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"I wish I had known years ago about... Barbara Fredrickson... In particular her theory that accumulating 'micro-moments of positivity, ' like my daily interaction with children, can, over time, result in greater overall well-being... In her newest book, Love 2.0, Dr. Fredrickson reports that 'shared positivity--having two people caught up in the same emotion--may have even a greater impact on health than something positive experienced by oneself....' The research that Dr. Fredrickson and others have done demonstrates that the extent to which we can generate positive emotions from even everyday activities can determine who flourishes and who doesn't. More than a sudden bonanza of good fortune, repeated brief moments of positive feelings can provide a buffer against stress and depression and foster both physical and mental health."--Jane Brody, The New York Times We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives. Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments of connection between people--even strangers. She demonstrates that our capacity for experiencing love can be measured and strengthened in ways that improve our health and longevity. Finally, she introduces us to informal and formal practices to unlock love in our lives, generate compassion, and even self-soothe. Rare in its scope and ambitious in its message, Love 2.0 will reinvent how you look at and experience our most powerful emotion.

Psychologist Barbara L. Fredrickson is widely credited with providing some of the strongest empirical evidence that positive emotions—as subtle and fleeting as they are—drive human resilience, build enduring personal resources, and create the passion-fueled habits that define healthy lifestyles. Her work also demonstrates why certain moments of positive emotional uplift matter more than others, illuminating the very foundations of meaning, transcendence, and love. Positive Emotions presents Fredrickson's groundbreaking research, tracing the arc of her career across five successive scientific breakthroughs. Each of the book's five sections opens with Fredrickson's stories, both personal and scientific, that paved the way to each successive breakthrough. Her stories feature her mentors, her community of scientific peers, her students, her serendipitous discoveries, as well as her motivations for sharing her discoveries outside of academia for lifelong learners seeking evidence-based paths to happiness. Reflecting on a career that has thus far spanned four decades, Fredrickson also shares lessons learned along the way regarding scientific methods and career development and candidly conveys for early-career scholars what she'd do differently if she were starting out today. Each section culminates by reprinting excerpts from three key articles that Fredrickson curated to best illustrate the scope of her and her teams' contributions. Taken together, these fifteen key scientific contributions solidify positive emotions as the tiny engines that drive human flourishing.

I LOVE 2.0 tar Barbara L. Fredrickson oss med på en vitenskapelig rundtur gjennom kroppen på jakt etter kjærligheten. Ikke for å dissekere den, men for å lære oss å bli flinkere til å dyrke den. Fredrickson viser hvordan ny forskning har snudd opp ned på mange av våre vante forestillinger om hva kjærlighet egentlig er. Hun tegner et lettfattelig bilde av hvordan kjærlighet påvirker vår helse, energi og velvære på konkrete, vitenskapelige målbare, og bokstavelig talt livsviktige måter. Deretter bruker hun denne nye kunnskapen til å etablere en rekke konkrete verktøy som vil hjelpe deg å skape mer - mye mer - kjærlighet i ditt liv. Det er på høy tid å oppgradere synet på kjærlighet. Når du forstår hva som får den til å blomstre, kan du oppleve kjærlighet hver dag!

Hvordan kan positiv psykologi bruges pædagogisk? Hvordan kan positiv psykologi skabe optimale læringsmiljøer? Positiv psykologi sætter fokus på glæde, trivsel, lykke og det gode liv.Antologien præsenterer den positive psykologis bagvedliggende teori og de deraf følgende pædagogiske implikationer i forhold til optimale læringsmiljøer, ledelse, undervisning, læring og arbejdsliv. Antologien henvender sig primært til lærere, pædagoger, psykologer, ledere og studerende.