Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become

QUICK OVERVIEW You probably have a definite idea of what love is. Your neighbors, friends and co-workers are also likely very confident that they know what love is. But if you each recited your descriptions of this powerful emotion it ’s unlikely that any of those definitions would match. In Love 2.0, psychologist and researcher Barbara Fredrickson examines the science of love. In so doing, she asks you to set aside preconceived ideas and consider your body’s perspective on love. Fredrickson’s book leans heavily on relationship and emotion science with an eye on the spiritual and practical aspects of love. After studying the physical effects and benefits of what she refers to as the supreme emotion, she concludes, “Its presence or absence in our lives influences everything we feel, think, do, and become.” The old notion was that “love makes the world go ‘round.” Fredrickson’s upgraded Love 2.0 affects not just your mood, but your overall health and well-being—and every connection in your life as well. Readers will learn how to tap into this emotion—a renewable resource—to improve, well, everything.