Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well at the author of Positivity (Crown, 2009).

Blog Entries by Barbara L. Fredrickson

Keep Stoking the Positivity -- Our Future Depends On It

Posted November 16, 2008 | 04:12 PM (EST)


In a presidential campaign marked by bitter and often gratuitous negativity, Barack Obama campaigned on hope, painting the possibility of a better future. Millions across the U.S. and abroad were moved by his message. Even amidst economic crisis and international turmoil, a shared sense of hope lifted and opened people's...

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