Ethan Kross
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
United States
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Phone: (734) 647-6785
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The overarching goal of my research is to understand the factors that enable people to adaptively regulate impulses and emotions that undermine their goals and compromise their health.In this vein, my research to date has focused on attempting to resolve a key paradox in the coping literature. On the one hand, substantial evidence suggests that in order to adaptively “work through” negative experiences it is helpful to analyze and understand one’s feelings. On the other hand, people’s attempts to do this are often counterproductive leading to rumination and/or avoidance. My research addresses this paradox by taking an integrative approach, using measures and methods at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, physiological, neuroscience-fMRI) to shed light on the mechanisms that distinguish adaptive and maladaptive forms of emotional processing among diverse populations (e.g., normal healthy adults, clinical populations, children), and examine how knowledge of such basic mechanisms can be used to facilitate coping in everyday life.
 Journal Articles:
- Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (in press). From a distance: Implications of spontaneous self-distancing for adaptive self-reflection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
 Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2008). Enhancing the pace of recovery: Self-distanced analysis of negative experiences reduces blood pressure reactivity. Psychological Science, 19, 229-231.
- Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2009). Asking "why" from a distance facilitates emotional processing: A reanalysis of Wimalaweera and Moulds (2008). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 88-92.
- Grossmann, I., & Kross, E. (in press). The impact of culture on adaptive vs. maladaptive self-reflection. Psychological Science.
- Kober, H., Kross, E., Hart, C. L., Mischel, W., & Ochsner, K. N. (2009). Regulation of craving by cognitive strategies in cigarette smokers. Drugs and Alcohol Dependence.
- Kross, E. (2009). When the self becomes other: Toward an integrative understanding of the processes distinguishing adaptive self-reflection from rumination. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1167, 35-40.
- Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2009). Boundary conditions and buffering effects: Does depressive symptomology moderate the effectiveness of self-distancing for facilitating adaptive emotional analysis? Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 923-927.
- Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2008). Facilitating adaptive emotional analysis: Distinguishing distanced-analysis of depressive experiences from immersed-analysis and distraction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 924-938.
- Kross, E., Ayduk, O., & Mischel, W. (2005). When asking "why" does not hurt: Distinguishing rumination from reflective processing of negative emotions. Psychological Science, 16, 709-715.
- Kross, E., Davidson, M., Weber, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2009). Coping with emotions past: The neural bases of regulating affect associated with negative autobiographical memories. Biological Psychiatry, 65, 361-366.
- Kross, E., Egner, T., Downey, G., Ochsner, K., & Hirsch, J. (2007). Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 945-956.
Other Publications:
- Kross, E., & Clasen, P. (2008). Neural processes in rejection sensitivity: Differences in emotional appraisal or control? In F. Erkman (Ed.), Interpersonal acceptance and rejection.
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