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. NORMAN NG/Daily 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. 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