英语优美的经典美文赏析 我们在学习英语的作文的时候可以适当的去找一些有的美文来看看哦，今天就给大家分享一下英语美文欣赏，欢迎大家参考 A new book argues that the emotion happens in micro-moments of positivity resonance. Paramount Pictures In her new book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Bee, the psychologist Barbara Fredrickson offers a radically new conception of love. Fredrickson, a leading researcher of positive emotions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presents scientific evidence to argue that love is not what we think it is. It is not a long-lasting, continually present emotion that sustains a marriage; it is not the yearning and passion that characterizes young love; and it is not the blood-tie of kinship. Rather, it is what she calls a micro-moment of positivity resonance. She means that love is a connection, characterized by a flood of positive emotions, which you share with another personany other personwhom you happen to connect with in the course of your day. You can experience these micro-moments with your romantic partner, child, or close friend. But you can also fall in love, however momentarily, with less likely candidates, like a stranger on the street, a colleague at work, or an attendant at a grocery store. Louis Armstrong put it best in Its a Wonderful World when he sang, I see friends shaking hands, sayin how do you do? / Theyre really sayin, I love you. Fredricksons unconventional ideas are important to think about at this time of year. With Valentines Day around the corner, many Americans are facing a grim reality: They are love-starved. Rates of loneliness are on the rise as social supports are disintegrating. In 1985, when the General Social Survey polledAmericans on the number of confidants they have in their lives, the most mon response was three. In xx, when the survey was given again, the most mon response was zero. Aording to the University of Chicagos John Cacioppo, an expert on loneliness, and his co-author William Patrick, at any given time, roughly 20 percent of individualsthat would be 60 million people in the U.S. alonefeel sufficiently isolated for it to be a major source of unhappiness in their lives. For older Americans, that number is closer to 35 percent. At the same time, rates of depression have been on the rise. In his xx book Flourish, the psychologist Martin Seligman notes that aording to some estimates, depression is 10 times more prevalent now than it was five decades ago. Depression affects about 10 percent of the American population, aording to the Centers for Disease Control. A global poll taken last Valentines Day showed that most married peopleor those with a significant otherlist their romantic partner as the greatest source of happiness in their lives. Aording to the same poll, nearly half of all single people are looking for a romantic partner, saying that finding a special person to love would contribute greatly to their happiness. But to Fredrickson, these numbers reveal a worldwide collapse of imagination, as she writes in her book. Thinking of love purely as romance or mitment that you share with one special personas it appears most on earth dosurely limits the health and happiness you derive from love. My conception of love, she _s me, gives hope to people who are single or divorced or widowed this Valentines Day to find smaller ways to experience love. You have to physically be with the person to experience the micro-moment. For example, if you and your significant other are not physically togetherif you are reading this at work alone in your officethen you two are not in love. You may feel connected or bonded to your partneryou may long to be in his panybut your body is pletely loveless. To understand why, its important to see how love works biologically. Like all emotions, love has a biochemical and physiological ponent. But unlike some of the other positive emotions, like joy or happiness, love cannot be kindled individuallyit only exists in the physical connection between two people. Specifically, there are three players in the biological love systemmirror neurons, oxytocin, and vagal tone. Each involves connection and each contributes to those micro-moment of positivity resonance that Fredrickson calls love. When you experience love, your brain mirrors the persons you are connecting with in a special way. Pioneering research by Princeton Universitys Uri Hasson shows what happens inside the brains of two people who connect in conversation. Because brains are scanned inside of noisy fMRI machines, where carrying on a conversation is nearly impossible, Hassons team had his subjects mimic a natural conversation in an ingenious way. They recorded a young woman _ing a lively, long, and circuitous story about her high school prom. Then, they played the recording for the participants in the study, who were listening to it