Dr. Ethan Kross
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968 appearances
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6 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
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emotional groups at the same time that are having emotions because of one another. And the approach that she has found to be very successful in her career as a mediator is to ask folks, to train them, not to enter conversations to try to change each other's minds, but to enter those conversations with
a state of humility and curiosity and genuine interest in first and foremost trying to just understand the other group's position. I haven't done that myself, but it strikes me as a pretty viable approach to a first step to having conversations about difficult issues. And it makes me think about how in the lab we often define wisdom. So wisdom is...
this concept of it indexes how well you are able to deal with social situations involving uncertainty. Like we don't know how these social situations are gonna play out and wise individuals are skillful in navigating those circumstances. How do you define wisdom? What are its features?
Well, a few of its core features are humility, recognizing that I don't know everything, a commitment to perspective taking, putting myself in the other person's shoes,
um dialecticism recognizing that the world is constantly in flux and circumstances are changing and we need to be aware of that and then also a general orientation towards the social good like doing good in the world and it strikes me that entering these difficult situations with that kind of mindset is potentially productive for um for bridging divides i love that and um
Great. And presumably it's available for pre-sale now or soon? Yeah, it's available. And it is essentially designed – it is written – to kind of just open the book on what emotions are, what we often get wrong about them, and what are the tools that we have to rein them in.
And my hope is that it addresses this big problem that I think we've been facing for a while, which is how to wrangle these emotions that sometimes get the best of us.
Well, thanks for having me. It was an incredible conversation. So I appreciate it. I feel the same way. Thank you so much.
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