Second-year graduate student, Mallory Kroeck, successfully defended her Graduate Thesis Proposal on October 16, 2018 before her thesis committee, department faculty, and fellow graduate students. The title of Ms. Kroeck’s thesis project is, “Pursuing the Neurology of Compassion: An eLORETA Analysis of the Compassion Circuit.” Data collection is underway and she is currently developing the MatLab/EEGLab/eLORETA data processing code to conduct a complex FFT Power Spectral and Current Source Density analysis of the neurological characteristics of blameworthy and careworthy… Read more
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Application for PSY 279 and PSY 485 Programs is Now Online
PSY 279, PSY 485 and PSY 486C partner undergraduate students with a faculty member to work on faculty-led or student-led research projects. Students can sign up for 1–3 credit hours of PSY 279 or 485 per semester. However, only a total of 6 credit hours of individualized instruction (e.g., PSY 279, 485, 486C) can count toward the psychology major.
Our department follows an application procedure… Read more
Studying Abroad in Ireland: A Trip of a Lifetime
Eight students from Northern Arizona University — seven majoring in psychological sciences and one in education — completed an intensive course exploring the psychology of community and culture in Ireland during the summer semester. The course was taught by Eylin Palamaro-Munsell, Ph.D., a specialist in community psychology who completed her postdoctoral training in Dublin. In this 4-week, 6-credit, special topics course, students were completely immersed in the Irish context. Students attended lectures, traveled to various cultural and historical sites throughout… Read more
Psychology Club – Fall Update
Events include the Fall Festival on November 2nd and a fundraiser for Victim Witness Services of Coconino County. In addition, there are two events planned for Neuro November; we will be doing a brain dissection one night (date TBD) and we will have a neurosurgeon guest speaker coming in on November 13th at 7 PM.
Psychology Club Meeting
The next meeting of the Psychology Club will be held on Tuesday, October 23rd, in the 3rd floor conference room Student and Academic Services Building (60) at 7:00 PM.
Huffman and Wayment Awarded $1.4 Million DOD Research Grant
Dr. Ann Huffman and Dr. Heidi Wayment were recently awarded a $1.4 million Department of Defense grant for their research on Psychological Health and Resilience of Military Personnel. Previous work on the “quiet ego,” a concept developed by Wayment and Bauer in 2008, has demonstrated numerous benefits of a quiet ego, including personal growth and a greater compassion for the self and others (Wayment et al., 2015). Based on this work, Huffman and Wayment will develop a brief self-management app-based… Read more