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 stimuli.
The presentation, given on Thursday, November 8, from 1–3 pm in the Department of Psychological Sciences’ conference room (Building 60, room 302), is open to the public.