Barbara Fredrickson

Barbara Fredrickson is professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina. Her latest book is Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become (2013).

Written by Barbara Fredrickson

A young girl with pigtails asleep on an adult’s shoulder at night, with blurred city lights in the background.

essayLove and friendship

The science of love

We each carry an intricate machinery of love, calibrating and attuning our moods and bodies to one another

Barbara Fredrickson