Abigail Marsh

Abigail Marsh is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and conducted post-doctoral research at the National Institute of Mental Health. She's currently the President of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. Her research is aimed at answering the questions, How do we understand what others think and feel? What drives us to help other people? What prevents us from harming them? She uses functional and structural brain imaging as well as behavioral, cognitive, genetic, and pharmacological techniques to answer these questions, and she has more than 80 publications in journals that include Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, Psychological Science, and JAMA Psychiatry. She's also authored articles for The Washington Post, NPR, Psychology Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her research has received awards that include the Cozzarelli Prize for scientific excellence and originality from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The S&R Kuno Award for Applied Science for the Social Good, and the Richard J. Wyatt Fellowship award for translational research from the NIMH. She serves on the advisory boards of the National Kidney Donation Organization and 1Day Sooner, and is the co-founder of Psychopathy Is.