Paul Plonski, a psychological sciences graduate student in the 2016–2018 cohort, will be presenting his thesis titled “Comparing Satipaṭṭhāna-style Mindfulness and Progressive Relaxation Meditation on Neural Responses to Disgust and Unpleasant Emotion” this week.
His research explores whether brief training in Early Buddhist mindfulness practices, compared to a structurally equivalent progressive muscle relaxation training, will affect a neural marker of emotional arousal (known as the Late Positive Potential) to disgusting and non-disgusting unpleasant visual… Read more
