Ep. 403: Barbara Fredrickson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Barbara Fredrickson, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and the Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina. She is a social psychologist that conducts research in emotions and positive psychology.
The topic is her book Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Inner-experiences and well being
- The undoing effect
- Positive negative ratio
- The body's definition of love
- Depression
- The idea of soul mates
- Emotional connections
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:20.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:23.1 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:31.7 | My guest today is Barbara Fredrickson. |
| 0:35.0 | She is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| 0:39.2 | She is the Keenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and is a principal investigator of the |
| 0:44.4 | positive emotions in psychophysiology lab at the University of North Carolina. |
| 0:50.9 | Fredericksson is a social psychologist who conducts research in emotions and positive psychology. |
| 0:56.0 | Her main work is related to her broadened and build theory of positive emotions, |
| 1:01.0 | which suggests that positive emotions lead to novel, expansive, or exploratory behavior, |
| 1:07.0 | and that, over time, these actions lead to meaningful, long-term resources, such as |
| 1:13.0 | knowledge and social relationships. |
| 1:16.1 | Barbara brings that perspective that 100% dovetails into my world. |
| 1:24.0 | I will take as much psychological insight, research, expertise onto this show as I can get. |
| 1:33.9 | And Barbara brings that exactly. |
| 1:36.8 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Barbara Fredrickson. |
| 1:50.8 | I've got a better handle on your world than probably most people after my homework. |
| 1:59.2 | However, I would love for you to kind of give a 37,000 foot looking down view of your life, |
| 2:01.9 | kind of your passion for what you pursue in academia. |
| 2:02.8 | But I would love for you to also kind of, where did it start? |
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