Blake Piper, a Psychological Sciences major, and intern in the 2018 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program hosted at NAU, presented the results of his research at the Council on Undergraduates Research Experience for Undergraduates Symposium in Washington, D.C., on October 29, 2018.
More than 200 undergraduates and faculty mentors attended the interdisciplinary event. Blake’s was one of 16 posters presented in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences division of the event.
The NAU program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on the social psychology of compassion. Blake’s research on the manipulation of self-other differences in EEG mu-suppression through hypnotic suggestions was conducted with his faculty mentor, Chad Woodruff, Ph.D.
For more information about the REU program on compassion at NAU, please visit the webpage on the Department of Psychological Sciences website.