Dr. Ethan Cross

We lean into those emotions even further by listening to ballads, love ballads, if you will. Vision, art, attractiveness, smell. Let's talk about smell for a second. Smell is a really interesting one. scent elicits emotions. So I remember when my daughters were younger, on vacation, we'd go to a hotel and inevitably the hotel would smell really wonderful in the lobby.

We lean into those emotions even further by listening to ballads, love ballads, if you will. Vision, art, attractiveness, smell. Let's talk about smell for a second. Smell is a really interesting one. scent elicits emotions. So I remember when my daughters were younger, on vacation, we'd go to a hotel and inevitably the hotel would smell really wonderful in the lobby.

And I remember seeing on their face, there's just this expression of blissfulness. And they'd go, daddy, it smells so good in here. I love this place. And so what was happening there is those hotels were piping sense through their ventilation systems to arouse a kind of positive emotional response among the guests and visitors of the hotel. So these are shifters.

And I remember seeing on their face, there's just this expression of blissfulness. And they'd go, daddy, it smells so good in here. I love this place. And so what was happening there is those hotels were piping sense through their ventilation systems to arouse a kind of positive emotional response among the guests and visitors of the hotel. So these are shifters.

And I remember seeing on their face, there's just this expression of blissfulness. And they'd go, daddy, it smells so good in here. I love this place. And so what was happening there is those hotels were piping sense through their ventilation systems to arouse a kind of positive emotional response among the guests and visitors of the hotel. So these are shifters.

These are levers that you can pull, and they're really, really reliable movers of emotion. I will do an exercise when I'm teaching about this topic in my classes where I will have people rate how they're feeling throughout the class. I'll get a baseline reading of how they're feeling after I've taught for 20 or 30 minutes. And then I'll give the first sensory experience.

These are levers that you can pull, and they're really, really reliable movers of emotion. I will do an exercise when I'm teaching about this topic in my classes where I will have people rate how they're feeling throughout the class. I'll get a baseline reading of how they're feeling after I've taught for 20 or 30 minutes. And then I'll give the first sensory experience.

These are levers that you can pull, and they're really, really reliable movers of emotion. I will do an exercise when I'm teaching about this topic in my classes where I will have people rate how they're feeling throughout the class. I'll get a baseline reading of how they're feeling after I've taught for 20 or 30 minutes. And then I'll give the first sensory experience.

Unbeknownst to them, I'll have pizza delivered into the class and I'll ask them to just take a bite of the pizza and taste it. And then I'll have them rate their emotions again. And you see this ginormous improvement in how they're feeling, right? They're almost at ceiling on the scale. Then I'll put on a scene from a Pixar movie where a character falls in love and then

Unbeknownst to them, I'll have pizza delivered into the class and I'll ask them to just take a bite of the pizza and taste it. And then I'll have them rate their emotions again. And you see this ginormous improvement in how they're feeling, right? They're almost at ceiling on the scale. Then I'll put on a scene from a Pixar movie where a character falls in love and then

Unbeknownst to them, I'll have pizza delivered into the class and I'll ask them to just take a bite of the pizza and taste it. And then I'll have them rate their emotions again. And you see this ginormous improvement in how they're feeling, right? They're almost at ceiling on the scale. Then I'll put on a scene from a Pixar movie where a character falls in love and then

and then gets old and their wife dies. And then I have them rate their emotions again. And you see the emotions go down. Then I give them one final experience. I do a little bit more lecturing. Then I play the fight song for the University of Michigan, which is our kind of rallying cry.

and then gets old and their wife dies. And then I have them rate their emotions again. And you see the emotions go down. Then I give them one final experience. I do a little bit more lecturing. Then I play the fight song for the University of Michigan, which is our kind of rallying cry.

and then gets old and their wife dies. And then I have them rate their emotions again. And you see the emotions go down. Then I give them one final experience. I do a little bit more lecturing. Then I play the fight song for the University of Michigan, which is our kind of rallying cry.

And this is my favorite moment in the class because I play this song and then I look around and I see students who have never uttered a word in class. Their eyes are closed. They start bopping their head just like Danny did in the car that day. And then they start like getting even more aggressive with the head bopping.

And this is my favorite moment in the class because I play this song and then I look around and I see students who have never uttered a word in class. Their eyes are closed. They start bopping their head just like Danny did in the car that day. And then they start like getting even more aggressive with the head bopping.

And this is my favorite moment in the class because I play this song and then I look around and I see students who have never uttered a word in class. Their eyes are closed. They start bopping their head just like Danny did in the car that day. And then they start like getting even more aggressive with the head bopping.

Some are singing along and then they rate their emotions again, their positive emotions, and they're back up to where the pizza was. So I'm essentially triggering different levels of positive and negative emotion like a symphony orchestra conductor.

Some are singing along and then they rate their emotions again, their positive emotions, and they're back up to where the pizza was. So I'm essentially triggering different levels of positive and negative emotion like a symphony orchestra conductor.

Some are singing along and then they rate their emotions again, their positive emotions, and they're back up to where the pizza was. So I'm essentially triggering different levels of positive and negative emotion like a symphony orchestra conductor.