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Amy L. Collins is a research psychologist and certified yoga instructor focused on relationships among aging, health and psychological well-being. Amy received a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Boston College and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She was an American Association of Retired Persons Scholar and a Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow at the National Academies of Science. Amy’s dissertation research examined the relationship between daily activities and emotional experience in older adults. As a postdoctoral researcher, she led several studies on how cognitive and emotional evaluations of life, like level of life satisfaction, optimism, and perceived social status, are related to morbidity and mortality.