Love in a Mobile Device? Positive Psychology App in Development for Barbara Fredrickson’s Love 2.0

NEW YORK - March 3, 2015 - PRLog -- Barbara Fredrickson, world-renowned author and President Elect of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), is partnering with Ran Zilca’s Intrinsic Mobile to develop the official Love 2.0 mobile app. The app, due out this summer, enables people to uncover what Fredrickson calls “micro-moments of positivity resonance” for better health and happiness.

The Love 2.0 mobile app will offer daily programs, including loving-kindness meditation and other exercises that have been developed jointly by University of North Carolina’s Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology (PEP) Lab and Intrinsic Mobile.


Ran Zilca’s latest personal transformation company, Intrinsic Mobile, is developing the Love 2.0 mobile app. By collaborating with some of the most brilliant minds in the positive psychology field, Intrinsic Mobile helps people drive positive behavior change by following scientifically-validated daily exercises.

The app dovetails coursework in Dr. Fredrickson’s highly popular Positive Psychology class on Coursera where she discusses the force of co-experienced positive emotions and lab-tested loving kindness. https://www.coursera.org/course/positivepsych

The app is slated for release in Summer 2015. People can sign up now to be notified once the Love 2.0 mobile app is available for download at: http://intrinsicmobile.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9c...

About Dr. Barbara Fredrickson

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (http://www.positivityresonance.com) has been advancing the science of positive emotions for more than 25 years. She is currently President Elect of the International Positive Psychology Association and Kenan Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she holds appointments in psychology and business and directs the PEP Lab. She has authored 120+ peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and her books, Positivity and Love 2.0 have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Dr. Fredrickson’s award-winning research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, reveals how micro-moments of love and other forms of positivity nourish your health, wisdom, and longevity. As one of the most highly-cited contributors to psychological science, Dr. Fredrickson is best known for her broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. It describes how your positive emotions were sculpted by the discerning chisel of Darwinian natural selection to serve as life-giving nutrients for growth.

About Ran Zilca
Ran Zilca, CEO of Intrinsic Mobile and author of Ride Of Your Life, is a research scientist and entrepreneur who pioneered the development of mobile behavioral interventions and transformative technologies. He is a veteran of leadership and R&D teams in government and industry ranging from data science to core algorithmic research, and the founder of Signal Patterns (acquired by bLife, Inc). As a research scientist and entrepreneur, Ran has collaborated closely with scientists and partners like Sonja Lyubomirsky, Phil Zimbardo, Stephen Covey, and Deepak Chopra.