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Barbara Fredrickson



Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, is a leading scholar in social psychology, affective science, and positive psychology. Her research, centered on a “broaden-and-build” theory, reveals how micro-moments of love and other positive emotional states contribute to wisdom, resilience, health, and overall well-being.

Barbara Fredrickson
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Using Positivity to Bounce Back from Inevitable Setbacks

Barbara Fredrickson, Boston University’s 2009–2010 Templeton Fellow, is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Barbara Fredrickson
2010
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Happier Talk with Professor Barbara Fredrickson

Beyond the fact that feeling good feels good, what is the role of positive emotions? This is a question that psychology has largely ignored throughout its history focusing primarily on psychopathology, on anger, anxiety, sadness and such.

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Barbara Fredrickson
2017
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There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love (According to Science)

A new book argues that the emotion happens in “micro-moments of positivity resonance.”

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Emily Esfahani Smith
2013
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10 Things You Might Not Know About Love

Love and compassion can be the same, says psychologist Barbara Fredrickson

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Barbara Fredrickson
2013
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Barbara Fredrickson

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson studies love and a variety of other positive emotions like joy, inspiration, and pride, through the lens of social science, rooted in research studies, hypothesis, and data.

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Pursuit of Happiness
2014
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Meng-Wu Lecture: Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D.

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D., is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab (a.k.a. PEP Lab, PositiveEmotions.org) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. .

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Barbara Fredrickson
2013
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What Good Is Positivity?

Can books change people?

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Barbara L. Fredrickson
2009
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How Positive Emotions Work and Why - Barbara L. Fredrickson 21 Jun 2010

This is an archive recording from 2010, Guest lecture at Aalto University 21st June 2010.

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Barbara Fredrickson
2019
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Positive Emotions, with Barbara Fredrickson

In this brief interview segment, Megan McDonough, CEO of Wholebeing Institute, and Barbara Fredrickson, director of the PEP Lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, discuss the long-term effects of positive emotions in the context of Barbara's "broaden and build" theory.

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Barbara Fredrickson
2018
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Positivity Resonates: Barbara Fredrickson

Special lecture by psychologist Barbara Fredrickson Are the moments of positive interpersonal connection we experience positive health behaviors? Positivity resonance is a momentary affective state co-experienced by two or more people simultaneously, marked by the amplifying trio of: shared...

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Barbara Fredrickson
2018
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