Chatter: A Conversation With Ethan Kross

Parenting for the Future

“The ability to introspect to work through problems. This is one of the reasons we are so successful as a species. The ability to introspect is how we learn from our problems and plan for the future is what allows us in part to build spaceships that literally land SUVs nowadays on other planets like Mars. but, on the other hand, people struggle enormously with introspection to the point that they become overly angry, anxious, and depressed. And so we've got this remarkable tool. but it's really unwieldy. Sometimes it helps us. Sometimes it hurts us."

• Professor, University of Michigan's Psychology Department and Russ school of Business
• Founder and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
• Education/Degree:
• Ph.D. Columbia University
• BA University of Pennsylvania