REU Site: Hojooba' bee la' hooniil, Undergraduate Studies into the Social Psychophysiology of Compassion

REU 网站：Hojooba bee la hooniil，同情心社会心理生理学本科研究

• 批准号: 1263396
• 负责人: Larry Stevens
• 金额: $ 38.04万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-15 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263396&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Hojooba; bee; la

This project represents an enhancement of a previously funded (2010-12) REU Site program with the thematic focus on Undergraduate Studies into the Social Psychophysiology of Compassion (SPC) in the Department of Psychology at the Northern Arizona University. It builds upon a successful legacy of this university's prior REU Site by providing research experiences for 8 Native American, Hispanic, African American, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students, including first generation college/university students who are disabled, female, White, and Veterans. Each student conducts research focused on Compassion, under guidance of active Psychology Department researchers. The PI-team continues the previously successful program with significant improvements and an increased recruitment of primarily Native American community college students. Intellectual Merit:This research internship addresses 8 important intellectual components: (1) Direct, closely supervised, hands-on original research experiences in individual faculty laboratories provided by an experienced, productive, and stimulating faculty research mentor, (2) Faculty seminars on various aspects of scientific research, (3) Professional, educational, cultural, and career development seminars, (4) Weekly noon science symposia, (5) A variety of unique educational, cultural, environmental, and social activities, (6) Student presentations at a local professional REU conference, (7) Presentation of research outcomes at national professional conferences, and (8) Co-participation of Psychology REU students with REU students from other programs in seminars, lectures, and local research presentations. Students thus participate collegially in original and pioneering compassion research.Broader Impacts: This program has far-reaching implications for both the expansion of scientific thinking and inquiry and the advancement of society. (1) Direct recruitment of underrepresented minority students via live campus visits and presentations, innovative college liaisons toward increased engagement of underserved minorities in research, and onsite research and educational collaborations of minority students and faculty greatly broadens participation of under-represented minorities in social science research. Tangible research outcomes, student presentations at professional meetings, research mentoring, and collegial group sharing of the research process developed over a 10-week summer session and continuing into the AY give each student a sense of ownership in a scientific project and process, and a personalization of the experience to facilitate continued careers in science. (2) Intensive collaboration with dedicated career academic researchers and teaching during weekly seminars by undergraduate students from diverse cultural backgrounds is very likely to instill a lasting excitement for science in general and for the SPC specialty areas in particular, thus advancing creative discovery while simultaneously promoting cross-fertilization of scientific exploration, knowledge acquisition, skills training, and a commitment to the art of teaching and research. (3) Utilization of existing educational training facilities for summer internships enhances the university?s research and educational infrastructure. (4) Participation of interns and mentors in interdisciplinary seminars, workshops, research, education, and national conferences broadens dissemination and enhances interdisciplinary scientific understanding. (5) The proposed innovative and comprehensive analysis of this REU program allows for a yearly evaluation and fine-tuning to better achieve objectives and to improve the future identification, training, and development of behavioral research scientists in this country. Most importantly, and perhaps most uniquely for our program, (6) the research projects and thematic focus on compassion offer important answers to probing societal questions and ultimate benefits to society, and, we hope, the development of a generation of young researchers whose careers are dedicated to the understanding and creation of the expression of compassion, the easing of suffering of others, and the promotion of a more compassionate world.

该项目是对之前资助的(2010-12年度)REU现场计划的加强，其主题是北亚利桑那大学心理学系的本科生学习同情的社会心理生理学(SPC)。它建立在这所大学以前的REU网站的成功遗产的基础上，为8名美国原住民、西班牙裔、非裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民和夏威夷/太平洋岛民原住民提供研究经验，包括第一代学院/大学的残疾学生、女性、白人和退伍军人。每个学生在积极心理学系研究人员的指导下，进行以同情为重点的研究。PI-Team继续之前成功的项目，有了显著的改进，并增加了主要是美国原住民社区大学学生的招生。智力价值：本次研究实习涉及8个重要的智力部分：(1)由经验丰富、富有成效和激励作用的教师研究导师在个别教师实验室提供直接、密切监督、亲身实践的原创研究经验，(2)学院关于科学研究各个方面的研讨会，(3)专业、教育、文化和职业发展研讨会，(4)每周中午科学研讨会，(5)各种独特的教育、文化、环境和社会活动，(6)学生在当地的REU专业会议上发表演讲，(7)在国家专业会议上展示研究成果，以及(8)心理学REU学生与其他REU项目的学生共同参加研讨会、讲座和本地研究报告。这样，学生就可以共同参与原创性和开创性的同情心研究。更广泛的影响：这个项目对扩大科学思维和探究以及社会进步都有深远的影响。(1)通过校园现场访问和演讲直接招收未被充分代表的少数群体学生，通过创新的大学联络以增加未得到充分服务的少数群体参与研究，以及少数群体学生和教员的现场研究和教育合作，极大地扩大了未被充分代表的少数群体参与社会科学研究的范围。实实在在的研究成果，学生在专业会议上的陈述，研究指导，以及在为期10周的夏季课程中发展并持续到AY的研究过程的合议组分享，使每个学生对科学项目和过程有一种主人翁意识，并使经验个性化，以促进科学事业的继续发展。(2)与敬业的学术研究人员密切合作，并由来自不同文化背景的本科生在每周研讨会上授课，很可能会为整个科学特别是SPC专业领域注入持久的兴奋，从而促进创造性的发现，同时促进科学探索、知识获取、技能培训以及对教学和研究艺术的承诺。(3)利用现有的教育培训设施进行暑期实习，加强了S大学的研究和教育基础设施。(4)实习生和导师参加跨学科研讨会、讲习班、研究、教育和国家会议，扩大传播，增进跨学科的科学理解。(5)对这一REU计划提出的创新和全面的分析允许进行年度评估和微调，以更好地实现目标，并改善该国行为研究科学家未来的识别、培训和发展。最重要的是，也许对我们的项目来说也是最独特的，(6)研究项目和对同情的主题关注为探索社会问题和最终对社会的好处提供了重要的答案，我们希望，发展一代年轻的研究人员，他们的职业生涯致力于理解和创造同情的表达，减轻他人的痛苦，并促进一个更富有同情心的世界。