Dr. Ethan Kross

Trying to address those two big picture issues is something that keeps us really busy and is something that is really fun, a fun way to spend your life.

Trying to address those two big picture issues is something that keeps us really busy and is something that is really fun, a fun way to spend your life.

It's a great question, and it's funny. I often, when I'm speaking about this topic to folks, I often ask people, hey, who here feels comfortable coming up to the front and just telling us what it means to have an emotion? What is an emotion? It's kind of wild.

It's a great question, and it's funny. I often, when I'm speaking about this topic to folks, I often ask people, hey, who here feels comfortable coming up to the front and just telling us what it means to have an emotion? What is an emotion? It's kind of wild.

It's a great question, and it's funny. I often, when I'm speaking about this topic to folks, I often ask people, hey, who here feels comfortable coming up to the front and just telling us what it means to have an emotion? What is an emotion? It's kind of wild.

We experience emotions, according to this one study that I cite in my book, about 90% of the time that we're awake, we're experiencing some type of emotional response. We are truly an emotional species. And yet if you ask people, as I often do in presentations or when I'm teaching, what's an emotion? People often just stop and they have trouble answering that question.

We experience emotions, according to this one study that I cite in my book, about 90% of the time that we're awake, we're experiencing some type of emotional response. We are truly an emotional species. And yet if you ask people, as I often do in presentations or when I'm teaching, what's an emotion? People often just stop and they have trouble answering that question.

We experience emotions, according to this one study that I cite in my book, about 90% of the time that we're awake, we're experiencing some type of emotional response. We are truly an emotional species. And yet if you ask people, as I often do in presentations or when I'm teaching, what's an emotion? People often just stop and they have trouble answering that question.

So let me pose it to you actually before I go give you my definition. What do you think an emotion is? And don't worry about being right or wrong.

So let me pose it to you actually before I go give you my definition. What do you think an emotion is? And don't worry about being right or wrong.

So let me pose it to you actually before I go give you my definition. What do you think an emotion is? And don't worry about being right or wrong.

So not bad, not bad. So I define emotions as responses we have to events in our lives that we deem meaningful, i.e. they capture our attention in some way. And these could be situations that happen to us as we're navigating the world outside or even situations we imagine in our minds. And when we encounter those circumstances, we're

So not bad, not bad. So I define emotions as responses we have to events in our lives that we deem meaningful, i.e. they capture our attention in some way. And these could be situations that happen to us as we're navigating the world outside or even situations we imagine in our minds. And when we encounter those circumstances, we're

So not bad, not bad. So I define emotions as responses we have to events in our lives that we deem meaningful, i.e. they capture our attention in some way. And these could be situations that happen to us as we're navigating the world outside or even situations we imagine in our minds. And when we encounter those circumstances, we're

It's almost like a software program that gets loaded up to help us manage that circumstance. And that software program has a few different pieces, a few different components. So emotions activate what we call a loosely coordinated set of responses. What do I mean by that? Well, when we experience emotion, there's often a physiological component.

It's almost like a software program that gets loaded up to help us manage that circumstance. And that software program has a few different pieces, a few different components. So emotions activate what we call a loosely coordinated set of responses. What do I mean by that? Well, when we experience emotion, there's often a physiological component.

It's almost like a software program that gets loaded up to help us manage that circumstance. And that software program has a few different pieces, a few different components. So emotions activate what we call a loosely coordinated set of responses. What do I mean by that? Well, when we experience emotion, there's often a physiological component.

So if I experience a little bit of anxiety, I often feel that in my stomach. It kind of feels like the stomach is ringing. I've got to go to the toilet right away, depending on how potent a response that is that predicts the strength of that impulse. Yeah. Our emotions are also capturing our cognition, how we're thinking about our circumstances.

So if I experience a little bit of anxiety, I often feel that in my stomach. It kind of feels like the stomach is ringing. I've got to go to the toilet right away, depending on how potent a response that is that predicts the strength of that impulse. Yeah. Our emotions are also capturing our cognition, how we're thinking about our circumstances.

So if I experience a little bit of anxiety, I often feel that in my stomach. It kind of feels like the stomach is ringing. I've got to go to the toilet right away, depending on how potent a response that is that predicts the strength of that impulse. Yeah. Our emotions are also capturing our cognition, how we're thinking about our circumstances.