Barbara Fredrickson

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 examples of connections that people make are able to have a resonating impact on them. This resonance can be used to explain different social phenomena such as the use of technology in communication and the standardization of education. The feeling

When people share similar experiences that resonate with them in a myriad of ways, social change occurs.The need for change happens when people desire a change in a certain aspect of society. Which is why resonance can explain different social phenomena such as standardized education and social media. An example of this a resonating impact is explored in Davidsons essay when she says “ When I was in school, my talents had been math and writing, and there was a teacher, Miss Schmidt, who saw those gifts, despite my abysmal test scores, despite the fact that we had to memorize the preamble to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address to graduate from the eighth grade and I just couldn’t” (63). This experience negatively resonated with Davidson and made her question her intelligence. However, she used this negative experience as a motivation to create a positive change in the educational system. Consequently, the shared positivity resonance that Davidson had with her teacher, Miss Schmidt left her with positive emotions. As Fredrickson describes in her essay “ But in those rare moments when you truly connect with someone else over positivity-by sharing a smile, a laugh, a common passion of an engaging story-you become attuned, with genuine care and concern for the other. You empathize with what they’re going through, as your two brains sync up and act as one, as a unified

Social media provided people with a mean that they can use to strengthen their connection with people they care about. It also facilitated connections to people that were not possible before. People now can connect with societies from all over the world and are able to be impacted by those connections. This made it easier for people who share similar ideas and problems to communicate with each other. As Davidson explains in her essay “Indisputably, the imagination is engaged in making connections in all of those forms, as it is in anything we experience. It is engaged in a different way when we ourselves are making the connections when we’re browsing from one to another link that interests us and draws our attention” (55). Social media made it easier for people to satisfy their need for communication with others. As social beings, humans like to connect with each other; it is how they develop empathy towards others. As Fredrickson explains in her essay “As you interact with one person after another, they gently nudge you to attend to these others more closely and forge connections when possible. They shape your motives and behaviors in subtle ways, yet ultimately, their actions serve to strengthen your relationships and knit you closer to the social fabric of life” (110). Now social media websites or applications serve as pathways