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Overview

Abigail A. Marsh is a researcher affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their academic work spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology and neuroscience.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Their research delves into specific subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Health

The topics covered in their publications highlight thematic interests in:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Oxytocin and the Neurobiology of Prosocial Behavior, 2020, The Neuroscientist
  • Reduced social distancing early in the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with antisocial behaviors in an online United States sample, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism, 2021, Psychological Science
  • Activation in bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) corresponds to everyday helping, 2020, Cortex
  • Acute anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with higher levels of everyday altruism, 2022, Scientific Reports

Frequent publication venues for Abigail A. Marsh include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Personality Disorders
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • The Neuroscientist

They often collaborate with a group of coauthors, notably including:

  • Kathryn Berluti
  • Shawn A Rhoads
  • Elise M. Cardinale
  • Montana L. Ploe
  • Katherine O'Connell

Best Publications

  • Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: a meta-analysis.

    Abigail A. Marsh;R.J.R. Blair

  • Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolescents With Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders

    Abigail A. Marsh;Elizabeth C. Finger;Derek G.V. Mitchell;Marguerite E. Reid

  • The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors.

    Abigail A. Marsh;Nalini Ambady;Robert E. Kleck

  • Abnormal ventromedial prefrontal cortex function in children with psychopathic traits during reversal learning.

    Elizabeth C. Finger;Abigail A. Marsh;Derek G. Mitchell;Marguerite E. Reid

  • Accurate identification of fear facial expressions predicts prosocial behavior.

    Abigail A. Marsh;Megan N. Kozak;Nalini Ambady

  • Oxytocin improves specific recognition of positive facial expressions

    Abigail A. Marsh;Abigail A. Marsh;Henry H. Yu;Daniel S. Pine;R. J. R. Blair

  • Empathic Responsiveness in Amygdala and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Youths with Psychopathic Traits.

    Abigail A. Marsh;Elizabeth C. Finger;Katherine A. Fowler;Christopher J. Adalio

  • What Do I Think You're Doing? Action Identification and Mind Attribution

    Megan N. Kozak;Abigail A. Marsh;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Nonverbal “Accents”: Cultural Differences in Facial Expressions of Emotion

    Abigail A. Marsh;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Impairments in facial affect recognition associated with autism spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis.

    Leah M. Lozier;John W. Vanmeter;Abigail A. Marsh

  • Disrupted Reinforcement Signaling in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and Caudate in Youths With Conduct Disorder or Oppositional Defiant Disorder and a High Level of Psychopathic Traits

    Elizabeth C. Finger;Abigail A. Marsh;Karina S. Blair;Marguerite E. Reid

  • Why Do Fear and Anger Look the Way They Do? Form and Social Function in Facial Expressions

    Abigail A. Marsh;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Reduced Amygdala Response in Youths With Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Psychopathic Traits: Decreased Emotional Response Versus Increased Top-Down Attention to Nonemotional Features

    Stuart F. White;Abigail A. Marsh;Abigail A. Marsh;Abigail A. Marsh;Katherine A. Fowler;Katherine A. Fowler;Katherine A. Fowler;Julia C. Schechter;Julia C. Schechter;Julia C. Schechter

  • Mediation of the relationship between callous-unemotional traits and proactive aggression by amygdala response to fear among children with conduct problems

    Leah M. Lozier;Elise M. Cardinale;John W. VanMeter;Abigail A. Marsh

  • Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists

    Abigail A. Marsh;Sarah A. Stoycos;Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz;Paul Robinson

  • Emotional intelligence and the recognition of emotion from facial expressions.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Abigail A. Marsh;Nalini Ambady

  • Reduced amygdala–orbitofrontal connectivity during moral judgments in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits

    Abigail A. Marsh;Abigail A. Marsh;Elizabeth C. Finger;Katherine A. Fowler;Ilana T.N. Jurkowitz

  • Choosing the lesser of two evils, the better of two goods: specifying the roles of ventromedial prefrontal cortex and dorsal anterior cingulate in object choice.

    Karina Blair;Abigail A. Marsh;John Morton;Meena Vythilingam

  • The Caring Continuum: Evolved Hormonal and Proximal Mechanisms Explain Prosocial and Antisocial Extremes

    Abigail A Marsh

  • Caught in the act: the impact of audience on the neural response to morally and socially inappropriate behavior.

    Elizabeth C. Finger;Abigail A. Marsh;Niveen Kamel;Derek G. V. Mitchell

  • The Reliability and Validity of the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits: A Meta-Analytic Review.

    Elise M Cardinale;Abigail A Marsh

  • Dominance and submission: The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and responses to status cues

    Abigail A. Marsh;Karina S. Blair;Matthew M. Jones;Niveen Soliman

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Rebecca Ryan
Rebecca Ryan Georgetown University
Derek G.V. Mitchell
Derek G.V. Mitchell University of Western Ontario
Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Hillary Anger Elfenbein Washington University in St. Louis
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Pilyoung Kim
Pilyoung Kim University of Denver
Robert E. Kleck
Robert E. Kleck Dartmouth College
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago

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