Li Chu received her Ph.D. in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Life-span Development Lab at Stanford Psychology and as a New Map of Life Fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity. Her research focuses on understanding conditions that elicit expansive motivation (i.e., curiosity or desire for novelties), exploring innovative ways to optimize expansive experiences (e.g., interaction with novel technologies), and seeking new ways of living for people across the life span. She is also interested in identifying ways to enhance technological acceptance and human-technology interactions in later adulthood. Her Advisor, Laura Carstensen is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity.
We designed The New Map of Life to guide us
from the world we inhabit now to a world in
which future centenarians will thrive.
To plot new options for the life course and its
many variables, we created a postdoctoral training
program and appointed an interdisciplinary team
of talented fellows, each paired with a faculty
mentor with expertise in different domains that
are core to longevity.
We challenged the fellows to question the
conventions and assumptions that are so baked
into our age-defined culture, we may not even
recognize them—or the ways in which they have
limited our vision. We find powerful evidence that
longevity holds even greater opportunities
for growth than we thought possible when we
launched our initiative. And we believe that the
very real and substantial challenges that longevity
creates for our economic and social order can be
met—but only if we take action.
https://longevity.stanford.edu/the-new-map-of-life-initiative/