509 research outputs found
Barbara Fredrickson
No full textBarbara Fredrickson, Blue Ribbon winner at the 1976 Manatee County Fair
Barbara Fredrickson
No full textBarbara Fredrickson, Blue Ribbon winner at the 1976 Manatee County Fair
An interview with Barbara Fredrickson
No full textBarbara Fredrickson answers nine questions about wellbeing research
fredrickson_online_appendix_revised – Supplemental material for Well-Being Correlates of Perceived Positivity Resonance: Evidence From Trait and Episode-Level Assessments
No full textSupplemental material, fredrickson_online_appendix_revised for Well-Being Correlates of Perceived Positivity Resonance: Evidence From Trait and Episode-Level Assessments by Brett C. Major, Khoa D. Le Nguyen, Kristjen B. Lundberg and Barbara L. Fredrickson in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
PosRes_PSPB_OSM_R2_Revised – Supplemental material for Well-Being Correlates of Perceived Positivity Resonance: Evidence From Trait and Episode-Level Assessments
No full textSupplemental material, PosRes_PSPB_OSM_R2_Revised for Well-Being Correlates of Perceived Positivity Resonance: Evidence From Trait and Episode-Level Assessments by Brett C. Major, Khoa D. Le Nguyen, Kristjen B. Lundberg and Barbara L. Fredrickson in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672211060136 – Supplemental material for More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672211060136 for More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life by Michael Prinzing, Patty Van Cappellen and Barbara L. Fredrickson in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
Positive emotions and resilience: Exploring subjective, cognitive, and physiological consequences.
No full textTheory indicates that resilient individuals are able to bounce back from stressful experiences quickly and effectively, having the capacity to flexibly adapt to changing situational demands. Few studies, however, have provided supportive empirical evidence for this theory. The present investigation seeks to do so, using a multi-method approach to examine the subjective, cognitive, and physiological qualities of psychological resilience. Toward this end, the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) is used as a framework for understanding resilience theory. Five studies explore the hypothesis that resilient people use positive emotions to rebound from, find positive meaning in, and flexibly cope with, stressful encounters. Study 1 examined the physiological characteristics associated with psychological resilience. In Study 2, cognitive appraisals were experimentally manipulated to examine their role in relation to psychological resilience and cardiovascular recovery from negative emotional arousal. Moving beyond laboratory-based stressors, Study 3 examined the role that resilience and positive emotions have in the capacity to find positive meaning in negative circumstances. In Studies 1, 2, and 3, mediational analyses revealed that the experience of positive emotions contributed, in part, to participants' ability to achieve efficient emotion regulation, demonstrated by accelerated cardiovascular recovery from negative emotional arousal (Studies 1 and 2) and by finding positive meaning in negative circumstances (Study 3). Studies 4 and 5 examined the reasons why positive emotions help low and high resilient individuals effectively recover from stressful experiences by examining the critical role that positive emotions might play in broadening coping resources (Study 4) with which to flexibly cope in times of stress (Study 5). Findings revealed that positive emotions are useful to low and high resilient individuals in different ways, which provide insights into potential developmental processes associated with psychological resilience. Implications for research on resilience and positive emotions are discussed.PhDClinical psychologyPsychologySocial psychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/128811/2/3029447.pd
Prioritizing Positivity: An effective approach to pursuing happiness?
No full textCatalino, L. I., Algoe, S. B., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2014). Prioritizing positivity: An effective approach to pursuing happiness? Emotion, 14, 1155-1161
Adapting to life's slings and arrows: Individual difference in resilience when recovering from an anticipated threat.
No full textIn response to highly negative events, people are deemed resilient if they maintain psychological stability and experience fewer mental health problems (Bonanno, Wortman, & Nesse, 2004; Fredrickson, Tugade, Waugh, & Larkin, 2003), and more positive emotions (Fredrickson et al., 2003; Folkman & Moskowitz, 2000). In my dissertation, I aim to investigate how trait resilience (as measured by the ER89; Block & Kremen, 1996) might influence recovery from negative events that are anticipated but do not in fact occur. In all studies, participants received cues that signaled an upcoming picture. The 'safety cue' signaled that the picture would be neutral. The 'threat cue' signaled that the next picture could be either aversive or neutral. My first hypothesis was that resilient people would show quicker/more complete recovery than nonresilient people in response to the neutral picture that could have been aversive (relief). Studies 1 and 3 tested and supported this hypothesis. In Study 1, a neuroimaging study in which participants' brain activation was measured, resilient participants showed less ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation (VLPFC), a region associated with emotion regulation, in response to this better-than-expected neutral picture. In study 3, participants rated their affect continuously throughout the task, and resilient participants exhibited more complete affective recovery. My second hypothesis was that this recovery effect would be influenced by anticipation processes. There was mixed evidence for this hypothesis. In Study l, nonresilient participants showed greater orbitofrontal cortex activation (OFC), a region associated with expecting punishment, in response to the threat cue. Study 2 showed that this OFC response may be linked to nonresilient people having a greater bias toward expecting the upcoming picture to be aversive. However, in Study 3, I failed to replicate this finding, and resilient and nonresilient participants did not differ in their anticipatory affect. In the conclusion, I present a model that attempts to integrate and resolve the data from these three studies to show how resilience may interact with anticipatory and recovery processes when an expected negative event does not occur. I also discuss implications of this model for other phenomena related to resilience such as fewer depressive symptoms and greater positivity.PhDBiogeochemistryBiological SciencesEarth SciencesNeurosciencesPsychologySocial psychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/125924/2/3224783.pd
2010 Biological Psychology Data: Upward spirals of the heart
No full textData set from Kok & Fredrickson (2010). Upward spirals of the heart: Autonomic flexibility, as indexed by vagal tone, reciprocally and prospectively predicts positive emotions and social connectedness. Biological Psychology, 85, 432-436
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