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Contemplative Psychophysiology Lab
Rob completed his PhD in Social Psychology under the guidance of Dr. Kirk Warren Brown at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA in 2014. His research examines the neurological, behavioral, and psychosocial consequences of mindfulness. Rob examines the interplay between mindfulness and several core psychological processes, such as emotion, and memory. For example, how does mindfulness influence the way people experience and regulate emotions? Does mindfulness affect the content and accuracy of episodic memory? Could mindfulness training be applied to treat age-related memory decline? Rob’s research takes a social and affective neuroscience approach to address these questions across several levels of analysis using electroencephalography (EEG), event and experience sampling, and other behavioral markers. In his free time, Rob enjoys ultralight backpacking.
PhD - Social Psychology
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014
Robert J. Goodman
Lab Director
Research Collaborators
Current Graduate Students
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Dylan Beach
Josh Demakovsky
Allison Urias
Benjamin Bush
Taylor Pondy
Kaila Vansumer
Paul Plonski
BS - Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Paul received a BS in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, and is now a student in NAU's Psychological Science Master's program. Paul's research explores the roles of mindfulness and empathy in reducing prejudice and dehumanization. His thesis research explores how improvements in emotion regulation related to mindfulness may reduce neurological indicators of disgust reactivity, and how this mindfulness-related modulation of the disgust response may translate into downstream egalitarian attitudes and reduced outgroup prejudice.
Spring 2016 Lab Photo
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