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. Author of the book Positivity, she delivers a lecture titled Using Positivity to Bounce Back from Inevitable Setbacks, one of the final three lectures in the public component of the Danielsen Institute’s Religious and Psychological Well-being Project. Her lecture focuses on positive emotions as the fundamental ingredient in allowing people to be resilient and bounce back from adversity. Hosted by the Danielsen Institute Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology on March 20, 2010