Santos and Dr. Ethan Kross, along with great tips for dealing with the Covid era.

Dr. Laurie Santos is Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Dr. Santos is an expert on human cognition and the cognitive biases that impede better choices. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” teaches students how the science of psychology can provide important hints about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. It recently became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years, and has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds, and was named in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.”

Dr. Ethan Kross, Author, Scientist and Teacher, 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 studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions and relationships.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After earning his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University, Ethan completed a post-doctoral 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. Ethan’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. 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.