Julia Boehm is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Chapman University. She received her PhD from the University of California, Riverside in 2009 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Boehm’s research examines whether positive psychological characteristics such as optimism are associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes and related health behaviors. Dr. Boehm has received grants from the National Institute on Aging and the American Heart Association to investigate these topics.