Brain Pickings
Maria Popova
We kick-started the year with some of history’s most beautiful definitions of love.
But timeless as their words might be, the poets and the philosophers
have a way of escaping into the comfortable detachment of the abstract
and the metaphysical, leaving open the question of what love really is
on an unglamorously physical, bodily, neurobiological level — and how
that might shape our experience of those lofty abstractions. That’s
precisely what psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, who has been studying positive emotions for decades, explores in the unfortunately titled but otherwise excellent Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become (UK; public library).
Using both data from her own lab and ample citations of other studies,
Fredrickson dissects the mechanisms of love to reveal both its
mythologies and its practical mechanics.
Read more
Maria Popova
The neurobiology of how the warmest emotion blurs the boundaries by you and not-you.
We kick-started the year with some of history’s most beautiful definitions of love.
But timeless as their words might be, the poets and the philosophers
have a way of escaping into the comfortable detachment of the abstract
and the metaphysical, leaving open the question of what love really is
on an unglamorously physical, bodily, neurobiological level — and how
that might shape our experience of those lofty abstractions. That’s
precisely what psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, who has been studying positive emotions for decades, explores in the unfortunately titled but otherwise excellent Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become (UK; public library).
Using both data from her own lab and ample citations of other studies,
Fredrickson dissects the mechanisms of love to reveal both its
mythologies and its practical mechanics.Read more
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