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Years of individual difference and lifespan development research have framed optimism\u2014the tendency to expect positive things in the future\u2014as an asset that protects against physical and cognitive decline. There is also an assumption that optimism is a purely individual resource, originating from people alone, irrespective of their environments. In this talk, Chopik will revisit these approaches and provide some evidence that people are optimistic even when they shouldn\u2019t be, how the optimism of other people affects us, and how where you live might alter how you think about the future. The goal of this session is to give you a crash course on optimism and where it comes from\u2014topics that expand our understanding of health and resilience and should be of interest to everyone, even if you\u2019re a pessimist at heart.\r\n\r\nDr. Chopik is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. 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All are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend.\r\n\r\nAdvance registration is recommended.\r\n\r\nRegister to attend in person: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/AZjJG\r\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/RmG6y\r\n\r\nMeet the Panelists\r\n\r\nTara Fickle is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Her first book, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities, (NYU Press, 2019, winner of Before Columbus Foundation\u2019s American Book Award), explores how games have been used to establish and combat Asian and Asian American racial stereotypes. Fickle\u2019s current research projects include the racialized dimensions of esports, virtual currency harvesting in video games, and a digital archive of the canonical Asian American anthology, Aiiieeeee! 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He has authored three books\u2014Jackie Chan\u2019s New York Times bestselling memoir I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action; Once Upon a Time in China, a history of the cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Mainland; and Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture, and most recently coauthored the New York Times bestselling RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now. \r\n\r\nMeet The Moderator\r\n\r\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 1994, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. 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