Ethan F. Kross conducts research on a number of important topics in social psychology, including emotion and emotion-regulation, affective and social neuroscience, self and self-regulation, and judgment and decision-making. His scholarship is both novel and integrative, cutting across typical disciplinary boundaries to examine such issues as self-control and emotion using techniques from a broad methodological toolbox, studying varied populations across the lifespan, and using varied levels of analysis. He has explored the pain of heartbreak and social rejection, the role of social media in subjective well-being, differential neural patterns of self-control, and how individuals make meaning out of negative experiences.
Kross’s work has relevance to clinical and developmental contexts, to behavioral medicine and education, and to policy more broadly. By highlighting the value of social psychology across many different arenas, he has successfully taken social psychology into prominence in science and beyond. His work has been cited in hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and television pieces worldwide, and featured as a “choice article” in Science. Kross was also an invited participant at the 2013 White House on Psychological Science and Behavioral Economics in the Service of of Public Policy.
Kross is an assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Michigan. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in social and affective neuroscience at Columbia University in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in social psychology in 2007 from Columbia University.
