8 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, May 15, 2000
Mommy Dearest
Prof awarded largest
psychology prize ever
By Rachael Smith
Daily Staff Reporter
Assistant Professor of Psychology'Barbara Fredrickson has
recently won the largest psychology award in history. The
S 10,0100 award is given by the Johnt Templeton Foundation for
research in positive psychology, the American Psychological
Association reported in its publication The Monitor.
This is an honor beyond my wildest dreams," Fredrickson
said in a written statement last Friday.
Fredrickson described her research as "a new model to
describe the fortm and function of positive emotions as dis-
tinct from negative emotions."
The possibility of such an award was first introduced through
the research of past APA President Martin Seligman, the
Monitor reported. Seligman chaired the committee for the
selection of this year's winners, which included Fredrickson.
"Psychology for so long has been centered on curing ills,"
Seligman told the Monitor. "What's always been missing is
the incentive to go into the field (of positive psychology).
This prize is intended to encourage the brightest young peo-
ple to move their research in this direction."
Fredrickson's work has largely focused on the response to
positive emotions.
"Most previous emotion researchers use the same theoret-
ical framework to understand both" positive and negative
emotions, she said. This framework links "each specific etno-
tion's form and function to specific action tendencies.
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Ann Arbor Resident Ann Munster (left) takes her mother Marjorie out yesterday
for Mother's Day. They went out to lunch and a concert.
"Instead of promoting some specific action, I've argued
that positive emotions broaden people's ideas about action
Fredrickson said. "Through broadening, people discover and
build new and lasting personal resources."
For example, Fredrickson said, joy is an ettotion that can
lead to playfulness, which can build lasting friendships.
These friendships "become sources of social support."
This model, which Fredrickson terms the "broaden and
build model of emotions," explains "why we have positive
emotions, and how we might improve our lives by cultivating
more of them:
The Templeton Award was created to "support and reward
groundbreaking research in the area of positive psychology",
the APA said in the Monitor. "Winners must show outstan -
ing promise not only (in their field of research), but in ar
such as goal-setting and future-mindedness"
Templeton, a former Rhodes scholar, hopes "the grant will
significantly increase the number of scientific studies in
these understudied areas (of positive psychology)," the APA
said.
Dr. Patricia Gurin, professor and chair of the University
psychology department, said the Templeton Award "reflects
the national significance of positive psychology."
"It'is very important for the field that (Fredrickson) has
won this award," said Gurin. "The positive psychol*
approach is quite new. That (Fredrickson) has won (t e
award) is extraordinarily significant." Gurin also noted that
Fredrickson has been tenured this year.
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