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Hey, Happiness Lab listeners. Today, you're in for a special treat. If you're a regular

listener of this podcast, you've probably already gotten a chance to hear from

my good friend, the psychologist Ethan Cross. In fact, Ethan just visited the show as part of our recent

how-to season, where he gave us his top tips for hacking negative emotions. Lots of these ideas

come from his new book, Shift, managing your emotions so they don't manage you. But in that interview,

we only got to scratch the

surface of the cool work that Ethan does in his emotion and self-control lab at the University

of Michigan. So to mark the publication of his new book, Ethan asked me to join him on stage

for a live recording of this podcast at Choate Rosemary Hall, an independent school not too far from

my hometown at New Haven, Connecticut.

In front of an audience of teen students, Ethan and I got to chat not about hacking our emotions,

but about the effect that other people can have on our feelings, and the big effects we can have on other people, too.

I definitely learned a lot from this conversation, and I think you will too.

Welcome to the Happiness Lab Live, where we are coming in from Chote Rosemary Hall.

We have a fantastic audience of folks here for a really fun conversation with one of my favorite psychologist, Ethan Cross.

So Ethan is a professor at the University of Michigan, both in the psychology department

and at the Roth School of Business.

He's the director of the emotion and self-control lab.

He's an expert on strategies we can use to control our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

As you might guess with an expertise, the school, Ethan's a sought-after consultant

and speaker.

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