{"id":1106,"date":"2018-11-29T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/psychological-sciences\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2018-11-29T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:03:22","slug":"paul-plonski-successfully-defends-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/paul-plonski-successfully-defends-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Plonski Successfully Defends Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Plonski is a graduating master\u2019s student in the Department of Psychological Sciences.\u00a0 Since his arrival at NAU, Paul has set high standards for himself, the integrity of his scientific research, and his peers.\u00a0He helped to design and lead a randomized controlled trial that explored the effects of mindfulness training on neural markers of emotion regulation and memory among older adults in the Flagstaff community, a project that became the foundation of his thesis.\u00a0 While he could have graduated in the spring, Paul made a principled decision to take an extra semester so he could provide adequate\u00a0statistical power for his analyses.\u00a0 His approach to data preparation and analysis was of equal integrity.\u00a0 Paul successfully defended his thesis on November 8, 2018, and is\u00a0slated to publish his work in a peer-review scientific journal in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Plonski is a graduating master\u2019s student in the Department of Psychological Sciences.\u00a0 Since his arrival at NAU, Paul has set high standards for himself, the integrity of his scientific research, and his peers.\u00a0He helped to design and lead a randomized controlled trial that explored the effects of mindfulness training on neural markers of emotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-accomplishments","category-thesis","tag-contemplative-psychophysiology-research-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}