Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast

Ethan Kross is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan's top-ranked social psychology programme. He's an award-winning scientist and teacher who studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions, and relationships. And his research has been published in academic journals and featured in the New York Times, the Economist and the New Yorker, to name just a few. In this week’s episode, we explore how we can avoid being sucked into negativity vortex by using self-distancing and other simple hacks to improve our self-regulation at work. Connect with Ethan Kross:  Emotion & Self-Control Lab at The University Of Michigan You’ll Learn: [02:03] - Ethan outlines the consequences of becoming stuck in a negativity vortex at work. [03:38] - Ethan explains how the practice of self-distancing can help us to avoid the negativity vortex. [05:14] - Ethan provides examples of how the language we use can help us to self-distance during moments of ruminati