{"id":996,"date":"2018-11-05T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/psychological-sciences\/?p=996"},"modified":"2018-11-05T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:03:19","slug":"paul-plonski-defends-thesis-on-nov-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/paul-plonski-defends-thesis-on-nov-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Plonski Defends Thesis on Nov. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Plonski, a psychological sciences graduate student in the 2016\u20132018 cohort, will be presenting his thesis titled &#8220;<em>Comparing\u00a0Satipa\u1e6d\u1e6dh\u0101na-style Mindfulness and Progressive Relaxation Meditation on Neural Responses to Disgust and Unpleasant Emotion<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-997 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/353\/2018\/11\/nau-students-taking-part-in-brainwave-study-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/353\/2018\/11\/nau-students-taking-part-in-brainwave-study-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/353\/2018\/11\/nau-students-taking-part-in-brainwave-study-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/353\/2018\/11\/nau-students-taking-part-in-brainwave-study-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation, given on Thursday, November 8, from 1\u20133 pm in the Department of Psychological Sciences&#8217; conference room (Building 60, room 302), is open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Plonski, a psychological sciences graduate student in the 2016\u20132018 cohort, will be presenting his thesis titled &#8220;Comparing\u00a0Satipa\u1e6d\u1e6dh\u0101na-style Mindfulness and Progressive Relaxation Meditation on Neural Responses to Disgust and Unpleasant Emotion&#8221;\u00a0this week. His research explores whether brief training in Early Buddhist mindfulness practices, compared to a structurally equivalent progressive muscle relaxation training, will affect a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"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":[9,24],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-thesis","tag-contemplative-psychophysiology-research-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}