LOVE 2.0

We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives.

Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments of connection between people—even strangers. She demonstrates that our capacity for experiencing love can be measured and strengthened in ways that improve our health and longevity. Finally, she introduces us to informal and formal practices to unlock love in our lives, generate compassion, and even self-soothe. Rare in its scope and ambitious in its message, Love 2.0 will reinvent how you look at and experience our most powerful emotion. Barbara Fredrickson is a Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of South Carolilna. She is a leading scholar within social psychology, affective scince, and positive psychology and the author of POSITIVY, which has sold in 14 territories. A leader in her field who has shared her research with everyone from teachers to business leaders to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Professor Fredrickson gave us POSITIVITY which laid out the forms of positivity and offered us a game plan for bringing more into our lives.