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

该项目是对先前资助的（2010-12）REU网站计划的增强，其主题重点是北方亚利桑那大学心理学系的社会心理生理学（SPC）本科研究。它建立在这所大学之前的REU网站的成功遗产的基础上，为8名美洲原住民，西班牙裔，非洲裔美国人，阿拉斯加原住民和夏威夷原住民/太平洋岛民学生提供研究经验，包括第一代学院/大学学生，他们是残疾人，女性，白色和退伍军人。每个学生都在积极的心理学系研究人员的指导下进行以Companion为重点的研究。PI团队继续以前成功的计划，并进行了重大改进，并增加了主要是美洲原住民社区大学学生的招聘。智力优点：这项研究实习涉及8个重要的智力组成部分：（1）由经验丰富，富有成效和激励性的教师研究导师提供的个人教师实验室的直接，密切监督，实践原始研究经验，（2）关于科学研究各个方面的教师研讨会，（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）在当地专业REU会议上的学生演讲，（7）在全国专业会议上展示研究成果，以及（8）心理学REU学生与来自其他课程的REU学生共同参与研讨会，讲座和当地研究报告。因此，学生们共同参与原创性和开创性的同情心研究。更广泛的影响：该计划对科学思维和探究的扩展以及社会的进步都具有深远的影响。(1)通过现场校园访问和演讲直接招募代表性不足的少数民族学生，创新的大学联络人，以增加服务不足的少数民族在研究中的参与，以及少数民族学生和教师的现场研究和教育合作，极大地扩大了代表性不足的少数民族在社会科学研究中的参与。tablets的研究成果，学生在专业会议，研究指导和研究过程中开发了10周的夏季会议和持续到AY的合议组共享演示文稿给每个学生在一个科学项目和过程中的主人翁感，和经验的个性化，以促进科学的持续职业生涯。(2)与来自不同文化背景的本科生每周研讨会期间的专业学术研究人员和教学的密切合作很可能为一般科学和特别是SPC专业领域注入持久的兴奋，从而促进创造性发现，同时促进科学探索，知识获取，技能培训，致力于教学和研究的艺术。(3)利用现有的教育培训设施进行暑期实习，提高了大学？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，扩大了传播范围，增进了跨学科的科学理解。(5)该REU计划的拟议创新和全面分析允许每年进行评估和微调，以更好地实现目标，并改善该国行为研究科学家的未来识别，培训和发展。最重要的是，也许对我们的计划来说最独特的是，（6）研究项目和对同情心的主题关注为探索社会问题和对社会的最终利益提供了重要的答案，我们希望，一代年轻研究人员的发展，他们的职业生涯致力于理解和创造同情心的表达，减轻他人的痛苦，以及促进一个更富有同情心的世界。

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.