tranquility, confidence, pride, motivation, wonder, appreciation, interest, enjoyment, and love. Positivity by Barbara L. Fredrickson is a self-help book built on thorough research of Positive Psychology. This book was very influential and allows one to do self-assessment. It holds various concepts which deeply refer to positivity vs. negativity. The first concept developed by Dr. Fredrickson is labeled “Broaden-and-Build Theory”, which is an essential and common theory in psychology. This theory describes
Barbara Fredrickson challenges many of the preconceptions we have about love in “Selections from Love 2.0” of the New Humanities Reader. Love is traditionally thought of as being the connection which is shared only with the people closest to you like, your family or your wife. Fredrickson refutes this and even says that love isn’t “exclusive lasting or unconditional” and dismisses these as wishes that people have about love. She believes that in order for all of us to truly understand love, we shouldn't
As social beings, humans urge the need of communication with others. It is how they are able to impact and be impacted by the people around them. In Barbara Fredrickson’s essay “Selections from Love 2.0”, Fredrickson talks about how the importance of communication in people’s lives, and how as she puts it “positivity resonance lies in the action, the doing, the connecting” (109). Examples of communication can be found In Cathy Davidson's essay “Project Classroom Makeover”, where Davidson gives
Choices face us every day. Some are simple. For example, things we are aware of consciously. However, there are some choices we make that are significantly more important, but we do not realize what they are. One of these choices is the attitude we will have. What some people do not know is this simple choice of attitude affects how we view the world, and how the world views us. The attitude we have can determine whether we fail or have success. When we fail, most times it is because we did not have
Barbara Fredrickson, “Selection from Love 2.0” and outside research In The New Humanities Reader edited by Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. We read about Barbara Fredrickson the author of the book “Love 2.0” copy right (2013). Barbara Fredrickson is a psychologist who show in her research how our supreme emotion affects everything we Feel, Think, Do and become. Barbara also uses her research from her lab to describe her ideas about love. She defines love not as a romance or stable emotion
chemistry, as in a certain attraction, needed between two individuals who are in love but Barbara Fredrickson is able to coordinate the definition of love on the basis of chemicals. Barbara Fredrickson is able to provide the definition of love on the deductive reasoning based on chemistry, biology, and neurology explained in Love 2.0: How our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything we Feel, Think, Do, and Become. As Barbara explains "With each micro-moment of love, then, you climb another rung on the spiraling
don’t hurt me, no more”. The 1993 classic’s catchy hook may sound nice but has layers of sophisticated meaning. Like this hip single, much of mainstream music depicts love as a romantic, usually lustful, relationship between two individuals. Barbara Fredrickson brings to the forefront the idea that love may actually be much more. The notion of love
The Science of Love Within Selections from “Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become”, Barbara Fredrickson puts forth that love is a concept that is less of an abstract concept and actually more physical. Frederickson challenges the notion that love comes from vague ideas, such as “from the heart” or “from the soul,” and instead comes from a more worldly cause. Frederickson studies love under a close look in biological terms, challenging and subverting
paper or speech, but in the end, what matters most? The most intelligent person on Earth may be able to recall any fact, but if they are not well-written or well-spoken they cannot capture the attention of the everyday person. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, the author of Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, is knowledgeable about her field of study, the positivity of love on the body, yet she is unable to properly get her point across
in the power of love. Many people associate the meaning of love with feelings of strong affection and personal attachment. While this is very accurate, there are several different aspects of love that we neglect to acknowledge. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson steps up and takes up this challenge in convergence with the magic of science. In doing so, she concludes that the things in which our brain thinks love is, are actually just the products of love. Love itself is something much greater and it
In the book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, Barbara Fredrickson discusses the biological aspects of love and the connections that people can have through interactions with each other. Fredrickson aims to increase the reader’s knowledge of how love works and she even tries to change the way people view love. She wants people to take a more static and scientific approach to connections between people rather than the emotional mystery that people
Are we losing face to face conversation? Or are we just ignoring and using more of smart phones? In essay "Your Phones vs. Your Heart" by Barbara L. Fredrickson shows many people's are losing opportunity to talk face to face, due to smart phones. she has researched the effects on our bodies when we use smart phones vs. talking face to face. The results of her study seems to indicate that human is more interactive when you share smile and laugh with someone face to face, and our body has more potential
Idealism and Realism in Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara Submerged in their own ideas about idealism and realism, Barbara and her father Undershaft are at odds with one another in Major Barbara. In this Bernard Shaw play, minor characters are important in exemplifying these conflicting values. The moral perplexities of capitalism and charity are explored through the words and actions of Undershaft’s family, his future sons-in-law, and the common folks at the Shelter. Thriving in the British upper
A Summary of Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August “The Guns of August” was written by Barbara W. Tuchman in 1962. The book details the causes of the first World war and describes the first month of the war. The book clearly illustrates how a local war became an entire European struggle by a call to war against Russia. Soon after the war became a world issue. Summary of the Book Plans The Beginning (Chapters 1-5) The book begins at the funeral procession of King Edward VII of England
Barbara Anderson's First Fieldwork Précis: “First Fieldwork” 1. Where did Barbara Anderson’s fieldwork take place and what was the goal of her research? Barbara Anderson’s fieldwork took place in the fishing village of Taarnby, Denmark on the island of Amager in the Oresund in the 50’s. The goal of her research was to publish the unseen side of fieldwork. She wanted to share the personal and professional sides of fieldwork with the reader. She went to the island to help her husband study
Comparison Between Piano Concert by Barbara Wieman and Sacramento Chamber Orchestra On Feb 20,1997, I attended a piano concert that was performed by Barbara Wieman. The performance was held at the American River College Music Department choir room. The choir room holds about 100 people and every seat was taken and students were seated on the floor. The audience was dressed casual as everyone was students trying to do their concert papers. Barbara Weiman was also dressed casual but nice
Critique of Barbara Huttman’s “A Crime of Compassion” Barbara Huttman’s “A Crime of Compassion” has many warrants yet the thesis is not qualified. This is a story that explains the struggles of being a nurse and having to make split-second decisions, whether they are right or wrong. Barbara was a nurse who was taking care of a cancer patient named Mac. Mac had wasted away to a 60-pound skeleton (95). When he walked into the hospital, he was a macho police officer who believed he could single-handedly
Account of the Travels, Sufferings and Persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone The title of Barbara Blaugdone’s memoir is An Account of the Travels, Sufferings and Persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone, with “travels” highlighted by its enormous size. Indeed, when reading the book the reader is perhaps most struck by Blaugdone’s excessive, nearly constant travel habits. It may even be argued that at its heart the book is a travel narrative and not a memoir or even a religious account. She traipses about
Symbolism of Nicknames in A Doll's House and Major Barbara The use of nicknames in literature is an important tool in which the author can provide insight into the attitudes of the characters toward each other and to provide illumination as to the nature of specific characters. Two such pieces of literature in which these attitudes and illumination can be evidenced are A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw. The attitudes of the characters in A Doll's House, more
Comparing Characters in Major Barbara and Pygmalion Andrew Undershaft and Alfred Doolittle, two characters from Bernard Shaw's plays Major Barbara and Pygmalion, have a similar nature but strikingly different views of morality and poverty. Undershaft is an "unashamed" capitalist, and nothing clouds his view of his business plans. Doolittle is a man who would much rather have a life of poverty than be troubled with the responsibility of being well-off. Although their perspectives differ, they